Thread: Loading maps on a Etrex30?
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Old 01-02-24 | 06:08 AM
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Originally Posted by Christo613
Oh my, this feels like using the internet in 1992. I only discovered the mini usb port later (and I don't have a mini cable), so when I uploaded the map I put it straight on a micro SD card. I had to create a 'Garmin' folder myself, and it looks like that's what finally made the device able to read the map.
So if I understand correctly, i need to download a program called Garmin Express, so that I can use another program called Garmin Connect?! And what about Basecamp? I got this device for the great battery life I need on multi-day trips. But I don't quite get how such user-unfriendly product can have mainstream appeal, when everyone has a phone so vastly easier to use!
And if I want to follow a route created on RWGPS, how would I do that?
Buy a Mini USB cable. I mentioned that in October when you asked about the Oregon 600 in your other thread.

I do not use these other software packages you are talking about, I have no idea how to use them or what they are used for.
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