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My wife just bought this but i actually want a gps to attach on my bike and also where i can upload routes which i can download from websites from bike clubs or just from the internet. It appears poised to replace the etrex series, bringing all of the oregons touch screen goodness while retaining the etrexs small form factor, light weight and long battery life. The dakota 20 enables you to quickly download up to 2,000 caches, with information such as location. I think i have managed to download onto my computer but cannot seem to export it over. Basecamp displays topographic map data in 2d or 3d on your computer. Upload new waypoints, routes, and tracks to your garmin gps.
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Dakota 20 comes with a builtin worldwide basemap, so you can navigate anywhere with ease. However you can delete the entire collection of routes intentionally or otherwise from the dakota s internal memory by deleting any old route files from garmin gpx and uploading a different group of route files. I would like to download some maps to it so that i have something other than the. Mapsource products provide geographic data in cdrom format that can be viewed on a pc. Aug, 2012 garmins dakota 10 an inexpensive alternative gps for bikes posted by kevin williams survival skills. We delete comments that violate our policy, which we encourage you to read. Jul 30, 20 the garmin dakota 20 is a smaller and lighter version if the garmin oregon series. Garmin dakota 20 gps navigation full specifications.
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