Hi Didier, all newer device by Garmin (Oregon, Dakota, 62/78, eTrex10/20/30, Montana...) are accessed as mass storage device. In fact Garmin dripped most of the proprietary USB protocol. By that device access is OS independent. However switching from mass storage mode to normal mode requires a full reboot.
All newer devices use Garmins own GPS solution (Cartesio chip set with customer firmware). Sadly the precision of the receiver and the post processing do not match the one of the Sirf III chip set. That has nothing to do with sensitivity, which is good for all recent devices on the market. It's just that sometimes the track has an offset by 10m or fast direction changes (bike) are not handled precisely. In most cases these effects are observed under free sky. Below the tree canopy deviation of the position usually superposes that problem. The usability of the current firmware is as mediocre as the one on old devices. Everything changed, sometimes for better, sometimes for worse. But, well, it will serve the purpose. All new devices support raster maps, too. A feature I appreciate much. When I lost my 60CSx I bought a 62s because operating a touchscreen with gloves or sandy fingers is a bad idea. HTH Oliver > -----Povodna sprava----- > > Od: Hérisson Didier <[email protected]> > > Prijata: 30.06.2011 22:30 > > Pre: [email protected] > <[email protected]> > > Predmet: [Qlandkartegt-users] [OOT] what garmin to buy? > > > > > > > Hi, > > > > My Garmin GPSmap 60 Csx is down, I will have to replace it. As I'm an > happy QLGT user, I would like to buy a well supported one to be able to send > all my data to the new device. > > > > As I'm using it walking through the deep tropical rainforest, It should be > as sensitive as possible, as strong as possible, as light as possible (in > order of importance.) > > > > What would be your choice? > > > > Thanks > > -- > > Didier Hérisson > > > > Clef publique 0x18A22FF2151D17C2 > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > All of the data generated in your IT infrastructure is seriously > valuable. Why? It contains a definitive record of application performance, > security threats, fraudulent activity, and more. Splunk takes this data and > makes sense of it. IT sense. And common sense. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2d-c2_______________________________________________ > Qlandkartegt-users > mailing list [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/qlandkartegt-users > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ All of the data generated in your IT infrastructure is seriously valuable. Why? It contains a definitive record of application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity, and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. IT sense. And common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2d-c2 _______________________________________________ Qlandkartegt-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/qlandkartegt-users
