2014.40 Maps

Kremmen · Posted: Sun Feb 02, 2014 6:47 am Post subject:

I did purchase an additional 4Gb card to be safe as mine was getting close to capacity after the first map update. I didn't check space after the last update.

I'll check later in the week when I update my cams.
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Garmin 2599 LMT-D (Indoor test rig)
DashCam:
Viofo A119 V3
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sussamb · Posted: Sun Feb 02, 2014 9:39 am Post subject:

wibbley · Regular Visitor Joined: Feb 08, 2007 Posts: 97

erm, yeah, an img file

on the SD card which only had POIs on it till the latest update now has a folder called garmin and in it, 4 files

gmapprom.gma
gmapprom.img
gmapprom.unl
gmappupdate.gsd

.img being the biggie and the others only 3,1, and 0 k in size.

The original map file that came loaded on the sat-nav is actually bigger at 3,391,963 KB

There are some big files in the System directory on the internal memory. Are they needed and are there any I can delete to free up enough space to get the map back onto the internal memory? I have 2GB free, thus need to clear just under 4GB.

sussamb · Posted: Sun Feb 02, 2014 1:50 pm Post subject:

Any big files there will be needed. Things like junction view files.

CDK · Posted: Thu Feb 06, 2014 2:24 am Post subject:

sussamb · Posted: Thu Feb 06, 2014 9:07 am Post subject:

Well Express should have realised the card was there, but glad the clone method worked. I use it everytime as no danger then of my satnav being messed up Wink

M8TJT · Posted: Thu Feb 06, 2014 9:35 am Post subject:

wibbley · Regular Visitor Joined: Feb 08, 2007 Posts: 97

seems the most sensible option to update maps on a sd device as per sussamb's method. Having a spare card would allow a fallback if it all went south. I rely on sat-nav every day so would be stuffed if it went down.

Have tried googling garmin nuvi clone, but do not seem to find the website described. Plenty of forum posts about it though. I don't see the harm in posting the link here. It is not as if we are trying to do anything underhand.

It is strange that garmin express elected to put the new map on my sd card rather than on the device, even though the new map is smaller than the old. However I have less space than I should on the internal memory now the map is on the sd card, so I wonder if additional files were put on the internal memory.

Still get Maccy D appearing over my new map :o( I have emailed garmin my complaint about it several times.

As far as sd cards go, have seen on an unrelated forum of how larger sd cards up to 64GB have been formatted to fat32 so they work with devices that otherwise would be limited to a smaller sd card.
https://www.sdcard.org/downloads/formatter_4/

sussamb · Posted: Thu Feb 06, 2014 5:28 pm Post subject:

Don't believe there is an issue posting the link, the best explanation for cloning I've come across is here http://www.poi-factory.com/node/39231

Note that there is now a mention in that link about MapUpdater not working with the latest maps, I'm not sure that is 100% correct as MapUpdater is working fine for me.

While larger cards often do work in garmin GPS the official Garmin line for the nuvi satnavs is cards up to 8Gb https://support.garmin.com/support/searchSupport/case.faces?caseId={18331ce0-4af6-11e3-f27b-000000000000}

CDK · Posted: Thu Feb 06, 2014 8:54 pm Post subject:

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