[Closed] PSA: Garmin eTrex 20

Hot mine through really quickly and have managed to load some 1:25k maps on it.
No chance to try it yet though!

How much was it last week please?

[url= http://singletrackmag.com/forum/topic/psa-garmin-etrex-20-cheeep-on-amazon-black-friday ]Thread[/url] from the other day. I hope they are that price again. I am looking to get one as well.

Thanks for that, 4 minutes past and already 80% sold!

Happy days, back on for £90 ! 77% claimed already !

Happy days, missed out last time, grabbed one today.

😀

Got mine. Been shopping around for the best price on one of these for a couple of weeks. Happy man.

Cheers for the heads up Steve!

Thanks BigSteve for the heads up. Just got one...not totally sure I need it but I love a bargain 🙄 😉

[u]nuke[/u] I wasn't sure I needed one but I'm getting fed up with battery suck on my iphone and worried about getting it wet / dropping it etc while out. The phone can stay warm and dry ready to make a call with a fully charged battery. No brainer really, can't wait for it to arrive!

i bought one - time for geocaching 🙂

Anyone recommend a bar mount for said device?

i bought this one with it :

http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00004VX15/ref=ox_ya_os_product

now, where do i get maps from...........................?

Googling this shows you the places for maps "Garmin Mapsource Topo Great Britain v2"

Checked out the bar mount on Amazon and latest reviews say it doesn't fit!!!

i bought this one with it :

http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00004VX15/ref=ox_ya_os_product

Thats the wrong mount, that one's for the old etrex models like the vista etc.
This is the one for the 10, 20 and 30.....

[url= http://www.amazon.co.uk/Garmin-Bike-Mount-Colorado-Oregon/dp/B0012MI7QE/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&qid=1353864039&sr=8-5 ]http://www.amazon.co.uk/Garmin-Bike-Mount-Colorado-Oregon/dp/B0012MI7QE/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&qid=1353864039&sr=8-5[/url]

😀

missed out on last one due to amazon account glitch so cheers for PSA, 90 quid I didnt need to spend just before Xmas.... 😀

mount cancelled ! what a bargain 🙂

Nice one thanks.

dupe-ignore

Ordered mount, screen savers and an 2gb micro sd card. Wohooo !!!!

Thanks for the heads up [u]BigSteve[/u]

It's like Xmas already 😯

Thanks for the heads up. Got one and can now retire (aka sell) my Etrex Vista HCx

Will probably order the latest uk+ireland opencyclemaps SD card to go with it from the opencyclemap shop for sixteen notes, pending downloading some 1:25000 OS to cover my fave parts of mid-Wales, Scotland, Sussex and Surrey.

Workhard, where do you downlad your 1:25000 OS maps from? Would love some fore the Cairngorms etc, but also thinking of getting 1:50000 for the whole of Scotland.

This might be a good resource also...

http://openmtbmap.org/

if thats "DT" Neil I may have to pick your brains when it arrives

Glad you all managed to get one. I saw the original but was in meetings so couldn't be online. Got the wife to check and if it was less that £125 (cheapest I could find online) then to buy it. Happy chappy at £89. My lads Christmas pressie sorted.

neiloxford - Member

This might be a good resource also...

http://openmtbmap.org/

Highland28 - Member

Workhard, where do you downlad your 1:25000 OS maps from? Would love some fore the Cairngorms etc, but also thinking of getting 1:50000 for the whole of Scotland.

I was thinking of BirdsEye tbh. Rather than anything foc.

Are these still on offer and how do you get 77% back

Are these still on offer and how do you get 77% back

No

The 77% refers to how many had sold out of the available stock at that price

Cheers

Anyone got there's yet? Mine turned up today...looks good

However...I've been looking at putting OS maps 1:25K on it: what are the available options? As it stands the only option looks to be BirdsEye Select Great Britain.

Yep. Mine landed today. Looks good.
Spent an hour fiddling for downloadable maps but needed to leave it for a bit.
Will check back here later.

Has anyone downloaded opencyclemaps or openmtbmaps onto their device?

Opencyclemaps look good for £9.99, not sure on mtb maps (free). I've got a memory card so I'm ready to go.

Experiences please, thanks.

I spent a bit of time playing with maps on this so I'll put down what I've found.

Easy way is just to grab a a copy of the opensteetmap, there are ones here already ( http://www.talkytoaster.info/ukmaps.htm) in garmin format, rename and put in garmin directory, it just works.

Garmin custom maps are also okay for small areas, see http://www.justgoride.co.uk/Content/Articles/Item.aspx?id=119 for a guide

The better way is to roll your own JNX raster maps, all the base info comes from here( http://whiter.brinkster.net/en/JNX.shtml), these are your own maps in the same format as garmin birdseye, the format has been reverse engineered, in sequence:

1. Change firmware to allow unsigned JNX maps, this is 2.80 for etrex 20/30 http://www.iogrea.com/Descargas/etrex20/GUPDATE.GCD
2. Get the mobile atlas creater from the justgoride link, use that to download a layer, say Yahoo layer 8 for the whole country, but this time set the output format as OSMtracker tile storage
3. Get a copy of mobattojnx from here http://www.the-thorns.org.uk/mapping/help/jnx.html
4. Convert the layer to jnx with
mobat2jnx "C:\path\above\layer\directory".
5. Get a copy of jnxcustomizer http://www.iogrea.com/Descargas/JNXCustomizer1024.rar
6. Open the map in jnxcustomizer, group is for separating maps, different group number means they can be disabled separably, start at 13 to avoid any garmin numbers. Level is when this map kicks in, and is the most important bit, I have yahoo L8 set at 200K.
7. Move the map to the device in the birdseye directory , and that is a first map.
8. Repeat with different maps at different layers, I have 4. Yahoo layer 8 at 200K, Yahoo layer 11 at 12K, OS 1:50 at 800m, OS 1:25 at 200m (the os maps only cover smaller areas)

Don't merge multiple layers in the same jnx, it works but is slower than putting each layer in a separate file.

Good work...cheers for that phead

Downloaded opencyclemap today. I'll report back after testing. 😀

This looks good for skiing...

http://skidea.com/maps

have downloaded the UK map from openmtbmaps

http://openmtbmap.org/download/odbl/#europe-map-downloads

there's an idiot's guide on installation in the FAQ should you need one *cough* 😳 but not had chance to use it yet.

I'm using te talkytoaster link to open maps.. Brilliant and sufficient for GPS use... Had it strapped to the Nicolai today and at 89 quid, what a bargain !

http://www.navitotal.com/showthread.php?11240-Garmin-GB-Discoverer-v3.0-national-parks-and-trails-1-25K

http://www.navitotal.com/showthread.php?10663-GB-Discoverer-50K-v3.0-Great-Britain-National-Parks-1-50K&highlight=garmin+topo

http://www.navitotal.com/showthread.php?2398-Garmin-Topo-Great-Britain-v2-MapSource&highlight=Garmin+Topo+Great+Britain

Tried the garmin maps and talkytoaster, talkytoaster all the way 🙂