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What I can't comprehend from the paragraph you wrote (quoted above) is your statement "IGo Primo is streets ahead of Garmin". The Zumo 590 also offers every one of the features you cited. I know this because I have owned a 590 for about 6 months now, and have ridden over 10,000 miles with it in Canada, the USA, Europe, and North Africa.
Thank you for taking the time to give a detailed response.

Whilst I'm pleased to hear Garmin do listen to feedback I'm still of the view that a device costing this much money should come with default settings that a typical biker wouldn't feel the need to change.

For example my previous post about not being able to change the default countryside colour... Really, why is it the same pale green for all the themes that come with the unit? There's not even an option to change it by editing the theme files themselves.

I will have a re-read of the manual to discover some the settings mentioned so far but one I'd really like some help with is changing the 3D distance view.

On iGo Primo you can choose - I seem to remember it was 5km, 10km or 15km together with on/off for zoom-out when there are no turns within the chosen distance view. When set to 5km it gives an excellent and detailed view of the road ahead allowing the rider to accurately assess bends.
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...one I'd really like some help with is changing the 3D distance view.
Use the two small controls that appear on the left hand side of the screen (at least, that's where they are when the device is in portrait orientation). They will let you zoom in and out.

Garmin doesn't assign a scale to the 3D view because the map is drawn logarithmically, with quite high zoom directly in front of the rider, fading away to a more compressed view at infinity (the horizon at the top of the display).

I don't use 3D view myself, hence I don't have a lot of experience with it. I expect, though, that you will need to select the 'autozoom' control to 'off' if you want the zoom level you have manually set to persist.

It is possible that the + and - controls on the left of the screen may disappear after a few moments of riding. If this happens, it is by design, to automatically declutter the display. Touching the screen should bring the controls back.

For what it's worth, I find that using the device in portrait view presents me with much more useful map information that using it in landscape view. I don't care much about what is beside me, it's what is ahead of me that counts.

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Update fixes bug for fixed countryside colours
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For example my previous post about not being able to change the default countryside colour... Really, why is it the same pale green for all the themes that come with the unit? There's not even an option to change it by editing the theme files themselves.
I had a suspicion the persistent LAND colour maybe a fault. I just installed the latest updates for my device and now the LAND colour changes with each theme selected. Toggling 3D Terrain on/off changes the colours as well. With it off the LAND colour set in the kmtf file (this is the file that holds the colour them parameters) is a match.
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