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Re: Garmin SP c330 update
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| No, actually, its 4.70!
Along those lines, the info for that release says "Added ability to
mark a waypoint. This feature is available from the My Locations
page." Has anybody figured out how to use that yet? I see no change in
My Locations.
Bob
On Mon, 03 Oct 2005 13:00:52 -0700, Skylooker <none@none.com> wrote:
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>It's 3.70, not 3.80.
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>On 4 Apr 2005 12:16:47 -0700, "allory" <allory@mac.com> wrote:
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| Skylooker 2005-10-04, 5:48 pm |
| Sorry if this is a stupid question, but what's the difference between
saving a favorite location and marking a waypoint with the c330?
On Mon, 03 Oct 2005 22:07:46 GMT, Bob <beachboy@nc.net> wrote:
>No, actually, its 4.70!
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>Along those lines, the info for that release says "Added ability to
>mark a waypoint. This feature is available from the My Locations
>page." Has anybody figured out how to use that yet? I see no change in
>My Locations.
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>Bob
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| I guess my answer to that would be that a waypoint is "automatic"
whereas a favorite location is "manual". What I mean is...
One of the criticisms of the C330 is that you can't plot a route. You
can only be "here" (perhaps using the Set Loc to set your current
location) and the destination. You can't specify stops or waypoints
along the way.
What I have been doing to get around this is to just set manual end
stop as my waypoints. I would just label them as xxx1, xxx2, etc. and
just manually switch to the next one when I arrive at the first.
Tedious, but it gets the job done. A true waypoint (a Via in the
Street Atlas sense) would be automatic - i.e. when you get to the
first waypoint it automatically goes on to the second, etc.
The point is that they went out of their way in the update contents
list to imply that something has changed. But I can't find any change
there at all.
Bob
On Tue, 04 Oct 2005 13:34:33 -0700, Skylooker <nono@nono.org> wrote:
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>Sorry if this is a stupid question, but what's the difference between
>saving a favorite location and marking a waypoint with the c330?
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>On Mon, 03 Oct 2005 22:07:46 GMT, Bob <beachboy@nc.net> wrote:
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| Skylooker 2005-10-05, 11:48 pm |
| That makes sense. Thanks, Bob.
On Wed, 05 Oct 2005 14:20:20 GMT, Bob <beachboy@nc.net> wrote:
>I guess my answer to that would be that a waypoint is "automatic"
>whereas a favorite location is "manual". What I mean is...
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>One of the criticisms of the C330 is that you can't plot a route. You
>can only be "here" (perhaps using the Set Loc to set your current
>location) and the destination. You can't specify stops or waypoints
>along the way.
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>What I have been doing to get around this is to just set manual end
>stop as my waypoints. I would just label them as xxx1, xxx2, etc. and
>just manually switch to the next one when I arrive at the first.
>Tedious, but it gets the job done. A true waypoint (a Via in the
>Street Atlas sense) would be automatic - i.e. when you get to the
>first waypoint it automatically goes on to the second, etc.
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>The point is that they went out of their way in the update contents
>list to imply that something has changed. But I can't find any change
>there at all.
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>Bob
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| I have tried some fairly detailed questions to Garmin email support,
but haven't received any helpful answers yet. I still don't understand
the difference between a saved location and a waypoint, and they can't
seem to help. I will keep trying...
Bob
On Wed, 05 Oct 2005 18:42:46 -0700, Skylooker <nono@nono.org> wrote:
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>That makes sense. Thanks, Bob.
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>On Wed, 05 Oct 2005 14:20:20 GMT, Bob <beachboy@nc.net> wrote:
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| That's what I have been doing. Again, thinking in Street Atlas terms,
everywhere I would have put a Via in Street Atlas, I just put another
named location in the C330, and sequence them with numbers.
So I start going to, for example, DEST1, and when I get there, I just
go to DEST2, and so on. Its a manual operation, but it gets the job
dne.
I haven't received any more email responses from Garmin. The last one
asked me to call tech support, but when I did the delay was 30-45
minutes, so I geve up.
Bob
On 11 Oct 2005 16:27:43 -0700, tejas.nadkarni@gmail.com wrote:
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>Bob,
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>I too have been wondering the same since I can't figure out what this
>"waypoint" update added to the C330.
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>I would love to be able to designate or queue destinations so I could
>simply say go to loc 1 first then loc 3 then loc 2. Ideally the route
>would be calculated with that in mind.
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>Bob wrote:
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| Sorry for slow reply, been out of town.
Thanks for the info. I guess I was hoping for a "via" function, but
not to be.
Bob
On 14 Oct 2005 11:14:01 -0700, threemoos@gmail.com wrote:
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>Bob,
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>This is how I've used the new "waypoint" capability -
>When I am stopped some place and I just want to record the location
>of the place, I do-
> Where to/Browse Map
>This shows your current location, then hit Go
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>This next screen, I believe, is new. It creates a location/waypoint
>called "001" and gives you an option to save it.
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>Previously, we had to Browse Map, manually point to the location
>and tell it to save that location. Now, although I havent tried
>this myself, we should be able to use this on a trail and just stop
>and do saves along the way. Stopping is required, else you will not
>get a "save" screen. This last point I am not able to reverify at
>this time as I am working it indoors near a window....
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>hope that helps,
>john
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>Bob wrote:
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