Garmin talk

I looked around a bit, and it didn't seem like this question has been asked before...

I just got my first GPSr, an Etrex Venture HC. It has a screen called "Highway" that seems to be pretty much useless unless you're navigating (a route or just to another point). It doesn't show any map data, at least not from the basemap or the map I made from OSM data.

any pictures of how people are mounting their nuvi?

Hey, I just bought a Streetpilot, and the map is at least a year out of date. Do you get a map update when you register the unit or do I have to buy an update?
Thanks

I am a nuvi 750 user. I find one location saved in favorites which shows latitude and longitude under the saved name for example "001". I dont know how does it happen and can somebody tell me about it and teach me how to do that again?

When using the "FIND" feature to search for a particular city, the search results show EVERY place name, no matter how big or small. What's worse, the small, lightly populated places show up first in the list. Is there a way to exclude the small places? Also, is there a way to have the results sort by distance?

(BTW, I have a Street Pilot 2730.)

-Dave

I'd like to share my way of mounting solution.

As you can see on a pictures i have modified Garmin's mounting for Nuvi 750 and i believe it could be done for any GPS, Thinkpad etc.

http://picasaweb.google.com/pbereg9/MYGPS

Somebody broke into my car a few days ago and swiped my radar detector and the power cable for the Nuvi 350. (Which was in the house...awww..too bad.) Can anyone tell me where I can get the equivalent cheap? The factory cable is 28 bucks. It looks like a standard piece, like a car cell phone type of cable.

Anybody in TX get coordinates on that UFO? Gotta keep track of those aliens.

I am in the process of deleting languages in the Help, Text and Voice folders. All i want to leave is American English and Spanish. In the Text folder, should i erase all of them but Spanish? because American English is not there. Only British english.

I don't know if this has been known for some time, but I'm still a brand-spankin' new user fumbling my way through the concept of creating .csv files and just ran across this: http://earth.google.com/earth_plus.html