After owning two 60csx's I recently bought an Oregon, waiting until I
thought the major bugs had been worked out of the Oregon and Base
Camp. Now using Base Camp to send my tracks to the Oregon, I find
that no matter what color I make the track in Base Camp that color is
not transfered! The transferred track color on the Oregon is always
cyan, requiring me to go through a tedious multi-touch process of
re-coloring each track via the Oregon touchscreen.
This is incredible to me, and it is difficult to believe that every
Oregon owner is having to re-color their transferred tracks. What is
the point of changing the color in BaseCamp when it is not going to
get transferred to the unit?? I am now thinking I should return my
Oregon and go back to my much more convenient-to-use 60csx -- for
which the track color in BaseCamp/MapSource is indeed the track color
in the GPS! -- but decided to post here first because perhaps I am not
missing something somewhere, even though Garmin support tells me that
yes indeed, I am required to re-color each track manually on the
Oregon. [This is not the only "useability" issue driving that decision
- I've found other track/waypoint treatment incongruities which make
using the Oregon more problematic thatn the 60csx.] I am using the
latest Oregon firmware and BaseCamp version.
