Comments on: Moagu brings USGS maps to your Garmin handheld

By: Rich Owings

Rich Owings — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 15:19:49 +0000

No, I don’t think it will buffer in advance.

By: Samson

Samson — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 02:55:24 +0000

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?

By: Rich Owings

Rich Owings — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 13:54:11 +0000

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.