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Mapsource Micro SD Chip
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| Stan W. 2008-01-27, 3:33 pm |
| Does anyone know if I have the North America micro sd card in my GPS can I
still upload and download waypoints between the GPS and Mapsource mapping
software? Thanks.
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| Jack Erbes 2008-01-27, 3:33 pm |
| Stan W. wrote:
> Does anyone know if I have the North America micro sd card in my GPS can
> I still upload and download waypoints between the GPS and Mapsource
> mapping software? Thanks.
Yes you can. Waypoints (and routes) are not stored on the microSD card
on the Garmin models that use microSD cards. Waypoints are stored in
the main memory of the unit. Tracks are the only data that can saved to
the microSD card from the GPS receiver.
Jack
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| Cooter 2008-01-27, 3:33 pm |
| Custom POIs (the ones loaded via POI Loader, are also stored on the microSD
card in a folder named 'poi'.
"Jack Erbes" < jackerbes@roadrunner
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> Stan W. wrote:
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> Yes you can. Waypoints (and routes) are not stored on the microSD card on
> the Garmin models that use microSD cards. Waypoints are stored in the
> main memory of the unit. Tracks are the only data that can saved to the
> microSD card from the GPS receiver.
>
> Jack
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| theslaz 2008-01-27, 10:33 pm |
| I just received my Dvd from Garmin this week.I loaded MapSource and it
works great. I used it to creat some Waypoints and attempted to load them on
my SD card. They loaded okay but they don't show on the GPS. Are you saying
that I have to load them on the GPS itself before they show?
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| Frank Tabor 2008-01-27, 10:33 pm |
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On Mon, 28 Jan 2008 02:00:35 GMT, "theslaz" <theslaz@gmail.com> wrote:
> I just received my Dvd from Garmin this week.I loaded MapSource and it
>works great. I used it to creat some Waypoints and attempted to load them on
>my SD card. They loaded okay but they don't show on the GPS. Are you saying
>that I have to load them on the GPS itself before they show?
>
Depends on your model GPS unit.
--
Frank Tabor
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| Jack Erbes 2008-01-27, 10:33 pm |
| theslaz wrote:
> I just received my Dvd from Garmin this week.I loaded MapSource and it
> works great. I used it to creat some Waypoints and attempted to load them on
> my SD card. They loaded okay but they don't show on the GPS. Are you saying
> that I have to load them on the GPS itself before they show?
>
You need to tell us which GPS model it is. On some models you can
upload the waypoints to the receiver and it will not read them from the
card. And there are other models that work exactly the opposite.
Jack
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| theslaz 2008-01-28, 7:33 am |
| Whoops! My Bad! It is a Nuvii 250W. Me thinks I read some where that
MapSource and Nuvii's don't get along.
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| Jack Erbes 2008-01-28, 3:33 pm |
| theslaz wrote:
> Whoops! My Bad! It is a Nuvii 250W. Me thinks I read some where that
> MapSource and Nuvii's don't get along.
>
That is another of the nuvis that was intended for entry level GPS users
and, for that reason, has been designed to pick a destination and go to
and do little else. I think you can add one intermediate stop to a
route once you have it started. I think of the nuvis as the "dumbed
down" Garmins.
Many of the features that were on previous generations of GPS receivers
are not on the nuvis. One of those is the ability for the user to
create a route on a PC in MapSource and upload it to the GPS.
You say you just got a DVD from Garmin, did they send you that for free?
They were doing that for a while when the nuvis first came out and it
would be interesting to hear if they are still doing it that way.
I don't have a nuvi and probably never will, I like the old stuff that
lets me plan on the PC. I also like to be able to use multiple
destination routing to control routing and collect tracks of my travels
as I go. Those are more of the things the nuvis either don't do at all
or don't do well.
If I remember right from discussion here, you can build routes in
MapSource and send them to a SD card as a *.gpx file (card either in a
reader or a USB connected GPS receiver). When your nuvi powers up in
the navigation mode it will find the *.gpx file and offer to save the
map points or waypoints in the route to your nuvi as favorites. It will
not send the route as a collection or group of map points or waypoints
though, which was another of the old ways.
Garmin has added a few of the "missing" features back to the high end
models like the 550 or 660. Those will store 10 routes now and I think
the routes can be uploaded from MapSource.
Garmin probably dumbed all their products down so they could wait a
while and start inventing a series of newer and better GPS receivers by
slowing adding the features back. If they do it slowly enough, it will
result in another procession of people that keep upgrading to newer and
better GPS receivers.
Jack
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| Steve Calvin 2008-01-28, 3:33 pm |
| Jack Erbes wrote:
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> Garmin probably dumbed all their products down so they could wait a
> while and start inventing a series of newer and better GPS receivers by
> slowing adding the features back. If they do it slowly enough, it will
> result in another procession of people that keep upgrading to newer and
> better GPS receivers.
>
> Jack
I think you hit it right on the head Jack. "Dumb it down,
then gradually add back all of the 'nice stuff', and charge
more for the old features again".
Meanwhile, you and I can sit here with our 76CSx's (I think
that's what you have) and be just happy little clams with
systems that do most everything. ;-)
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Steve
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| Jack Erbes 2008-01-28, 10:33 pm |
| Steve Calvin wrote:
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> I think you hit it right on the head Jack. "Dumb it down, then gradually
> add back all of the 'nice stuff', and charge more for the old features
> again".
>
> Meanwhile, you and I can sit here with our 76CSx's (I think that's what
> you have) and be just happy little clams with systems that do most
> everything. ;-)
>
And isn't it wonderful to have attained a stasis sorts in what, for a
long time, seemed to be a never ending need for newer and better models?
My mapping is good for another year or two, and the 76Cx for several
years or more. I just can't imagine what would do all the things I do
with that any better.
But I will be sad if the Colorado line signals the end of software
development for the "x" series models.
I still want to be able to someday use all that wonderful storage
capacity to store routes and waypoints. That is the only things
prevents people from traveling with unlimited numbers of routes and
waypoints. It is hard to believe that Garmin missed that feature in
their software design, especially since the Magellan Meridians had it
years ago.
Jack
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| Dan Anderson 2008-01-28, 10:33 pm |
| Jack Erbes wrote:
& #91;snip]
> And isn't it wonderful to have attained a stasis sorts in what, for a
> long time, seemed to be a never ending need for newer and better models?
>
> My mapping is good for another year or two, and the 76Cx for several
> years or more. I just can't imagine what would do all the things I do
> with that any better.
>
> But I will be sad if the Colorado line signals the end of software
> development for the "x" series models.
>
> I still want to be able to someday use all that wonderful storage
> capacity to store routes and waypoints. That is the only things
> prevents people from traveling with unlimited numbers of routes and
> waypoints. It is hard to believe that Garmin missed that feature in
> their software design, especially since the Magellan Meridians had it
> years ago.
I would hope for an "x" series with the SiRF DiRect chipset but
I guess that is very unlikely.
Copying waypoints, routes, and track to and from the memory
card would be great. It's amazing (or not so amazing based on
experience) we don't have it.
MapSource version 6.12.3 is around 20 times slower at
reading a GPX file than some competitors such as
GPS Utility and ExpertGPS. I reported it last Spring.
If the current version is just as slow, I wonder if
that will ever be improved.
--
Dan
(Email: dan at domain below )
(www.gpsmap.net)
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| theslaz 2008-01-28, 10:33 pm |
| Thanks for your replies.
Garmin sent the DVD within 10 days of my email request to them. No charge!
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> Steve Calvin wrote:
> <snip>
>
> And isn't it wonderful to have attained a stasis sorts in what, for a long
> time, seemed to be a never ending need for newer and better models?
>
> My mapping is good for another year or two, and the 76Cx for several years
> or more. I just can't imagine what would do all the things I do with that
> any better.
>
> But I will be sad if the Colorado line signals the end of software
> development for the "x" series models.
>
> I still want to be able to someday use all that wonderful storage capacity
> to store routes and waypoints. That is the only things prevents people
> from traveling with unlimited numbers of routes and waypoints. It is hard
> to believe that Garmin missed that feature in their software design,
> especially since the Magellan Meridians had it years ago.
>
> Jack
>
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| theslaz 2008-01-29, 7:33 am |
| You are right about the Nuvi. I received it as a Xmas gift. I would never
purchase one on my own. I have a Magellan RoadMate 800 that I prefer;
however; the Nuvi is working; the Roadmate isn't ( screen display went and
I'm waiting for warranty )
I planned a route using MapSource using several waypoints. I saved it as a
..gpx file and copied it to the Nuvi ( not the SD card as it appears it won't
work that way ). The way points showed up individualy as favorits and not as
a complete route. Oh well; better than nothing I guess.
Now if I could only figure out a way to import maps from MapSource. Me
thinks that's not possible with the Nuvi!
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