Garmin 320 Guestion

[APFII]

Is it possible to overlay topo map on top of birds eye view ?

[cris axtell/coal hill ken]

yes. i want to do that to.

[Smoke'n Mack]

I have been wanting to do this as well. I thought I saw on here before where people were downloading topo maps online for their garmin for nothing??? Anyone remember where this was or what the process was?

[CAP]

There is a bunch of good info on GPS maps on the site link provided below

http://forums.gpsfiledepot.com/

They are as obsessed with GPS and mapping as are with beagles

[Mo. Beagler 5000]

Not without hacking into the software and reprogamming stuff..

I spoke with Garmin extensively about it... On their newer systems they said they would work on the overlaying the map deal... But then again every time you call garming you get twenty different people with 20 different answers.

[APFII]

I was rather disappointed when I found out how old the Birds Eye was that I paid for. It has to be 4yr old. Plus it was to difficult to know where the roads were in wooded areas.I will probably just go back to topo geographic maps.

[Mo. Beagler 5000]

I was rather disappointed when I found out how old the Birds Eye was that I paid for. It has to be 4yr old. Plus it was to difficult to know where the roads were in wooded areas.I will probably just go back to topo geographic maps.

Not me, I love birds eye!! but tis a pain in the butt to download. There is a BILLION ways they could make it easier and have more people use it but they won't.. They don't need too. One come I love and hate at the same time

[bucks better beagles]

The birds eye goes on the same card as the TOPO. I think, if you look closely, you will see that there is an overlay. Also, if you go to the "systems" feature, it has a place for opening or closing your TOPO and birdseye.

I love the birdseye but agree that the downloading feature off their maps is awful. No excuse for that.

[Mo. Beagler 5000]

The birds eye goes on the same card as the TOPO. I think, if you look closely, you will see that there is an overlay. Also, if you go to the "systems" feature, it has a place for opening or closing your TOPO and birdseye.

I love the birdseye but agree that the downloading feature off their maps is awful. No excuse for that.

No there isn't an overlay, the topo card will erase your information.. The first guy I talked to at Garmin told me this was possible but the next six told me he was full of crap and you can't put birds eye files in with the topo.. If they lied to me I am going to be one unhappy camper.. I suppose though it would actually be good cause then I could do it.

[Ohiohntr]

I was rather disappointed when I found out how old the Birds Eye was that I paid for. It has to be 4yr old. Plus it was to difficult to know where the roads were in wooded areas.I will probably just go back to topo geographic maps.

I thought that Birdseye was directly linked with Google Earth...apparently not. The images of new area we moved to are absolutely horrible and dated. Even at the highest resolution download the images blur if you zoom in at all....keep in mind Google Earth images of the same spots on my computer are crystal clear and images were just shot back in April.

At the old place I could zoom into the tree my dogs stopped to pee on....I will be lucky to know where I am at in the woods with the images of the new spots.

[bucks better beagles]

Mo, what happens if you turn your birds eye off? Will the topo come back? I ask this because when I hunt where I have not downloaded the birds eye for that area, I do not get my old topo either.

[Smoke'n Mack]

The birds eye goes on the same card as the TOPO. I think, if you look closely, you will see that there is an overlay. Also, if you go to the "systems" feature, it has a place for opening or closing your TOPO and birdseye.

I love the birdseye but agree that the downloading feature off their maps is awful. No excuse for that.

No there isn't an overlay, the topo card will erase your information.. The first guy I talked to at Garmin told me this was possible but the next six told me he was full of crap and you can't put birds eye files in with the topo.. If they lied to me I am going to be one unhappy camper.. I suppose though it would actually be good cause then I could do it.

What if you leave your Birds Eye images on your SD card, and store the topo maps directly on the 320's internal memory??? This is what I was thinking all along, not sure how the topo maps would erase my card if they weren't on the card themselves.

[Smoke'n Mack]

Mo, what happens if you turn your birds eye off? Will the topo come back? I ask this because when I hunt where I have not downloaded the birds eye for that area, I do not get my old topo either.

I'm pretty sure there is a "maps menu" in the garmin that you can choose which maps to display...topo, birds eye, etc. I figured if you had both on the unit, you could check to have both on...BAM, overlay. Without my Astro in front of me, I don't know where the menu is.

[CAP]

Mo, what happens if you turn your birds eye off? Will the topo come back? I ask this because when I hunt where I have not downloaded the birds eye for that area, I do not get my old topo either.

I'm pretty sure there is a "maps menu" in the garmin that you can choose which maps to display...topo, birds eye, etc. I figured if you had both on the unit, you could check to have both on...BAM, overlay. Without my Astro in front of me, I don't know where the menu is.

I believe Smoke'n Mack is correct. One of the issues of adding additional maps is that you MUST make sure each map file has a different name when you transfer it to the SD card or you are wiping out the pre existing file.

Add a topo & the birdseye and make sure both are set to on or active.

[Mo. Beagler 5000]

Mo, what happens if you turn your birds eye off? Will the topo come back? I ask this because when I hunt where I have not downloaded the birds eye for that area, I do not get my old topo either.

Yes, but only if its stored under s differnt file type and you don't accidentally wipe it out. For me, I have to take out my birdseye card to ge tthe top to work. From what I have been told and what I have experienced you cannot turn them both on at the same time...

If someone has done it, I would love to see a screen shot of it or post it too you tube because neither I or Garmin has figured it out....

I was rather disappointed when I found out how old the Birds Eye was that I paid for. It has to be 4yr old. Plus it was to difficult to know where the roads were in wooded areas.I will probably just go back to topo geographic maps.

I thought that Birdseye was directly linked with Google Earth...apparently not. The images of new area we moved to are absolutely horrible and dated. Even at the highest resolution download the images blur if you zoom in at all....keep in mind Google Earth images of the same spots on my computer are crystal clear and images were just shot back in April.

At the old place I could zoom into the tree my dogs stopped to pee on....I will be lucky to know where I am at in the woods with the images of the new spots.

There is a TON of reasons why garmin can't run and never will (at least thats what they claim now) have the capability to run google earth. The licensing is astronomically expensive.. The subscription would be over 175 a year and the sd card needed for the detail of google earth would be in the hundreds of gigabites range per every couple hundred mile blocks, would take forever to load, and there is somehting about having to be hooked to google's servers as well. Its unfortunate even though some areas of the country are just as good as google earth, not many are. I hope in the next verion of basecamp you can overlay topo maps on it. I know you can use google earth to pin point your location on basecamp but thats about it