The places where I have learned bits of information that made it into this ebook are too many to mention, but many are linked in context in later sections. What makes it possible is thousands of people who visit the internet and share their experience on newsgroups and websites such as forums and blogs. Certain aspects will apply to other Garmin units besides the 60CSX.Ī collection like this is never the work of a single person. Hoping to spare other people that ordeal, in the ebook I share what I gradually learned.
It took me many days and nights to understand certain aspects of the 60CSX. It's here less for you than in the hope that someday Garmin will start respecting their customers.
#Download gpx file to garmin 60csx upgrade
And why doesn't the unit let us switch to a different mapset without having us connect to a computer and rename the files on the card? Somewhere at Garmin, an engineer probably wrote that basic firmware upgrade for himself long ago. And why can't we upload maps that have no tile limit, instead of the skimpy 2025 Garmin lets us have? Hello Garmin, it's not 1978, we can do these things nowadays. Would it break Garmin's bottom line to use a chip that can honorably provide this basic function? It would probably bump up the unit cost by something like 94 cents. But I don't love how long it takes to zoom in and out of a map. if you had the good luck to have a computer still equipped with such an antique port.
#Download gpx file to garmin 60csx serial
How much memory did Garmin ship with the Legend? Eight megabytes! And could you transfer maps via USB, the standard already for many years? No, you had to use a Serial port at one tenth of the speed. At the time you could buy a 256MB USB key for twenty dollars. I remember when I upgraded from that unit to the blue Etrex Legend, back in 2005. As I write, you can still buy the basic yellow Etrex. For instance, it leaves obsolete products on the market for years and years and years. It chronically skimps on essential features and components. If you've used Mapsource, you know what I'm talking about.Īnd on the hardware side, Garmin is the most stingy consumer electronics company I know. On the other hand, it makes design choices that waste hours and hours of many people's time, adding up to a cost that might range somewhere in the hundreds of millions. On the one hand it makes products that many people love to use for the features that do work. But you're here, so you already know a thing or two about Garmin.
You would turn on your 60CSX and you'd be able to do all the things you expect to do with a well-designed GPS, such as transfer multiple maps through an intuitive interface.Īhhh. This is a guide to save you time on the 60CSX.īefore we get to the good stuff, I'd like to point out that in a perfect world you would not be reading this.
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