"HK" wrote in message
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Saw a few spring birds out the yard this morning, so, cold as it is, we
must be getting close to a seasonal change - I hope. Put out some seed for
them in our backyard feeders - they gotta be hungry.

Dug my Garmin GPS out of its winter hiding place, took off the dust cover,
and used my "accessory" two wire cord to plug it in and then logged onto
Garmin's site to see if there was a software update. There was. Downloaded
it, transferred it onto an SD card and...voila! Now, if warm weather
would only get here.

The Garmin system software is fine, but I sure don't have much good to say
about its "Mapsource" software to add waypoints and suchlike from your
computer to the unit. It's klunky.

I called their help line yesterday about switching maps on my GPSMAP 60Cx.
After buying the unit at a Costco online sale in October last year, I went
out and bought the Blue chart for coastal Nova Scotia.
Everything worked fine...although I do find the screen a bit small.
For Christmap I received the Topo map software for Canada. Since the 64 mg
microSD memory card can't hold it all...I just added the topo maps for the
Maritime provinces.
Problem was...I didn't know how to switch back and forth from marine to topo
maps on the handheld. It was easy on the computer... but confusing for the
60 Cx.
Took 10 seconds to get the simple steps pointed out and now I'm good to go.