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sigh, just a bit busy to do my 'here's the 705 stuff you need to know' so I'll lob it on the end here.
I've used sportstracker on my N95 and moved onto the 705 for my cross london stuff where I had nfi where I was going. (I need my passport to go east ok?)
It's fine. however: - the mounts break and the GSC10 (the cadence and optional speed thingy) might fall off/break/go on holiday.
see: http://www.benmanson.com/junk/garmin_review/review_update2.htm
If you have just got a 305/605/705 I highly recommend mod'ing your mount before your lovely GPS screen explodes in bits as the c*r behind runs over it.
yes.. WAH WAH MAPS COST £$££$$ well actually...
see: http://www.ravenfamily.org/andyg/maps/ get the http://www.ravenfamily.org/andyg/maps/OSM-Garmin-Munky-UKIE.zip thing down, expand it and
READ THE FINE .TXT that comes with it :-)
Put the files on a card, stuff into your ?05, change the background setting and off you go.
He overlays the LCN Cycleroutes on it, so you can follow/avoid as you wish. it's based on openstreetmap and is fully routable if you have a 705. (and maybe 605)
So you can have a gpxx (the extra x is important) and it will use the routing engine to say 'turn left'. (I haven't got this working yet)
alternatively I use bikehike.co.uk and save as .tcx and it will put in a 'coursepoint' for the turn xxx feet ahead. (I have got this working.)
As it's based on openstreetmap - if you spot a problem (one way streets wrong etc) you can fix it :-)
AndyG updates his maps every week or so - (openstreetmap push out new versions then he adds his bits on top)
I'm happy to explain/show/etc at next West drinks (assuming I make it alive out of tomorrows meeting)
//a