matthewrate Posted July 22, 2013 Share Posted July 22, 2013 (edited) Hi all, I just purchased an Oregon 600 and loaded it up with several maps. The maps are 4GB, 3GB and 1GB in size plus the built in basemap. The unit probably takes about 30-45 seconds to load up since adding the maps. It takes this amount of time each time it starts up so I imagine it runs a full index each time. The maps are loaded on a 32GB SanDisk Class 10/UHS1 MicroSD card. Can anyone else comment if this is normal and happens with your units as well? Thanks Matt Edited July 22, 2013 by matthewrate Quote Link to comment
+splashy Posted July 22, 2013 Share Posted July 22, 2013 (edited) Bounce Edited July 22, 2013 by splashy Quote Link to comment
+splashy Posted July 22, 2013 Share Posted July 22, 2013 (edited) The amount of maps on a modern Garmin is about 4 Gb and/or 4000 or so maptiles, now this maximum might be a bit questionable, but it seems you really have to much maps. 1 Map 4Gb seriously??? What map is that? If you have all maps selected it slows down the Gps. read this http://garminoregon6xx.wikispaces.com/Maps Edited July 22, 2013 by splashy Quote Link to comment
snowfleurys Posted July 22, 2013 Share Posted July 22, 2013 My OR300 takes about 10 seconds per Gb. The Canada topo by Ibycus is nearly 4GB. Quote Link to comment
+splashy Posted July 22, 2013 Share Posted July 22, 2013 I thought so, because it's to large for a streetmap. The point is, the OP probably never knew there's a map limit. Quote Link to comment
matthewrate Posted July 22, 2013 Author Share Posted July 22, 2013 Yes, one of the them is in fact Ibycus TOPO Canada (4GB). The other is an OSM routable map for Canada (~1GB) and another for the USA (~3.5GB). There is also a KMZ map of Algonquin Park (~300MB). I happened to buy a 32GB SD card for the heck of it as it was cheap thinking I would just load up all the maps I could possibly want and just toggle them on and off as needed. The GPS is speedy enough once it's loaded up, it just takes a bit of time getting to that point. Guess it's normal! Thanks guys! Quote Link to comment
+Mineral2 Posted July 22, 2013 Share Posted July 22, 2013 So, if your maps are not transparent, then having more than one map enabled at a time for a given area will sometimes cause issues. I've experienced such problems with my 450t where it can take well over a minute for the map to update on the screen. It's mostly a problem when I'm driving and the map has to update a larger area more often. But I've experienced lags while geocaching by foot as well. It's rather annoying. It may also be that I have many GPX files with almost 1000 caches in them, but disabling maps helped. Quote Link to comment
+Berta Nick Zoey Posted July 22, 2013 Share Posted July 22, 2013 You have close to 9GB of maps that need to load each time you fire up the unit. Imagine any program on a normal computer that was 9GB in size (Im guessing not too many programs exist like that). But, even though the 600 is the latest and greatest, Im guessing that the processor inside is faster, compared to previous GPS units but no where near as fast as a computer. So, I venture to say that loading that much data could take as much time as you are saying it would take. Unless I'm travelling far and long, I see no reason to have areas on my GPS that Im not planning on going to. Thus saving time when firing up the unit. Quote Link to comment
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