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borgmaster Occasional Visitor
Joined: Dec 28, 2004 Posts: 25 Location: Doncaster. South Yorkshire
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Posted: Fri Sep 11, 2009 5:49 pm Post subject: Canary islands and 255W |
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Are the Canary Islands on the 255W? If not where does anyone know where I can get a map of all the Canary islands for the 255W? |
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dales Frequent Visitor
Joined: May 04, 2008 Posts: 752 Location: Knaresborough, North Yorkshire.
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Posted: Sun Sep 13, 2009 6:11 pm Post subject: |
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I haven't tried them, but you could download these and see if they work on your unit.
Rename it gmapsupp.img and copy to your SD card, in the Garmin folder alongside the POI folder (if any).
Dales. |
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borgmaster Occasional Visitor
Joined: Dec 28, 2004 Posts: 25 Location: Doncaster. South Yorkshire
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Posted: Sun Sep 13, 2009 8:33 pm Post subject: |
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Thanks Dales for that. I`ve managed to put Fuerteventura onto the SD card and checked some addresses which it has recognised. I`m out again in late October and will try it out on the ground. One thing as I put the Fuerteventura map with the name you suggested do I put Lanzarotte as a seperate folder? If so what name should I call it? |
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dales Frequent Visitor
Joined: May 04, 2008 Posts: 752 Location: Knaresborough, North Yorkshire.
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Posted: Sun Sep 13, 2009 10:56 pm Post subject: |
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Again, I haven't tried it, but see this post for what looks to be a very useful link from Gatorguy.
I'll be checking it myself shortly - it's just what I was wanting to know myself!
Dales. |
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hgm Occasional Visitor
Joined: Oct 25, 2005 Posts: 50
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Posted: Mon Sep 14, 2009 12:01 pm Post subject: |
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The Canary Islands are on the standard Western Europe map. At least they are for the 765 map. I can even navigate there from the UK. They appear on MapSource as well.
I haven't used it there yet because I had a TomTom last time I went. The TeleAtlas map was very unreliable in Gran Canaria - it tried to drive me over a cliff . The Navteq one looks much better. |
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dales Frequent Visitor
Joined: May 04, 2008 Posts: 752 Location: Knaresborough, North Yorkshire.
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Posted: Mon Sep 14, 2009 2:28 pm Post subject: |
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If you've got MapSource, you should be able to combine the two downloaded maps into one. Create a mapset by selecting each map in turn with the map tool, then transfer it to the satnav.
Dales.
PS: hgm is right. The Canaries are on my 255WT. |
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borgmaster Occasional Visitor
Joined: Dec 28, 2004 Posts: 25 Location: Doncaster. South Yorkshire
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Posted: Mon Sep 14, 2009 2:33 pm Post subject: |
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Spoke to some one on another forum and he says Canary islands are on Garmin maps of Europe and work well. However as a recent convert from TOM Tom not tried out my nuvi 255W. Tried to find it on the unit but couldn`t see it. |
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hgm Occasional Visitor
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Posted: Mon Sep 14, 2009 3:09 pm Post subject: |
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It's under Spain for country and not Canaries or individual islands. I f you choose Spain as country, it will find cities in the Canaries. |
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