Although I’ve never completely understood the benefit of using WAAS in an outdoor handheld GPS there has been quite a bit of stir on the Oregon wiki about poor WAAS/EGNOS performance. We posted about the problems with WAAS when we first tested the Oregon 400 almost two years ago and reiterated the same concern on [...]
Over the last two days Garmin has been busy rolling new versions of BaseCamp and software for the Colorado, Oregon x00, Oregon x50 and Dakota all aimed at delivering their newest mapping product — BirdsEye. As we discussed in a previous post, BirdsEye allows users of the “state-named” Garmin GPS units to download and make [...]
Update 1/18: Garmin officially announced BirdsEye today. Availability is March 2010. Details are still a bit sketchy but it looks like Garmin is finally releasing an all-you-can-eat satellite imagery subscription called BirdsEye for their outdoor handhelds that support Garmin Custom Maps. For $30 a year Oregon, Colorado and Dakota users who install a yet to [...]
