320 birds eye view

[reatj81]

  I ordered a 320 & 2 dc40 collars.  With this birds eye view will I need to get the map card? 

[ARhogdogs]

The mapcard will tell you the street names, rivers, creeks just like it did in the 220 just on top of a satellite image. If you don't have the mapcard you will see the rivers creeks pipelines, they will be satellite image instead of a defined line with a name on it. I have the mapcard and birdseye on mine. Can't beat it. The only thing I was dissapointed about was that all the descriptions of the 320 were that it has birdseye then when I get it in, you have to buy an annual subscription to actually use the birdseye. Hope this helps.

[HOGDOGGERSPC]

I BOUGHT THE 320 AND THEN BOUGHT THE CARD AT A STORE AND DOWNLOADED THE SUBSCRIPTION.  I SWEAT WHEN I READ SO I HAD A HARD TIME TRYING TO FIGURE IT OUT BEFORE I GOT IT RIGHT.  THERE IS A 800 NUMBER ON THE WEBSITE YOU CAN CALL FOR TECH SUPPORT.  THEY WERE VERY GOOD AND WALKED MY ELECTRONICALLY CHALLENGED SELF THRU THE PROCESS.   GOOD LUCK.  320 IS AWESOME THOUGH.

[mod93dirt]

I just got the 320 a few weeks ago, and I paid to download the birdseye. With the little bit that I have used it so far, the birdseye is a very cool feature. The only downside I find to the birdseye is when selecting an area to download in the basecamp program, it is kind of hard to highlight exactly the area you want without downloading a bunch of other land I will never be on. However, last night, I just downloaded the free topo map that is posted on here, and I think that will make it much easier to highlight the area that I want to download in Birdseye while in the basecap program. Also, with the basecamp program, the topo map and birdseye overlay one another, which is  especially sweet. Sometime this week I plan to get around to downloading the topo to my 320, then I should have the best of both worlds.

Garmin advertises the birdeye subscription for $29.99, but for what ever reason when I downloaded it, it rang up at $19.99. For either price I still think its a good deal. I have to imagine I will have most all of my hunting grounds downloaded within the years subscription time, and from the way I understand it, items already downloaded don't expire after the year is up.

[mod93dirt]

Just got done downloading the eastern half of OK on my 320 with a free map. Super easy and super cool!!

[TColt]

So you have to download individual sections of satellite image? You can't just download the state of texas or somethin like that?

[mod93dirt]

I suppose you could zoom the map out and highlight the whole state to download. I imagine that would take forever to load though, as it has taken awhile just to download the little bits that I have. Don't know how much memory that would use either. So far I have just loaded areas that I know I will be hunting.