Colorado & Oregon Position Marker?

[MtnHermit]

On my eTrex, when I use the cursor, the position marker disappears. However, on the Nuvi, using my finger to reposition the map, the position marker (Vehicle) does not disappear. What happens on the Oregon and Colorado with regard to the Position Marker when you reposition the map?

 

Here's a Nuvi Position Marker example, the red triangle:

 

 

Thanks

[+g-o-cashers]

The CO looks very similar to the Nuvi. The OR also leaves the triangular position pointer but it uses a big red pin to shows the location that you are selecting.

 

The pin looks like this:

 

 

GO$Rs

[MtnHermit]

Thanks GO$Rs

 

The CO looks very similar to the Nuvi. The OR also leaves the triangular position pointer but it uses a big red pin to shows the location that you are selecting.

The red triangle on the Nuvi is called factory.srf. I inserted it into the Vehicle folder on the Nuvi, then selected it from about a half-dozen vehicle choices.

 

Do the Oregon and Colorado also allow user choice for the Position Marker? Do they have an equivalent to the vehicle folder? Best I could determine, the eTrex does NOT allow the black triangle to be changed, unlike the Nuvi.

 

As I understand your reply, the big red pin is in effect the cursor?

 

BTW, what is the long red arrow in your screenshot? Perhaps the direction to Roasted Cache?

[+g-o-cashers]

At one point I tried creating a vehicle folder on the CO and loaded some custom vehicles from Garmin's page but they didn't show up. There isn't any configuration option on the CO or OR that allows you to change the vehicle that I've seen.

 

The red arrow and oval on the screen shot is a markup that I made--nothing that the OR does.

 

The big red pin is the location cursor on the OR. It works a little differently because of the touch screen. If you tap the map screen it shows up at the location you tapped. Then you can drag the map screen underneath the pin to precisely locate the point you are selecting. The other difference between the CO and OR is that you can see the distance and bearing to the location cursor in the bar up top on the OR AND it updates as you move. With the CO you have to hit enter to get a static distance reading and the bearing isn't available at all.

 

GO$Rs

[MtnHermit]

If you tap the map screen it shows up at the location you tapped. Then you can drag the map screen underneath the pin to precisely locate the point you are selecting.

How about that, my Nuvi works the same way, I'd been using a stylus with mixed results. This is much better.

 

Learn something new every day . . . Thanks.

[+Team Chinook]

GO$Rs,

 

Couldn't you select those items to display in the bottom left and right corner data fields?

 

At one point I tried creating a vehicle folder on the CO and loaded some custom vehicles from Garmin's page but they didn't show up. There isn't any configuration option on the CO or OR that allows you to change the vehicle that I've seen.

 

The red arrow and oval on the screen shot is a markup that I made--nothing that the OR does.

 

The big red pin is the location cursor on the OR. It works a little differently because of the touch screen. If you tap the map screen it shows up at the location you tapped. Then you can drag the map screen underneath the pin to precisely locate the point you are selecting. The other difference between the CO and OR is that you can see the distance and bearing to the location cursor in the bar up top on the OR AND it updates as you move. With the CO you have to hit enter to get a static distance reading and the bearing isn't available at all.

 

GO$Rs

[+g-o-cashers]

GO$Rs,

 

Couldn't you select those items to display in the bottom left and right corner data fields?

 

 

Nope. You can get distance to next and bearing on the map screen but these are only active if you actually select "Go" to a destination. The OR gives you similar to functionality to what the 60csx and most older Garmin GPS's had -- the ability to select points on the map and get a dynamic distance and bearing without actually starting navigation to that point. This allows you to select multiple points on the map quickly to get distance and bearing without having to quit your your current active navigation. If, for example, I was navigating to a geocache and I wanted to get a distance and bearing to a trail intersection or nearby landmark I could tap the screen get the data I wanted and hit back. On the CO I would have to select the intersection on the map, goto it, get the distance and bearing, select WhereTo->Recent Finds and pick my previous destination.

 

GO$Rs

[+Redwoods Mtn Biker]

How about that, my Nuvi works the same way, I'd been using a stylus with mixed results. This is much better.

 

Yeah, I didn't know that either (about the nuvi). Too good of a tip -- I'm spreading the word.

[MtnHermit]

Yeah, I didn't know that either (about the nuvi). Too good of a tip -- I'm spreading the word.

I ran into a problem using the feature.

 

I could easily position the map under the cursor, BUT it would not give me any information about the object under the cursor. This was true whether the object was a point, line or area. If I tapped to position the cursor, then the nearest object was IDed, most but not all the time.

 

I was using Above the Timber's topo maps, if that matters. Were you able to get the Nuvi to ID an object using this technique?

[+Redwoods Mtn Biker]

Yes, I just tried it on my nuvi 660. Panning to a road it shows the address (number and street name). It also shows park names when I pan to those areas.