GARMIN & Mapsource
Submitted: Tuesday, Oct 29, 2002 at 01:00
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ExplorOz Team - David
Hi all,
Well it has been busy in the
forum today. Anyway I have a special note from personal experience related to all Garmin mapping GPS units. If you have an Australian Garmin GPS then you will find that the unit is loaded with what appears to be Mapsource World maps specific to the Australian region. This is not the case! All Australian purchased GARMIN mapping GPS units have a specific Australian Map Data file loaded. If you like me try to
test some other maps in your Garmin unit and blow away the Specific Australian Maps then the memory card of GPS unit will need to be shipped back the GME in North Ryde. Even if you have a copy of the WorldMap Mapsource CD with the mapping transfer software there is NO WAY to get the unit back into the factory supplied condition without sending it away.
Having spoken to GME and GARMIN I was a little upset by this however the only answer seems to be to purchase an additional memory card to be used for other maps or testing that you may wish to do. As there is no consumer way to download or upload the standard base maps into the units.
If I find out any more on this I will let you know but be very careful if you intend to purchase some Internet available GARMIN compatible maps and try to load them into your unit.
David
Reply By: Burnie M - Wednesday, Nov 13, 2002 at 01:00
Wednesday, Nov 13, 2002 at 01:00
This is NOT true - Garmin basemaps cannot be overwritten (except by Garmin)
If you have a Garmin GPSR with memory then you can load maps to memory (ie Mapsource WorldMap or City Navigator Australia or Metroguide Australia) and each time you download maps it will delete the previous user memory maps but not the basemap.
With early Emaps GME put additional Australian City
information on the memory card and this could be overwritten but it has never been possible for a user to delete the basemap.
Burnie M
Garmin GPS V with Mapsource Metroguide Australia
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Follow Up By: Exploroz Team - David - Thursday, Nov 14, 2002 at 01:00
Thursday, Nov 14, 2002 at 01:00
Burnie,Please confer with Ian Lyndquest from GME GARMIN Support, as I had to send back my equipment to him for reprogramming. This is the basis of my post it actually overwrite the basemap. Upon booting the unit after this overwrite all Aust data
information was gone and there was no way I could put it back without shipping to GME. David
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Follow Up By: Burnie M - Thursday, Nov 14, 2002 at 01:00
Thursday, Nov 14, 2002 at 01:00
Which unit do you have and how old is it ?
Again, the Garmin basemap is not user overwriteable (source GME and Garmin).
Perhaps you had some GME written data in the user memory.
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