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| dale_peterson 2006-06-15, 5:48 am |
| Hi All,
OK here's where I am with my Meridian Gold. I've had it rebuilt by
Magellan and it works great. I also installed an Ultra II one Gig SD
card and it seems to be OK. I would like to down load data from the
Send Direct Data disk to the one gig SD. The question? Can I put
the CD in my computer and simply transfer all the state data files or
do I have to load them to the SD using the install disk. Will the
Meridian gold know what to do with theMap files if they are
transfered straight from the Data disk to the One Gig SD.
Appriciate any assistance.
Thank You
Dale Peterson
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| Ron Hunter 2006-06-16, 9:57 am |
| dale_peterson wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> OK here's where I am with my Meridian Gold. I've had it rebuilt by
> Magellan and it works great. I also installed an Ultra II one Gig SD
> card and it seems to be OK. I would like to down load data from the
> Send Direct Data disk to the one gig SD. The question? Can I put the
> CD in my computer and simply transfer all the state data files or do I
> have to load them to the SD using the install disk. Will the Meridian
> gold know what to do with theMap files if they are transfered straight
> from the Data disk to the One Gig SD.
>
> Appriciate any assistance.
> Thank You
>
> Dale Peterson
First, the MapSend program has a file size limit for each file, so you
will have to select the regions carefully, and apply them to the SD card
one by one. Second, this process is VERY slow, and some models of GPS
require further conversion of the file before loading to the GPS, adding
an extra step. I don't know about the Meridian, but the eXplorist
requires using the menus to tell the GPS to use the correct file for the
region you wish to map in detail. The process is a bit tedious, but the
results are well worth the effort. Given the size of the resulting
files, I doubt 1GB will cover all the country. Most people will have
little use for detailed mapping for parts of the country they will never
visit.
This information is based on the MapSend DirectRoute V2 program, and
eXplorist 400 manuals.
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| Mike Schnierle 2006-06-16, 9:57 am |
| First, you must install the DirectRoute program on the computer. You must
define each region you want to upload. There is a size limit, and they must
be rectangular (which most states are not). Also, the larger the area in a
region, the slower the GPS seems to update when you are scrolling the map,
etc. Also, you have to decide which POIs you want to include in the region.
The more POIs you include, the larger the region file will be. Finally, you
need to overlap regions a little because DirectRoute cannot autoroute
between regions; this is because only on region can be active at a time in
the GPS. For example, if you have New York in one region and New Jersey in
another, you cannot do an autoroute from New York to New Jersey. Instead,
you would have to autoroute from your origin point in New York to the region
border while the New York map was active, then make the New Jersey map
active and start another route from there to your destination. So it makes
sense sometimes to have multiple states per region. In my experience, it
take 1.5 Gb or so to hold the entire USA part of the DirectRoute V.3 map
with a little overlap between regions. Finally, don't connect the GPS to
the computer to transfer the files. Put the SD card in a card reader to
transfer the files and the then replace the card in the GPS. It works much
faster, although the process overall is still slow.
Mike Schnierle
"dale_peterson" < dale_peterson@charte
r.net> wrote in message
news:_a7kg.627$nh2.596@fe04.lga...
> Hi All,
>
> OK here's where I am with my Meridian Gold. I've had it rebuilt by
> Magellan and it works great. I also installed an Ultra II one Gig SD
> card and it seems to be OK. I would like to down load data from the
> Send Direct Data disk to the one gig SD. The question? Can I put
> the CD in my computer and simply transfer all the state data files or
> do I have to load them to the SD using the install disk. Will the
> Meridian gold know what to do with theMap files if they are
> transfered straight from the Data disk to the One Gig SD.
>
> Appriciate any assistance.
> Thank You
>
> Dale Peterson
>
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| Ron Hunter 2006-06-16, 9:57 am |
| Mike Schnierle wrote:
> First, you must install the DirectRoute program on the computer. You must
> define each region you want to upload. There is a size limit, and they must
> be rectangular (which most states are not). Also, the larger the area in a
> region, the slower the GPS seems to update when you are scrolling the map,
> etc. Also, you have to decide which POIs you want to include in the region.
> The more POIs you include, the larger the region file will be. Finally, you
> need to overlap regions a little because DirectRoute cannot autoroute
> between regions; this is because only on region can be active at a time in
> the GPS. For example, if you have New York in one region and New Jersey in
> another, you cannot do an autoroute from New York to New Jersey. Instead,
> you would have to autoroute from your origin point in New York to the region
> border while the New York map was active, then make the New Jersey map
> active and start another route from there to your destination. So it makes
> sense sometimes to have multiple states per region. In my experience, it
> take 1.5 Gb or so to hold the entire USA part of the DirectRoute V.3 map
> with a little overlap between regions. Finally, don't connect the GPS to
> the computer to transfer the files. Put the SD card in a card reader to
> transfer the files and the then replace the card in the GPS. It works much
> faster, although the process overall is still slow.
>
> Mike Schnierle
>
> "dale_peterson" < dale_peterson@charte
r.net> wrote in message
> news:_a7kg.627$nh2.596@fe04.lga...
>
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I managed to get a part of Oklahoma, and most of the central part of
Texas, down to almost the Gulf coast and including OKC, Dallas/FtWorth,
San Antonio, Austin, and Houston in one region. I suspect that a larger
size could be possible for a sparsely populated area like Wyoming,
Montana, and North/South Dakota. Still, that one region takes about 65
meg. The real slow part was the conversion, and writing to the HD.
Conversion was fast enough, and writing to the SD card through my card
reader went quite fast. Still, like you said, the whole process is a
PITA, and it is fortunate I won't have to do it often.
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| rrx3@msn.com 2006-06-19, 7:33 am |
| You could try this:
Taken from the Yahoo Magellan group.
"Thanks to "jvavrus2000"
With the 3.08 version of the Meridian firmware, size restrictions on
the size of map files have been removed.
However, the existing MapSend software does not know this, and will
try to restrict the size of maps unless told
otherwise.
First, using Windows Explorer, navigate to the MapSend installation
directory. This should be under C:\Program
Files\Magellan. Open the MAPSEND.INI file using your favorite text
editor. Inside this file, there is a parameter
called "Conv_Memory_Size" which is the maximum region size in bytes.
Multiply this number by four, and you
should be able to have much larger regions. If this line does not
exist, then add the following line (case sensitive)
under the [Device Defaults] section:
Conv_Memory_Size=655
36
Note that the larger the region is, the longer your computer will take
to process this region. Processing a 64MB
region is likely to take a very long time. You are much better off
making smaller maps, and loading multiple map
files on your SD card, as described in question 13.
Large maps do have some side effect. The larger the map, the more
likely the map is to suffer from corruption. Maps
larger than 30MB are prone to corruption and very large maps can
result in slow screen updates (Topo seems to be
more sensitive to this than S&D). To minimize the chance of corruption
during map generation, run the Mapsend
software to create the maps and do not run any other programs, surf
the net, check your email – nothing, nada, nil.
Don’t even think about touching your computer.
On Wed, 14 Jun 2006 23:33:27 -0700, "dale_peterson"
< dale_peterson@charte
r.net> wrote:
>Hi All,
>
>OK here's where I am with my Meridian Gold. I've had it rebuilt by
>Magellan and it works great. I also installed an Ultra II one Gig SD
>card and it seems to be OK. I would like to down load data from the
>Send Direct Data disk to the one gig SD. The question? Can I put
>the CD in my computer and simply transfer all the state data files or
>do I have to load them to the SD using the install disk. Will the
>Meridian gold know what to do with theMap files if they are
>transfered straight from the Data disk to the One Gig SD.
>
>Appriciate any assistance.
>Thank You
>
>Dale Peterson
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| 3.Terra news 2006-06-23, 4:33 am |
| where do you get the firmware at?????
<rrx3@msn.com> wrote in message
news:nutc925oj5kmkp2
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> You could try this:
> Taken from the Yahoo Magellan group.
> "Thanks to "jvavrus2000"
> With the 3.08 version of the Meridian firmware, size restrictions on
> the size of map files have been removed.
> However, the existing MapSend software does not know this, and will
> try to restrict the size of maps unless told
> otherwise.
> First, using Windows Explorer, navigate to the MapSend installation
> directory. This should be under C:\Program
> Files\Magellan. Open the MAPSEND.INI file using your favorite text
> editor. Inside this file, there is a parameter
> called "Conv_Memory_Size" which is the maximum region size in bytes.
> Multiply this number by four, and you
> should be able to have much larger regions. If this line does not
> exist, then add the following line (case sensitive)
> under the [Device Defaults] section:
> Conv_Memory_Size=655
36
> Note that the larger the region is, the longer your computer will take
> to process this region. Processing a 64MB
> region is likely to take a very long time. You are much better off
> making smaller maps, and loading multiple map
> files on your SD card, as described in question 13.
> Large maps do have some side effect. The larger the map, the more
> likely the map is to suffer from corruption. Maps
> larger than 30MB are prone to corruption and very large maps can
> result in slow screen updates (Topo seems to be
> more sensitive to this than S&D). To minimize the chance of corruption
> during map generation, run the Mapsend
> software to create the maps and do not run any other programs, surf
> the net, check your email - nothing, nada, nil.
> Don't even think about touching your computer.
>
> On Wed, 14 Jun 2006 23:33:27 -0700, "dale_peterson"
> < dale_peterson@charte
r.net> wrote:
>
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| rrx3@msn.com 2006-06-29, 7:34 am |
| On Tue, 20 Jun 2006 21:27:22 -0700, "3.Terra news"
<pudski767@comcast.net> wrote:
>where do you get the firmware at?????
Try the Magellan website and also the Magellan yahoo group (you need
to register..)
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| Ron Hunter 2006-06-29, 7:34 am |
| rrx3@msn.com wrote:
> On Tue, 20 Jun 2006 21:27:22 -0700, "3.Terra news"
> <pudski767@comcast.net> wrote:
>
>
> Try the Magellan website and also the Magellan yahoo group (you need
> to register..)
MapSend Direct Route is not firmware, it is computer (PC) software, and
the version 3 on DVD is $149 list. You can find it much cheaper.
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