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 [...]
I’m still catching up from end of summer travel so I’ll apologize for being a bit behind in my posts. In case you are a Colorado owner and have not noticed, Garmin released version 3.0 software earlier in the week. The full list of changes, which looks a lot like sum total of what Garmin [...]
I’ve seen a number of signs lately that Garmin is probably going to discontinue the Colorado line, this is another. Amazon is selling the Garmin Colorado 400t for $299. The Colorado might not have all the bells and whistles that the Oregon does but I still think it is a better receiver and just because [...]
After recommending that Garmin Colorado owners avoid beta 2.94 because of a problem with importing GPX files, Garmin has released Colorado beta 2.95 which addresses this issue. Garmin’s release notes for 2.95 spells out fixes for two issues: Fixed issue importing GPX files introduced in 2.94 beta. Fixed issue navigating to points. Garmin also makes [...]
Update: This beta seems to fix the crash on startup after powering down with an active autoroute. It looks like beta 2.92 was not just a one-off – Garmin is continuing to migrate select features to the 18-month old Colorado. The 2.94 Colorado beta picks up the oft requested waypoint averaging tool available on the [...]
The long wait for Colorado owners who have been hoping for fixes and new features might be over. Garmin has released a modest beta release, 2.92, the first new software for the unit in any form since 2.90 was released in early December. The new beta release addresses seven or eight issues and adds one [...]
