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 .

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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....

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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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