Wednesday, Apr 30, 2008 at 10:09
Hi Bruce,
I just posted this info on the BOG...Bushtracker Owners Group Form for another member there, so I just copied it over here for you.
First you will need to have a program called Mapsource installed on your computer. It usually comes with the Garmin CD.
Download the Zip file (330Mb) and then extract the files.... and then, click the "Setup File" in the extracted files folder and let it install them in Program Files like it wants to and when that's done....open Mapsource and then in the drop down box at the top left corner, select one of the 4 shonky maps there and open it in Mapsource.
To get the maps on to your memory card, you need to connect the memory card to your computer and then with your choice of maps open in Mapsource.....zoom right out so you can see all of Australia and Tas (About 700k on the zoom tab) and then click the "Map Tool" on the top tool bar and then click and drag to select all the map grids on all of the map. That done then you click the button to the left of the "Map Tool" button and it is the 'Send to Device" button....when the dialogue box comes up for that, select your memory card and "OK" and then Mapsource will format the maps and upload them to your card so you can pop it into your GPS.
When you do pop it in to your GPS, your preloaded maps held in your GPS internal memory will show as the default maps....you will then have to navigate to where you can "Deselect" the default and select the "Shonky Maps". In my NUVI 310, I had to go to the "Tools" option and go tothe map page and then select "Map Info" where I could see the City Navigator 7 with a
check dot next to it and Shonky Maps without a
check dot next to it.....just select Shonky after you de-select City Navigator 7 and then away you go......
You can get a good idea of the detail of all the 4 map sets when you view them in Mapsource......I went with Shonky Full Topo.....run that up and it shows you bores and tanks and windmills and repeater towers and airstrips and even fences and tracks to windmill and bores also contours with elevations.....have a look at the detail around a remote region like
Cameron Corner and zoom in to see....everything.....and then do the same with City Navigator 7 and be amazed at how little detail there is...
Make sure you have at least 220Mb of space on your memeory card for each set of maps you want to upload to it......Personally Full Topo is all you need.....
Hope this helps.
Cheers
Rick
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