Thanks for your advices. I was looking for differences between 78s/62s, I can't find anything but size and weight, allowing the 78s to float. As I'm quite often kayaking, it may be a good point... but not as cruciel as sensitivity or ease of use in conjunction with your great soft ;)
Le vendredi 01 juillet 2011, "Oliver Eichler" <[email protected]> a écrit: > Hi Didier, > > all newer device by Garmin (Oregon, Dakota, 62/78, eTrex10/20/30, > Montana...) are accessed as mass storage device. In fact Garmin dripped > most of the proprietary USB protocol. By that device access is OS > independent. However switching from mass storage mode to normal mode > requires a full reboot. > > All newer devices use Garmins own GPS solution (Cartesio chip set with > customer firmware). Sadly the precision of the receiver and the post > processing do not match the one of the Sirf III chip set. That has nothing > to do with sensitivity, which is good for all recent devices on the > market. It's just that sometimes the track has an offset by 10m or fast > direction changes (bike) are not handled precisely. In most cases these > effects are observed under free sky. Below the tree canopy deviation of > the position usually superposes that problem. > > The usability of the current firmware is as mediocre as the one on old > devices. Everything changed, sometimes for better, sometimes for worse. > But, well, it will serve the purpose. > > All new devices support raster maps, too. A feature I appreciate much. > > When I lost my 60CSx I bought a 62s because operating a touchscreen with > gloves or sandy fingers is a bad idea. > > > HTH > > Oliver > > > -----Povodna sprava----- > > > > Od: Hérisson Didier <[email protected]> > > > > Prijata: 30.06.2011 22:30 > > > > Pre: [email protected] > > <[email protected]> > > > > Predmet: [Qlandkartegt-users] [OOT] what garmin to buy? > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > > > My Garmin GPSmap 60 Csx is down, I will have to replace it. As I'm an > > happy QLGT user, I would like to buy a well supported one to be able to > > send all my data to the new device. > > > > > > > > As I'm using it walking through the deep tropical rainforest, It should > > be as sensitive as possible, as strong as possible, as light as possible > > (in order of importance.) > > > > > > > > What would be your choice? > > > > > > > > Thanks > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > --- All of the data generated in your IT infrastructure is seriously > valuable. Why? It contains a definitive record of application performance, > security threats, fraudulent activity, and more. Splunk takes this data > and makes sense of it. IT sense. And common sense. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2d-c2 > _______________________________________________ > Qlandkartegt-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/qlandkartegt-users -- Didier Hérisson Clef publique 0x18A22FF2151D17C2
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