Garmin Vista

"Fraser Macfarlane" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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I've just bought a Garmin GPS Vista and wondered if anyone
could tell me

the

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best way to enter a long route - such as the Pennine Way -
into its

memory.

Hi

The best way is some sort of mapping software on your PC,
plot waypoints, allocate waypoints plotted to a route (max
50 waypoints to a route) I use one route per day of walking
on my Legend which is much the same as your Vista.
Alternatively you could create tracks on the PC and upload
them and use tracback (not my preferred method as I like to
record tracks and save them when walking). As for the PC
software there are commercially available digital maps
Anquet or Memory Map. I use oziexplorer with scanned maps
but scanning them can be tedious to do. You would have to be
some sort of massochist to try to manually enter a route
like the Pennine way.

Rgds Alan

Memory Map or Anquet if you like it easy! They come with
maps, but Ozi is meant to be better, although you have to
scan your own!

If you're going to use Memory Map to do it let me (us) know
how you get on as i think i'll be getting a Vista to use
with my Memory Map.

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"Fraser Macfarlane" <[email hidden]> wrote
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Quoted message said:

I've just bought a Garmin GPS Vista and wondered if
anyone could tell me

the

Quoted message said:

best way to enter a long route - such as the Pennine Way
- into its

memory.

Hi

The best way is some sort of mapping software on your PC,
plot waypoints, allocate waypoints plotted to a route (max
50 waypoints to a route) I use one route per day of
walking on my Legend which is much the same as your Vista.
Alternatively you could create tracks on the PC and upload
them and use tracback (not my preferred method as I like
to record tracks and save them when walking). As for the
PC software there are commercially available digital maps

Anquet

Quoted message said:

or Memory Map. I use oziexplorer with scanned maps but
scanning them can

be

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tedious to do. You would have to be some sort of
massochist to try to manually enter a route like the
Pennine way.

Rgds Alan