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2610 Map Help Needed
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| Mel Long 2005-06-18, 6:55 am |
| I bought a new 2610, a 2.2 gig cf card, and the Metro Guide for Canada.
Wondering how to go about putting my maps on the cf card now. Should I put
on only the US maps from City Select and then the Canadian maps from Metro
Guide, or should I just put all the maps on? Looks like all of them total
1954.5 MB, so there's room. If I put all the maps on, is there going to be a
problem with the duplicate maps for Canada? Don't have a card reader yet
and the program says 3.5 hours to download all of it. Guess I could leave it
on when I go to bed. Any help would help. Thanks.
Mel
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| >I bought a new 2610, a 2.2 gig cf card, and the Metro Guide for Canada.
quote:
>Wondering how to go about putting my maps on the cf card now. Should I put
>on only the US maps from City Select and then the Canadian maps from Metro
>Guide, or should I just put all the maps on? Looks like all of them total
>1954.5 MB, so there's room. If I put all the maps on, is there going to be
>a problem with the duplicate maps for Canada? Don't have a card reader yet
>and the program says 3.5 hours to download all of it. Guess I could leave
>it on when I go to bed. Any help would help. Thanks.
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> Mel
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If the 2610 works like most Garmin's you would always see the City Select.
To use the Metroguide from the map page menu select 'Setup Map' then find
the option to 'Hide City Select". I'm sure someone with a 2610 can confirm
if this works or not and the actual way to access it.
Speed
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| Mel Long 2005-06-18, 4:55 pm |
| I know when I first got it I loaded a City Select map in to try it out. Then
I loaded a Metro Guide map into it and the City Select map disappeared. In
the options there was only te Metro Guide map mentioned, so I was thinking
that there's have to be a way to load both at the same time. I see the
MapSource problem will let you do this, so I'll experiment with it today.
Thanks.
Mel
"Speed" <no mail please@newgroup.only> wrote in message
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> If the 2610 works like most Garmin's you would always see the City Select.
> To use the Metroguide from the map page menu select 'Setup Map' then find
> the option to 'Hide City Select". I'm sure someone with a 2610 can
> confirm if this works or not and the actual way to access it.
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> Speed
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| >I know when I first got it I loaded a City Select map in to try it out.
quote:
>Then I loaded a Metro Guide map into it and the City Select map
>disappeared. In the options there was only te Metro Guide map mentioned, so
>I was thinking that there's have to be a way to load both at the same time.
>I see the MapSource problem will let you do this, so I'll experiment with
>it today. Thanks.
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> Mel
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With MapSource you have to chose your maps in one product then toggle to the
other to chose those maps and load to the GPSr at the same time. Try
loading a small area of City Select and the same area of Metroguide at the
same time. On the GPSr you should see the City Select Map. In order ot see
the Metroguide Map you have to hide the City Select. At least that is how
it works on my 76CS. Someone should chime in about how and if this works on
the 2610. If the 2610 does not allow the overlay then you must decide which
product you prefer to use for that area and load parts of each loaded at the
same time or load both products on sepatate cards and swap as needed.
Speed
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| Dave M 2005-06-18, 4:55 pm |
| I have 2 questions - why City Select as City Navagator is a standard part of
a SP 2610 package and why Metroguide as in either case, most of the Canadian
maps are part of CS or CN 6.
"Mel Long" <mel@knifemaker.ws> wrote in message
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quote:
> I bought a new 2610, a 2.2 gig cf card, and the Metro Guide for Canada.
> Wondering how to go about putting my maps on the cf card now. Should I
put
quote:
> on only the US maps from City Select and then the Canadian maps from Metro
> Guide, or should I just put all the maps on? Looks like all of them total
> 1954.5 MB, so there's room. If I put all the maps on, is there going to be
a
quote:
> problem with the duplicate maps for Canada? Don't have a card reader yet
> and the program says 3.5 hours to download all of it. Guess I could leave
it
quote:
> on when I go to bed. Any help would help. Thanks.
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> Mel
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| Melvin Long 2005-06-19, 6:55 am |
| Sorry to confuse you. I should have sid I had City navigator, not City
Select. Don't know where I got the Select bit from. City Navigator came
with the 2610, and it has detail maps of the US and not so good maps of
Canada. That's why I bought the Metro Guide Canada, to get the better maps.
I installed all the States from the City Navigator, and all of the Canadian
Provinces from the Metro Guide onto my 2.2 gig flash card without
overlapping any parts, and it works fine. I have both maps checked and since
they don't overlap anywhere I won't have to uncheck either. Took about 4
hours to load them with the USB cable.
"Dave M" <davem@nojunk.cinci.rr.com> wrote in message
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>I have 2 questions - why City Select as City Navagator is a standard part
>of
> a SP 2610 package and why Metroguide as in either case, most of the
> Canadian
> maps are part of CS or CN 6.
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> "Mel Long" <mel@knifemaker.ws> wrote in message
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| Dave M 2005-06-19, 4:55 pm |
| For the area in Canada that I travel - where my family live, I think the
maps are good. That includes Montreal, the Laurentian mountains, Eastern
Townships, and the area that I travel when we drive in either throught
Windsor or Niagra areas.
It also has Edmonton, so I know that it has areas far from the border.
"Melvin Long" <mel@knifemaker.ws> wrote in message
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quote:
> Sorry to confuse you. I should have sid I had City navigator, not City
> Select. Don't know where I got the Select bit from. City Navigator came
> with the 2610, and it has detail maps of the US and not so good maps of
> Canada. That's why I bought the Metro Guide Canada, to get the better
maps.
quote:
> I installed all the States from the City Navigator, and all of the
Canadian
quote:
> Provinces from the Metro Guide onto my 2.2 gig flash card without
> overlapping any parts, and it works fine. I have both maps checked and
since
quote:
> they don't overlap anywhere I won't have to uncheck either. Took about 4
> hours to load them with the USB cable.
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> "Dave M" <davem@nojunk.cinci.rr.com> wrote in message
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| Melvin Long 2005-06-20, 4:55 pm |
| Well, I wasn't too impressed with the maps for small towns. The Metro Guide
has street maps for towns that have less than 30 people in them. The
Navigator didn't have any streets for my home town of 3,000 people. With my
job I deliver to some pretty odd places so I wanted the detail. I live on a
farm and the Metro Guide has the little private road that goes to my house
marked and I can navigate right to my door step. There's also a real good
supply of POI for the smaller towns too. I guess if you don't need the
detail it doesn't matter though.
Mel
"Dave M" <davem@nojunk.cinci.rr.com> wrote in message
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> For the area in Canada that I travel - where my family live, I think the
> maps are good. That includes Montreal, the Laurentian mountains, Eastern
> Townships, and the area that I travel when we drive in either throught
> Windsor or Niagra areas.
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> It also has Edmonton, so I know that it has areas far from the border.
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> "Melvin Long" <mel@knifemaker.ws> wrote in message
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> maps.
> Canadian
> since
> yet
> leave
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