I tried again this morning to upload this route into the GPS:
But I got an error message att eh end of 3 minutes calculating saying there was not enough memory in the gPS for this route.
OK now I am worried. This is just one days ride (poss 2) on a 4-6 week tour. If I cannot figure out why this thing cannot store the routes then I have a problem because I dont have access to a PC with Mapsource installed en route.
AT NO POINT HAS GARMIN EVER STATED THIS WAS NECESSARY. IN fact the bloke on the phone said it was possible to store such routes on the unit before I bought it.
...right now this thing is looking like a seriously expensive nightmare.
Also when It does manage to take in smaller routes (say 40km) I cannot seem to name those routes in a user freindly way, say I wanted to call the route Pub to Home for arguments sake...at the moment it reads something like...City to 02 or similar nonsense.
Also I cannot delete individual routes..it seems like I can only delete all of them or nothing!
Also I tried to put in a waypoint of a campsite for which I have the GPS co ordinates...but the Co ordinate format is totally different on the gPS to that on the Ppaer map...so i can tdo that either.
...anybody got a hammer...I feel like ending it's life.
..I dont suppose there is any way I can just increase this things memory to MEGA proportions is there?