There’s so much going on with Garmin Custom Maps right now it is hard to keep up! Here are some more tips, tools, resources and limitations we’ve learned about today that we would like to pass along. If you have discovered your own please post them here or over on the wiki discussion threads linked [...]
Edit 10/15: Updated instructions below based on improvements made in GPS Visualizer to support Garmin KMZs using Google Earth. This new post also includes instructions on how to use the GPS Visualizer overlay form to create a Garmin KMZ file, a process which bypasses Google Earth. After Garmin’s announcement yesterday about support for custom raster [...]
Ever since Garmin released Custom Map support on the Oregon, Dakota and Colorado this morning I’ve been playing around with this nifty new feature on my Garmin Oregon 550t. Below I’ll try to pass on a few tips and show some examples to get you started. First I started with a trail map for one [...]
In amongst all of the hype around Garmin’s nuLink two-way connected nuvi 1690, the Nuvifone G60 and the Oregon 300 Mushroom Edition (pdf) here’s some interesting news for Garmin outdoor GPS owners who aren’t mushroom pickers. Yesterday I ran across a new post on Garmin’s TrailTech blog called Creating Garmin Custom Maps in Five Easy [...]
Straight on the heels of a new update for its larger cousin, the Oregon 550, Garmin has given the Dakota a new set of bits with some very familiar sounding fixes. We are definitely starting to see just how similar the Oregon and Dakota product lines are. The big change is the inclusion of GPS [...]
When I first showed Garmin’s newest outdoor GPS, the Dakota, to my daughter her immediate reaction was, “Awwww, it’s a baby Oregon!” Her statement accurately captures what this new GPS from Garmin is all about; taking the features of the larger touchscreen Oregon and squeezing almost all of them into an eTrex-sized device. If you [...]
The user manual for the Dakota 10 and Dakota 20 has been published on the Garmin web site. I’ve taken a quick run through the manual and the software looks almost exactly like the Oregon minus the image/photo viewer, Wherigo, 3D View and the NMEA Spanner support. About the only difference I noticed is a [...]
