How do I get topo Aus map into gps unit using sd card ?

G'day Philip

Thanks for the reply !

I unticked the street map and ticked the topo map, then when I went to
" view map '' the street map still came up !

What should I do now ?


Thanks

Gazz

Thanks age

I think my problem is in Doug's reply followed by my reply to him !


Thanks for the reply


Gazz

Gaz

Still should work - the maps will be unlocked and licenced to the SD card and can be legally used in any compatible Garmin unit. If they were not unlocked you would get a message just after power up that the maps are locked. You do not need to register maps with Garmin for them to work. I have purchased legit maps on SD card from JA (a Garmin dealer) etc and not registered them and they work in all my units - the unlock code is tied to the SD card in this instance. I cannot vouch for the maps you have purchased on ebay as to their legitimacy, but if you did not get the locked message at boot with the SD card in then they are unlocked to that SD card and should work. Whether your ebay seller was authorised to do this (I doubt it !!) is another story I wont comment further on....

If you are using this in the city when testing at the moment the Topo 2 maps are very similar to the CN Australia street maps and hard to distinguish which set is turned on as the base data used for both map sets is similar (Topo 2 is a routable map for some regions as is CN Australia - have a go at panning away from a city with your maps and see what difference it makes and then turning just the CN maps on and then just the Topo maps and see if you get contours etc with the Topos (pick a mountainous area or similar and you will be able to tell the Topos.

Cheers

A

Thanks A


That's a great help ! I did not get a locked message so your tip will probably work when I'm a bit out of town.

If I could send you some beers thru the computer I would !!


Thanks again for your help


Gazz

Gazz

No worries

You do not need to wait to you are out of town - just hit view map button at start screen and then pan the map by sliding your finger across the screen. Hit the minus button to scale out a bit so each finger slide travels a few kilometres.

With Cn Aust turned off and Topo turned on you should see some contour lines - if you do you are viewing the Topo map set - if not ?? well maybe the ebay seller has dudded you.

Cheers

A

A

Picked up the contour lines out the front of my house so I'm guessing it works !

Thanks again !

The more time we spend on the computer means less time on the dirt !


Gazz

Thanks Doug

I'm assuming that when you say to the internet you mean the Garmin Australia
site ?
I bought the sd card with map installed off ebay and I'm now guessing that if it's a copy I'm not going to be able to register the map to my gps ???

Cheers

Gazz

Gazz

Yes... I do mean Garmin website , and as for your second question, I think you will probably find thats the case , People have to realise that when buying Garmin map software it must be bought direct from Garmin so you get serial numbers etc, unless you buy from a friend or an EO member so you will get all the codes with the software,

Good luck .

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when i bought my garmin topo from octa, i plugged it in no rego no numbers and it works on my garmin navigator and my hand held legend. The legend dont talk to me which may be a good thing.

owen