The Dakota was a cinch to set up really, the only thing I discovered that isn't very well documented, is that you can load lots of garmin format maps onto the sd card in the garmin directory, with any filename you like followed by the .img suffix - previously I thought you could only have one map, I think, and it had to be called gmapsupp.img. So, it seems now you can download lots of garmin map image files from somewhere like cloud made, and load them all on without having to combine them into one file.

Most of the specific settings were cribbed from this setup guide for a garmin etrex legend:
http://mapkibera.org/wiki/index.php?title=GPS_Setup
Some settings aren't available or relevant, but it's a handy guide to run through...
Cheers!

Just a thought, but before you do too much in NZ - have you seen this page on the wiki?
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/New_Zealand

"Before you get too involved in mapping New Zealand, you should be aware that there is a large-scale data import in progress from Land Information New Zealand (LINZ) and the NZ Open GPS project. See the LINZ project and LINZ_Trial_Import for details on getting involved. Once the import is completed (and merged) with your help, you may well want to contribute to detail, but doing so beforehand might be a waste."

Cheers Ash, thanks for the heads up about the yard tagging - I missed that on the wiki tagging guidelines initially, but saw it quite late in the editing session. I'll go back re-edit the ones that have it missing.

Thanks Ash - I forgot to add highway=track :-)

x