Last month, Leszek Pawlowicz of Free Geography Tools hinted at a new project code-named MOAGU. He may ascribe a different meaning to the acronym for legal reasons, but let’s call it what it is — MOAGU is the mother of all Garmin utilities. What Leszek has created is a utility that will place a USGS topo map on your Garmin GPS. Actually, it will put any scanned, georeferenced map on your Garmin. It won’t work on just any Garmin mapping handheld yet; I haven’t been able to get the maps on my Colorado 300, though I’m hoping some of our more technically inclined readers can figure that one out.
I have used it on my Garmin 60CSx and I have to say that Moagu rocks! This really is revolutionary. Handheld users have been asking for 1:24,000 scale USGS maps for their GPS units for years. The DeLorme PN-20 and Magellan Triton series have implemented this, more or less successfully (respectively), but we haven’t had an easy solution for Garmin devices until now.
Let’s start out by taking a look at the process and limitations.
Installing Moagu
The installation process is very straightforward, though you will need to have the free version of cGPSmapper installed first.
Creating a map with Moagu
Moagu includes step-by-step instructions for the process that are very easy to follow. This is the simplest map creation method I have seen using cGPSmapper
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Hello,
I am wondering if the use of such heavy-duty imagery will result in a shortened battery life. I noticed with garmin’s colorado, the battery life was terrible when using the more detailed image-intensive features. This resulted in me returning the unit and going with a 76CSx. Anyone have experience with this?
Thanks,
Mark
I don’t think so, but I could be wrong. My take is that Colorado battery life is due to the hardware and not the imagery. You pretty much have to use NiMH for the Colorado and Oregon series.
I just generated a mapset with 20 X tiles (in default large size tile and zoom levels at 120m ), total mapset size is around 20MB. I haven’t test it by actually moving around outside yet but I noticed if I use the 60CSX’s ROCKER pad to move the pointer around the map, the redraws will take place with the screen go blank as soon as the pointer move across tile borders, within a tile you can move the map very quick without any blank screen re-draw. I wonder if this blank screen re-draw will take place if I go outside and walk across tile borders or the GSP will buffer surrounding tiles in advance in real time tracking mode?
No, I don’t think it will buffer in advance.
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If you’re trying to contact the Moagu creator, his info is here…
http://moagu.com/?page_id=11