Re: MapSource Topo 2008 downloading maps question

In article <1186659825.574175.14250@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
SQ <onestatusquo@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I have a 60CSx with a 2GB card with MapSource 2008 Topo.
I noticed that you can load only 2025 maps at one time.
That seems to be a limit imposed by MapSource topo 2008.

The limit is in the firmware. The firmware notes for v2.60 include
- Increase loadable maps to 2025

I don't see anything in the newer releases to indicate it has gone
up further. The current release is v3.50 August 2, 2007.

http://www8.garmin.com/support/download_details.jsp?id=1245

Now when I go to load another 2000 maps or another 1 GB (say midwest
to Colorado), it overrides what I just downloaded, and when I look at
the maps on the device, I no longer have the east coast.
It writes them on top of the previously downloaded devices.

Yes, that is how mapsource works. You cannot append maps to the unit.
You need to specify everything and download it as one big lump.

So it seems my restriction is not 2GB but 2025 maps, which work
out too less than 1GB.

Just think of all the tracklogs you'll be able to keep :-)
--
Jim Prescott - Computing and Networking Group jgp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, University of Rochester, NY
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