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The following questions will give an idea of my level of knowledge, but here goes:


With the Montana can you design bespoke routes on a PC utilising Mapsource and transfer them to the unit?

Garmin appears to offer automotive and marine mounts with a power and audio cable, can it then be hardwired into the 'bike's power removing the need for batteries?

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You can use either map source or basecamp. The latter has profiles which allow you to change the behaviour of the program. EG Walking, driving, bike etc

If you hard wire the device it no longer uses the battery, The battery has a very good life of about 14 hours in my experience, it will also takes aa batteries which is useful. The wired connection provides more than just power. EG Audio.

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MONTANA MASTER RESET
Procedure:
1. Turn off the unit.
2. Press the top left hand corner of the screen with your finger.
3. Keeping your finger in the corner, turn on the unit.
4. Keep your finger on the screen, until you get a message ?Do you
really want to erase all user data.
5. Select yes, and follow the setup instructions
6. Now leave the unit in clear view of the sky, outside is better, but a
window sill or glass roofed conservatory will do.
7. Do not move the unit for 30 minutes, this is to allow it re-register
its data with the satellites.
8. Then turn it off and on, and it should be working.

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Can you upload georeferenced images and use them as maps or do you need them to be in the Garmin format?
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yes you can as long as the image has been correctly geo-referenced, it will appear
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yes you can as long as the image has been correctly geo-referenced, it will appear
Hello Bertrand

So if I have geo tagged photos on the GPS the photos will show on the map?

A bit like Google Maps with the photo option on?

oh and when will the 600 cost £300?
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oh and when will the 600 cost £300?
ahh yeah... when Bert is getting his new Montana 750 next spring...
there there will be plenty of Montana 600 around for a bargain...
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oh and when will the 600 cost £300?
From the US:
GARMIN MONTANA 600 HANDHELD GPS £290

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More info from Garmin (thanks to Phil Elliott EU product support) - this gets better every day!

200 saved tracks of up to 10,000 points each

2000 archived tracks

2000 GPX files (each can contain mixture of waypoints/geocaches/routes and tracks)

12,000 geocaches

200 routes of 250 points in each

and 500 CUSTOM map tiles

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