Mapping and i3 done my reading just hoping for confirmation

Landyrob · Occasional Visitor Joined: Mar 11, 2006 Posts: 8

I have just bought an i3 and previously owned an SPIII. I have the latest version of mapsource with Version 5 maps installed. I have received and entered a new unlock code for the i3 serial number which was all OK. It appears I could download maps to the i3 if I wanted, I havent done this as I dont want to overwrite and lose the v8 UK maps.

Am I correct in believing that if I buy another blank microSD card and swap it into the i3 I can download the v5 maps in the same wasy as with the SPIII and use them with the i3 in the rest of europe?

Thanks in advance for any advice.

francisc · Posted: Sat Mar 11, 2006 11:49 pm Post subject:

Yes, you are correct.

But use it on a new transflash card
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Landyrob · Occasional Visitor Joined: Mar 11, 2006 Posts: 8

Just to update those considering this. Tried it with V5 uk maps (pointless I know and it worked) tried V5 maps of Sweden and it cant find cities or any POIs or any addresses.

I have asked garmin why?

fartyass · Occasional Visitor Joined: Feb 13, 2004 Posts: 26

The I3 uses City Direct Nt ? The NT bit is important as they are compressed diffrently hence NT(New Technology)
Loading anything but NT type maps will not be recognised by the I3

Landyrob · Occasional Visitor Joined: Mar 11, 2006 Posts: 8

will Mapsource CN 8 work OK?

zogman · Posted: Sun Mar 19, 2006 7:29 pm Post subject:

Landyrob · Occasional Visitor Joined: Mar 11, 2006 Posts: 8

I tried MP CN 5 maps of Sweden and the major towns of Uppsala and Stockholm were not shown in the list for addresses or Cities, also no hotels etc showed up on POIs. Never had a problem using this map data with my SPIII

Any Ideas?

zogman · Posted: Sun Mar 19, 2006 7:36 pm Post subject:

was this whilst in sweden or on simulation...if on simulation then that might be the reason...
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Landyrob · Occasional Visitor Joined: Mar 11, 2006 Posts: 8

It was on simulation, I did try UK addresses and POI from the same Mapsource and they worked OK (no postcode searxh but i expected that)

Why would it matter where I was?

Thanks

Rob

zogman · Posted: Sun Mar 19, 2006 7:45 pm Post subject:

if these cities show on your pc (mapsource) logically they should be on the i3 when you download the mapping....i can only think that in simulation mode there might be a glich...have you tried re-loading the mapping onto the card again and trying again...
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Landyrob · Occasional Visitor Joined: Mar 11, 2006 Posts: 8

Yes I did and tried various countries, the only one that seemed to download sensibly was the UK.

Strange thing was it acknowledged some towns but not the two biggest i tried, I have asked Garmin but no reply so far. I could u/g my CN to 8 but I would like to know it works before i shell out £45.

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