New user with 76csx need help !

[johnnyw]

 How do you enter an address as a destination to go to. I do not have a address icon on the find menu. Also I downloaded the topo cd on my computer and it seems like not all of it downloaded. It doesnt show any small cities or roads on the map. Green as a gourd and need help.

Johnny

[brnchbrkr]

Have you purchased an Map Program/cd.?

http://www.garmin.com/cartography/ontheRoad/

Couple of years ago, my only option was City Select North America V6.

Which I had to purchase and install. The address Icon shows up under Find.   

City Select works fine no complaints other than the better units could use City Navigator.

On MapSource use the ctrl F keys and look at the top of tabs for address.

[Siskiyou]

johnnyw, brnchbrkr hit the nail on the head.  The icon selection is dependent on the software you have installed on the unit.  When I installed City Navigator North America my selection of ICONS increased.  I did not have an address Icon until that software was installed.  In fact it was like getting a new gps.

In a few minutes we are making a long drive to a hospitial.  Under the hospitial ICON I came up with the correct hospitial by name, but the wife says the address was incorrect.  It is a large complex.  I went to the address ICON, and put in the proper address, and selected GoTo, and the gps created an auto route to the address.  I use City Navigator in both my 76C and the 76Cx.

You want City Navigator 8v because it has the autorouting which will work with your new unti.

[johnnyw]

 No I havent installed anything. It came with a trips and waypoint manager cd but I didnt install it because it doesnt show anything but the major highways. I just figured since this was a mapping gps it would come ready to navigate without purchasing something else. Thanks for the info. I will purchase one of the mentioned cds and see how it turns out.

Thanks again, Johnny

[brnchbrkr]

Once you decide on the map software your going to use, google around to find who might have a sale on it.

The software should last you a long time, as long as they don't move any major highways.

The newer subdivisions that are built on a daily basis won't be current after a year, but that is what mapquest is for.  ;-)

Pick up a windshield mount and make sure you have a cigarette power cable and you will be set.

http://www.ram-mount.com/

Set up a bunch of waypoints before hand and start doing a few GOTO's, with a few wrong turns and watch it reroute for you.

You can FIND new addresses with the GPS ,. but much nicer sitting down at home with some time to enter a few waypoints on computer then sync to
GPS.

Save waypoints into mapsource file into a new folder and then figure out how to manage waypoints later.

Yahoo forums are talking on how with current tracks/maps you can now due an overlay with current Google Earth.

Kind of nice to see walk in the woods from air.