Strange how when you buy a new toy, the old one unit you have loved and used and got to know so well quickly goes in to the ' I won't need that again ' drawer.

So I bought a HCX for the ability to cache straight to the micro SD card for days on end, even when caching at 1 second intervals. My old Garmin Legend ( such an improvement on by original orange Etrex ) has been idle for a month.

My HCX was given to a colleague ( thanks Michael ) on Thursday who is going to be doing a bit of driving around Bangladesh. All I showed him was the 'ON' switch and a Car Cigarette adaptor to USB power lead which will power the Garmin so he doesn't even have to worry about batteries.

But I want to walk Dhaka tonight I'm bored, so it took a couple of hours to work out how to upload a map to my old Garmin Legend ( blue ) - easy when you know how - EXPORT an OSM from the web page tab - convert with MKGMAP and upload to the Garmin using MAPUPLOAD.

What was a little odd was that the first two attempts I naturally used JOSM (1607 ) to download a couple of areas, merge these areas into a single layer and save that layer as an OSM to then convert. Didn't work - well not properly. The Garmin would only see the last area downloaded - bit of a puzzle but then JOSM is map editing tool - not a dedicated Import / Export utility - any clues anyone ? Cheers Bri