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01/16/2013 09:35PM  
I have a Delorme PN 60. My old cheap Garmin orients the screen so I'm looking at it in the direction I'm headed, this one doesn't. There's a menu item "Enable Screen Rotation" or some shit like that but it doesn't seem to do anything. Any suggestions?
 
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schweady
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01/17/2013 07:26AM  
I don't own one of those units, but I do see on page 14 of this manual that 'MENU > Map Setup > Orientation > Heading Up' should do it for you.

Garmin calls it 'Track Up.'
 
01/17/2013 03:38PM  
The 60 has a new operating system, but if it is similar to my PN40 you can,
switch to a map screen
press the menu button and the map menu pops up
pick orientation to select North Up, Heading Up, or Course Up.

butthead

PS; Looked into the PN60 manual and,

Allow Screen Rotation

Select this check box if you want the screen to rotate when you view the device
upside down. When rotated, the arrow keypad adjusts to match the device’s orientation.

Orientation

You can set the map to rotate as you move.
To change the map orientation
From the Map Page, go to MENU > Map Setup > Orientation and select the map orientation from the drop-down
list. bh
 
Savage Voyageur
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01/17/2013 04:34PM  
schweady and butthead answered the question. I would just add yours must be set to north up. I don't like that on mine either. I have mine set to Track up. Very easy to change this.
 
01/18/2013 05:01PM  
Gracias, muchachos. Actually it's not that big a deal in the BW, but when you're floating a river that's meandering all over hell it really gets annoying. BTW, I have campsites and shit like that marked, it's really hard to get lost on a river.
 
01/18/2013 05:47PM  
Careful, you might become a mapping geek.

butthead
 
01/18/2013 06:35PM  
I've been called worse, and justifiably
 
01/18/2013 10:00PM  
Yeh, heading up, that's the deal. My neighbors, aka "the sleeper cell", were a little nervous about me walking up and down the driveway in my sleeping clothes sorta talking to myself and holding an unknown device in my hand. They'll get over it, or not, it really doesn't matter to me.
 
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