Subsequent receivers seem to simply assume you are going to turn back to the last point they saw you pass …. It allowed track logs to be saved directly to SD card and seemed to have a much better logic to figure out distance remaining to destination when you hadn’t "cut" the track you were following for a while. #Garmin mobile xt map size limit software#It seems a bit sad that of the various Garmin receivers I have owned (multiple eTrexes, GPSMap 60CSx, 62st, 64st and 66s, Montana 650st, lots of Nüvis, vivoActive 3) the best in terms of software was the 60CSx. Could you please test this? The easiest way is to set one of two receivers to "calibrate once" and the other to "calibrate continuously" and watch their altimeter readouts diverge over time (good) – or not (bad). What I have NOT found is any indication (when using my 66s) that this has actually been implemented – it is as if they feel documenting the imaginary function is sufficient. I have even found a description of how this is supposed to work on Garmin’s site. #Garmin mobile xt map size limit manuals#More information on this would be appreciated.įinally, both the manuals for the 66 series and the new Montana manual claim that there is a "continuous" altimeter auto-calibration mode. Somewhat ominously the manual states that routes can only have 250 points – the 500 point maximum of previous GPS receivers was bad enough. With the 66 series we lost the "track manager" from the menu (we had lost the ability to log to SD cards with the 62 series), everything is now a "route". It would be interesting to know more about this. On the GPSMap 66 series tracking simply doesn’t start at all until you commence an activity – but I note that the "inReach" portion of the Montana manual describes "auto-tracking" which may or may not refer equally to the internal track log and the transmission of inReach data. I note that the Montana 7xx manual correctly indicates that starting an activity is needed to get the altimeter to calibrate itself. The current manual correctly documents this – the first two versions claimed that the 66 – like previous GPSMap receivers – auto-calibrated on STARTUP. Basically the altimeter doesn’t auto-calibrate itself, all elevations continue to be reported using the pressure when you last finished an activity. I am not a big fan of being forced to start an "activity" in order to get my safety devices to work – but neither the altimeter nor the tracking function work until you do that. With the GPSMap 66 series Garmin started mixing fitness and outdoor functions.
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