Frequently asked questions faq for garmin etrex legend hcx. Free topo and trail maps for your garmin gps gps tracklog sep 01, 2009 if youre a garmin owner and arent aware of all the free maps available for your unit, youre in for a. View and download garmin etrex legend owners manual and reference manual online. Downloading osm maps for garmin etrex legend hcx with memory card. This unit is showing its age now and new mappers would be advised to look at the garmin hcx which has better reception, faster locking to location, greater accuracy, unlimited tracklog length caching and unlimited map storage due to internal sd card.
Venture cx appears to be identical technical specification to legend cx march 2007, garmin website, but cheaper shop price 150 gbp from packaged extras included in price differ between legend cx and venture cx, being usb data lead essential for computer. Free topo and trail maps for your garmin gps gps tracklog. In this video, ill show you the easy way to install additional maps onto your etrex 20. Free worldwide garmin maps from openstreetmap, available in basecamp, mapsource, roadtrip and gmapsupp formats for windows, mac osx and linux. They do have maps in garmin format, they are the ones with img in the file name. Openstreetmap is a map of the world, created by people like you and free to use under an open license. The garmin etrex series is extremely popular among osm users and generally gives good value for its money. There is an api for the serial port which can be used to download the trace record. Replaced manual map selection with automatic map selection for find operations based on current position or map pointer.
You can add topo, bluechart, birdseye and other garmin commercial products. The etrex, etrex venture, etrex legend, etrex summit and etrex vista make up this range. You can measure the temperature when you start the device in diagnostic mode. Turn on your gps unit and ensure the interface setup is set to grmngrmn host, garmin, or data transfer slave mode. Mapy zdarma pro navigace garmin, mapy projektu openstreetmap.