Help needed with my Garmin Oregon 550

[Mad Hatter]

Hi all,

I have just joined this site via a recommendation of an advert I put on Gumtree. I was asking for help with my technical Oregon. He said ask you guys...so here goes.

I bought the Oregon 550 late last summer for walking and cycling. Mainly cycling. I am fine with technology and have understood how to use the basics with it. The thing is I know there is potentially a lot more i can do with it. At the moment I use it to log my rides in the track facility. I am not having much luck with Base camp software as it seems to show all my tracks on one map and again I know there is more things I can get out of base camp than what I am getting out of it at the moment.

I am based in Cambridge and ideally would like someone to come have a coffee and show me the way... A bit like in the 70's show Kung Fu, but with my Garmin GPS!

Any advice on best software, how to set routes to follow etc would be great.

Thanks in advance

Tim

 

[Tight Git]

Have you tried the free OSM maps on your gps? Available at http://talkytoaster.info/ukmaps.htm

I use them on my 800 and they seem a lot better than the garmin maps. Route planning try bikehike or one of the other sites then load onto the gps.

HTH