something a bit odd here
I have a handheld Garmin Venture Cx gps with a small screen (170x220 or so).
I uploaded a street map to the gps through Mapsource (it's Ibycus USA). On my computer screen in Mapsource the maps look great, I can see a bunch of street at once.
Unfortunately, it does not quite work out like that on the GPS. Basically, when I'm at low magnification it only shows one or 2 big freeways and nothing else. I'll increase the magnification and still nothing much, until finally all the streets pop up. But unfortunately, at the point where I can actually see streets and names, the mag is so high that I can only see something like a block or a couple hundred yards worth of streets on the little screen so not very useful for wide navigation.
Is this a matter of my very small screen pixel count?
Is this a quirk of my GPS or Ibycus?
Is that the case with OEM Garmin street maps also?
Basically, I would like to see a progressive hierarchy of streets, where you see smaller streets as you zoom in but still see a few arteries at low mag. Here it's kinda all or nothing.
Normal?
Common?
I have a handheld Garmin Venture Cx gps with a small screen (170x220 or so).
I uploaded a street map to the gps through Mapsource (it's Ibycus USA). On my computer screen in Mapsource the maps look great, I can see a bunch of street at once.
Unfortunately, it does not quite work out like that on the GPS. Basically, when I'm at low magnification it only shows one or 2 big freeways and nothing else. I'll increase the magnification and still nothing much, until finally all the streets pop up. But unfortunately, at the point where I can actually see streets and names, the mag is so high that I can only see something like a block or a couple hundred yards worth of streets on the little screen so not very useful for wide navigation.
Is this a matter of my very small screen pixel count?
Is this a quirk of my GPS or Ibycus?
Is that the case with OEM Garmin street maps also?
Basically, I would like to see a progressive hierarchy of streets, where you see smaller streets as you zoom in but still see a few arteries at low mag. Here it's kinda all or nothing.
Normal?
Common?
