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  • PSA: Garmin eTrex 20
  • BigSteve
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    For those of you that missed the Amazon Black Friday sale last week – it’s back on again today at 3:59.

    chojin
    Free Member

    Hot mine through really quickly and have managed to load some 1:25k maps on it.
    No chance to try it yet though!

    neiloxford
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    How much was it last week please?

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    Highland28
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    Thread from the other day. I hope they are that price again. I am looking to get one as well.

    phead
    Free Member

    Thanks for that, 4 minutes past and already 80% sold!

    neiloxford
    Free Member

    Happy days, back on for £90 ! 77% claimed already !

    matty456
    Free Member

    Happy days, missed out last time, grabbed one today.

    😀

    butcher
    Full Member

    Got mine. Been shopping around for the best price on one of these for a couple of weeks. Happy man.

    Cheers for the heads up Steve!

    nuke
    Full Member

    Thanks BigSteve for the heads up. Just got one…not totally sure I need it but I love a bargain 🙄 😉

    matty456
    Free Member

    nuke I wasn’t sure I needed one but I’m getting fed up with battery suck on my iphone and worried about getting it wet / dropping it etc while out. The phone can stay warm and dry ready to make a call with a fully charged battery. No brainer really, can’t wait for it to arrive!

    the_lecht_rocks
    Full Member

    i bought one – time for geocaching 🙂

    matty456
    Free Member

    Anyone recommend a bar mount for said device?

    the_lecht_rocks
    Full Member
    the_lecht_rocks
    Full Member

    now, where do i get maps from………………………?

    neiloxford
    Free Member

    Googling this shows you the places for maps “Garmin Mapsource Topo Great Britain v2”

    matty456
    Free Member

    Checked out the bar mount on Amazon and latest reviews say it doesn’t fit!!!

    mrjmt
    Free Member

    i bought this one with it :

    http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00004VX15/ref=ox_ya_os_product

    Thats the wrong mount, that one’s for the old etrex models like the vista etc.
    This is the one for the 10, 20 and 30…..

    http://www.amazon.co.uk/Garmin-Bike-Mount-Colorado-Oregon/dp/B0012MI7QE/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&qid=1353864039&sr=8-5

    😀

    crashtestmonkey
    Free Member

    missed out on last one due to amazon account glitch so cheers for PSA, 90 quid I didnt need to spend just before Xmas…. 😀

    the_lecht_rocks
    Full Member

    mount cancelled ! what a bargain 🙂

    matty456
    Free Member

    Nice one thanks.

    phead
    Free Member

    dupe-ignore

    matty456
    Free Member

    Ordered mount, screen savers and an 2gb micro sd card. Wohooo !!!!

    Thanks for the heads up BigSteve

    It’s like Xmas already 😯

    workhard
    Free Member

    Thanks for the heads up. Got one and can now retire (aka sell) my Etrex Vista HCx

    Will probably order the latest uk+ireland opencyclemaps SD card to go with it from the opencyclemap shop for sixteen notes, pending downloading some 1:25000 OS to cover my fave parts of mid-Wales, Scotland, Sussex and Surrey.

    Highland28
    Free Member

    Workhard, where do you downlad your 1:25000 OS maps from? Would love some fore the Cairngorms etc, but also thinking of getting 1:50000 for the whole of Scotland.

    neiloxford
    Free Member

    This might be a good resource also…

    http://openmtbmap.org/

    crashtestmonkey
    Free Member

    if thats “DT” Neil I may have to pick your brains when it arrives

    BigSteve
    Free Member

    Glad you all managed to get one. I saw the original but was in meetings so couldn’t be online. Got the wife to check and if it was less that £125 (cheapest I could find online) then to buy it. Happy chappy at £89. My lads Christmas pressie sorted.

    smartmonkey
    Free Member

    neiloxford – Member

    This might be a good resource also…

    http://openmtbmap.org/
    I use open MTB map on the Dakota, shows plenty of trails, even down to single track level in most places.
    If the mount for the Etrex is the same as the dakota (http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Delectronics&field-keywords=B0012MI7QE ) you’ll need to use a loop of old inner tube to keep the locking tab snug, or you’ll keep loosing it after the first few crashes, (Thanks to Penac, who found mine and returned it to me after I lost it)
    HTH
    SM

    workhard
    Free Member

    Highland28 – Member

    Workhard, where do you downlad your 1:25000 OS maps from? Would love some fore the Cairngorms etc, but also thinking of getting 1:50000 for the whole of Scotland.

    I was thinking of BirdsEye tbh. Rather than anything foc.

    vondally
    Free Member

    Are these still on offer and how do you get 77% back

    jota180
    Free Member

    Are these still on offer and how do you get 77% back

    No

    The 77% refers to how many had sold out of the available stock at that price

    vondally
    Free Member

    Cheers

    nuke
    Full Member

    Anyone got there’s yet? Mine turned up today…looks good

    However…I’ve been looking at putting OS maps 1:25K on it: what are the available options? As it stands the only option looks to be BirdsEye Select Great Britain.

    m0nster2
    Free Member

    Yep. Mine landed today. Looks good.
    Spent an hour fiddling for downloadable maps but needed to leave it for a bit.
    Will check back here later.

    matty456
    Free Member

    Has anyone downloaded opencyclemaps or openmtbmaps onto their device?

    Opencyclemaps look good for £9.99, not sure on mtb maps (free). I’ve got a memory card so I’m ready to go.

    Experiences please, thanks.

    phead
    Free Member

    I spent a bit of time playing with maps on this so I’ll put down what I’ve found.

    Easy way is just to grab a a copy of the opensteetmap, there are ones here already (http://www.talkytoaster.info/ukmaps.htm) in garmin format, rename and put in garmin directory, it just works.

    Garmin custom maps are also okay for small areas, see http://www.justgoride.co.uk/Content/Articles/Item.aspx?id=119 for a guide

    The better way is to roll your own JNX raster maps, all the base info comes from here(http://whiter.brinkster.net/en/JNX.shtml), these are your own maps in the same format as garmin birdseye, the format has been reverse engineered, in sequence:

    1. Change firmware to allow unsigned JNX maps, this is 2.80 for etrex 20/30 http://www.iogrea.com/Descargas/etrex20/GUPDATE.GCD
    2. Get the mobile atlas creater from the justgoride link, use that to download a layer, say Yahoo layer 8 for the whole country, but this time set the output format as OSMtracker tile storage
    3. Get a copy of mobattojnx from here http://www.the-thorns.org.uk/mapping/help/jnx.html
    4. Convert the layer to jnx with
    mobat2jnx “C:\path\above\layer\directory”.
    5. Get a copy of jnxcustomizer http://www.iogrea.com/Descargas/JNXCustomizer1024.rar
    6. Open the map in jnxcustomizer, group is for separating maps, different group number means they can be disabled separably, start at 13 to avoid any garmin numbers. Level is when this map kicks in, and is the most important bit, I have yahoo L8 set at 200K.
    7. Move the map to the device in the birdseye directory , and that is a first map.
    8. Repeat with different maps at different layers, I have 4. Yahoo layer 8 at 200K, Yahoo layer 11 at 12K, OS 1:50 at 800m, OS 1:25 at 200m (the os maps only cover smaller areas)

    Don’t merge multiple layers in the same jnx, it works but is slower than putting each layer in a separate file.

    nuke
    Full Member

    Good work…cheers for that phead

    matty456
    Free Member

    Downloaded opencyclemap today. I’ll report back after testing. 😀

    neiloxford
    Free Member

    This looks good for skiing…

    http://skidea.com/maps

    crashtestmonkey
    Free Member

    have downloaded the UK map from openmtbmaps

    Windows/Linux – OpenMtbMap Map Download

    there’s an idiot’s guide on installation in the FAQ should you need one *cough* 😳 but not had chance to use it yet.

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