+dwayne23 Posted January 20, 2007 Share Posted January 20, 2007 I have added South Carolina to my SD card and would like to add NC. and TEN. but when I try to it over writes SC. or it removes it one. I have a Merdian Gold and have had it for some time but have not used it any where but SC and would like to use going to Ten. We are wantting to find caches on the way up there and as we go. Can someone help. We like Ten. and want to try our hand at cacheing along the way. Dwayne23 and Faimly Quote Link to comment
strumble Posted January 20, 2007 Share Posted January 20, 2007 You must load all maps at the same time or it will only over write the previous set. Quote Link to comment
+embra Posted January 20, 2007 Share Posted January 20, 2007 In the Meridian FAQs linked in the sticky at the top of the forum, there is a topic entitled "Detailed Maps -- How do I use more than 1 map file?" It will tell you what to do. Quote Link to comment
+dwayne23 Posted January 21, 2007 Author Share Posted January 21, 2007 I tried loading all three at one time it says you can only load one. I tried making all three states one big one and it would not do it. I know I am doing something wrong. Quote Link to comment
+embra Posted January 21, 2007 Share Posted January 21, 2007 Detailed Maps -- How do I use more than 1 map file? If this doesn't give you the information you need to do what you want, post detailed steps so we can see where it goes wrong. Quote Link to comment
+Lucky46 Posted January 21, 2007 Share Posted January 21, 2007 I have a Garmin GPSMap 76CSx and as I understand Strumble, I must load all maps at the same time. I have a 2 G SD and already loaded Mapsource City Navigator N.A. and just aquired the Topo USA maps and would like to add the Western US. SHEESH! It took almost 3 hours to load the City Nav maps. So I need to reload them with the Topo, or lose them??? Oh, okay! Quote Link to comment
strumble Posted January 21, 2007 Share Posted January 21, 2007 I have a Garmin GPSMap 76CSx and as I understand Strumble, I must load all maps at the same time. I have a 2 G SD and already loaded Mapsource City Navigator N.A. and just aquired the Topo USA maps and would like to add the Western US. SHEESH! It took almost 3 hours to load the City Nav maps. So I need to reload them with the Topo, or lose them??? Oh, okay! Whatever you put on the SD card will be wiped out when you re-load even one extra maptile! Either put the different software on different SD cards or split them up into regions [with both CN and Topo] on seperate cards. You have found the dis-advantage of loading 2GB cards [3hours to load] instead of smaller cards with more regional details! Did it take 3 hours with a Card reader? I would never waste time loading CityNavigator Europe with countries I would never visit, [cost in time,] 3 hours every time I wanted to add anything. Quote Link to comment
+embra Posted January 21, 2007 Share Posted January 21, 2007 Lest we make things more confusing than they need be, let me note that the original question is about a Magellan Meridian presumably using some form of MapSend. Some posts are referring to Garmin products. The two require different procedures. Quote Link to comment
+dwayne23 Posted January 21, 2007 Author Share Posted January 21, 2007 Thanks to all of you. Embra I printed the documents last night and went through them. I will have to get a card reader and do it that way. I reloaded SC and it went right on. That's what I have got to do get a card reader. Thanks to you all. Quote Link to comment
+Lucky46 Posted January 22, 2007 Share Posted January 22, 2007 Just to answer Strumble..... I loaded the North America City Navigator on my 2 gig card in the GPS w/usb connection. 2 1/2 hours would be more accurate. I guess I didn't taste my words before spitting them out. I'll probably put the Topo on another card rather than go through that again. Sorry to butt in with a Garmin thing, won't happen again. Quote Link to comment
segler999 Posted January 23, 2007 Share Posted January 23, 2007 Lucky46, there is another issue with loading maps onto a microSD card. Garmin limits the map segment count to 2025, no matter how big the card is. Because of this, you cannot get all the western USA Topo onto the card, since Topo divides the world into very small, and very numerous, map segments. The other map products from Garmin use large-area segments so that the number of segments loaded at any one time is not all that large. Not so for Topo. What I find is that Topo segments for western USA max out at about 375mb due to the 2025 count limit. A bunch of us have been bugging Garmin to increase this limit or update Topo to use large-area segments. If you use Topo, the 1gig and 2gig cards are a waste. I use my 60Cx only for hiking, so Topo is all I ever use. For Topo the 512mb cards are the max practical size to install. Quote Link to comment
+Lucky46 Posted January 24, 2007 Share Posted January 24, 2007 Thanks to Segler999. I may just use the original 128 card to load whatever I need at the time. I'll put my 2 cents in with them too. This is all so much fun, the wife will just have to understand, it was well worth the money. (Actually, she is into it at least as much as I) Quote Link to comment
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