City Navigator - Diet down to save memory?

[+infiniteMPG]

I have a Garmin MAP60C (yeah, wish I'd of waited a little longer for the 60CSx but oh well). I got City Navigator as a gift and love the features. The problem I run in to is with limited memory of the 60C we can only load in 1 or 2 mapsets (the state of Florida is 4 mapsets if I recall correctly). What we were wondering is if there was any way to reduce the amount of detail that we can upload to the 60C to save memory? For example, can we just load the street maps and not the restaurants/gas stations/various POI and stuff to get more streets loaded without the POI clutter memory use? With Mapsource we can control the detail displayed but it always seem to upload the entire map detail information to the GPSr. Any way to upload less detail?????

 

Also, the NOTES screen section for a POI/geocache on the 60C looks like it could display about 150 characters or more of text, but when entering information (manually or via GSAK) it stops at 30 characters. Is this just the way it is or is there a way to use the display space for more text?

 

Thanks!

[+Sputnik 57]

AFAIK, the only way to reduce map memory is to omit turn by turn directions, which prevents the unit from autorouting on local roads. Generally too high a price to pay for most uses.

 

The notes screen is an enigma. Users have complained to Garmin and on this forum about he +/- 30 character field in a much larger display area to no avail. Not sure what the firmware resource allocation problem is, but it must not be trivial, because they have done nothing to fix it in firmware updates.

[+Thrak]

I sold my 76Cs and bought the 76CSx. Problem solved. Entire US/Canada/PR plus a bunch of topo maps all on the removable microSD card. Plus I have much better satellite lock. Probably not what you wanted to hear but......... sell the 60C and get the 60Cx and a 2GB card.

[+infiniteMPG]

I sold my 76Cs and bought the 76CSx. Problem solved. Entire US/Canada/PR plus a bunch of topo maps all on the removable microSD card. Plus I have much better satellite lock. Probably not what you wanted to hear but......... sell the 60C and get the 60Cx and a 2GB card.

Was thinking along that line but already have a 2Gb SD from the camera I am scrapping. Thanks!