GARMIN NUVI 250 - ADDING MAPS
Submitted: Wednesday, Feb 20, 2008 at 13:37
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Mandrake
Howdy all ,
I'm thinking of buying one of these but I can't seem to find if I can add maps to the unit on its SD card ... Read a few threads here and it seems most people attach the garmin to their laptops and run OziExplorer etc.. I already have a laptop with 2005 Natrasters and UBD .
All I want to know is can I load a Natraster map to the Garmin and walk around with it ?
I tend to wander around National parks a bit taking photos and could do with a decent non-paper map at times..
Any advice is good advice ...
Thanks in advance
Steve .
Reply By: Sand Man (SA) - Wednesday, Feb 20, 2008 at 14:12
Wednesday, Feb 20, 2008 at 14:12
In short, NO!
Raster type maps will not run on a Garmin.
You would need to obtain Tracks for Australia, shonky maps, or the recently released Oztopo2 maps.
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Reply By: Member - Doug T (FNQ) - Wednesday, Feb 20, 2008 at 14:26
Wednesday, Feb 20, 2008 at 14:26
Mandrake
Get a hold of Lothar and use the magical powers bestowed upom you and have a gabder in this .
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Follow Up By: Member - Doug T (FNQ) - Wednesday, Feb 20, 2008 at 14:28
Wednesday, Feb 20, 2008 at 14:28
Bloody hell the ol' fingers are midding the buttons today....
gabder = Gander
upom = upon
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Follow Up By: Member - Tom V (WA) - Wednesday, Feb 20, 2008 at 16:40
Wednesday, Feb 20, 2008 at 16:40
Doug T ( or should I say, D & D) had a look @ yr, GPS Info site & the new 760. seems a great unit
I am looking @ replacing my old, pocket pc, with navman installed, came free with a jeep i brought years ago.
the latest map update i can get is 2006. ??
as a lot of the maps etc are now quoting UTM, is the garmin(any model) able to convert or search in this facility. ????
from what i have seen, Magellan XL can do this, not sure about garmin. ??
can u advise. thanks Tom
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Follow Up By: Member - Doug T (FNQ) - Wednesday, Feb 20, 2008 at 17:12
Wednesday, Feb 20, 2008 at 17:12
Tom
From what I can gather NO /YES , No the Nuvi 760 only displays the the Datums as shown in the small screen shot ,
Yes UTM is shown and can be used in Mapsource City Nav' v7 but only on the PC .
The smaller Garmin Quest has Datum UTM in the unit /
I am wondering why datum is such an important feature for when h'd's works fine .
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Follow Up By: Member - Tom V (WA) - Wednesday, Feb 20, 2008 at 17:36
Wednesday, Feb 20, 2008 at 17:36
Doug
many thanks for the info.
yep agree with yr comments.
some maps i have seen & the ones put out by, western 4wheeldriver, mag over here are now in UTM. do not know enough about this technically so I'll just go with the flow or do more research.
thanks Tom
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Follow Up By: Member - Doug T (FNQ) - Wednesday, Feb 20, 2008 at 18:17
Wednesday, Feb 20, 2008 at 18:17
Tom
I think you might be referring to Paper Maps eh, yes some do I think, even the
Brisbane UBD had UTM . These GPS Units are far more advanced than you can imagine, get with it mate and lash out and get one, if you need some help email me .
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Reply By: Mandrake - Wednesday, Feb 20, 2008 at 15:06
Wednesday, Feb 20, 2008 at 15:06
Thanks for the replies - Looks like I need to save some more cash for the OzTopo maps .... sheesh !
Where is Lothar ?
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Follow Up By: Member - Doug T (FNQ) - Wednesday, Feb 20, 2008 at 17:18
Wednesday, Feb 20, 2008 at 17:18
Mandrake
Forget about Lothar. Take Narda, you should know by now the woman has control of the $$$$.
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Reply By: res.q.guy - Thursday, Feb 21, 2008 at 08:37
Thursday, Feb 21, 2008 at 08:37
Hi Steve
The only maps you can load into your Nuvi (that I am aware of), apart from genuine Garmin maps, such as City Navigator and Blue Chart etc, is Oztopo, which you have to purchase, or one of the free map sets "Tracks4Australia" (T4A) or "Shonky". both of these can be downloaded from the net. I have both T4A and Shonky on my Nuvi 660 and my 60cx.
Regards
Neil
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Reply By: Mandrake - Thursday, Feb 21, 2008 at 14:17
Thursday, Feb 21, 2008 at 14:17
Neil ,
Thanks for the info - I have a few maps in jpeg format 1cm to 1Km scale for walking with . Can these be converted for use with these units - I can and have converted them into MAP format for use on my laptop with OziExplorer ..
Cheers
Steve
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Reply By: Mandrake - Thursday, Feb 21, 2008 at 14:18
Thursday, Feb 21, 2008 at 14:18
Neil ,
Thanks for the info - I have a few maps in jpeg format 1cm to 1Km scale for walking with . Can these be converted for use with these units - I can and have converted them into MAP format for use on my laptop with OziExplorer ..
Cheers
Steve
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