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It will keep track of all your moves til you clear it.

I believe the limit is 10,000 points in my Nuvi 760. We just finished a 1460 mile driving trip with lots of scenic back-country and shoreline roads. When we got back, I only had about the last 900 miles worth of the tracks. Apparently, after it reaches it's limit, the Nuvi 760 starts deleting the older tracks. Fortunately, I had uploaded everything from the 760 about 2/3 of the way into the trip. I was able to copy and paste the earlier tracks into the final upload of the later tracks. This allowed me to retain most of the trip tracks. They are all time-stamped, so it's easy to see where the old leave off and the new begin.

I would gather from this that the limitation is in the Nuvi, not MapSource and not in the GPX file either. After combining the tracks in MapSource, I have a single track of 12,368 points, which comprises 1193 miles of 1460 total.

Can't say what the limit is with your 205w, but it might be similar to the 760.

The GPS Map60 creates a new "active log" every time it's turned on to save a track even if you don't move. There's an option to save to the internal memory or write to the SD card so if you write to SD the file can be as big as your memory card. If you don't use the SD it will 'wrap' the file when the internal memory is full and start over-writing the data.

The Map60 also let you select options for how to log the track points by setting distance, time, etc. between them or letting the gps do it automatically based on its own criteria. I have mine set to auto and in just a 7-8 mile hike it's logged from 500-700 track points. So 'auto' builds a every detailed trail.

By the way, it is really fun to look at tracks on Google Earth using the Visualizer tool built into MapSource. TOPO maps are nice but the Google view is a neat change of pace! Try it.

Sorry, I've never tried this before so I'm probably asking really dumb questions. But I've looked at the GP Visualizer site and read thru some of the FAQs. I can't get "track" data to show up, just POI's. I've located the Current.gpx file on my 650 and uploadded that to GPS Visualizer. Any simple answers for me?

Thanks,

The nuvi 650 doesn't support tracklogs.

Well... that explains it. Thanks,