Mapsource For Dummies: Transferring Maps to your GPS
This is an easy one. If your one of the lucky buggers with a big memory card (2gig) then you can load all the maps for the whole of Europe once and then forget about this process.
Remember:
Every time you transfer maps to your GPS all the maps already on it are deleted. Your waypoints will remain on the unit so don’t worry about them.
Transferring All Your Maps:
I’ll describe how this is done first.
Open a new Mapsource file using the icon on your desktop.
Make sure you have the correct set of maps selected in the drop down list that you want to transfer. I’m using City Navigator Europe V8…
Set the detail drop down box to Lowest and zoom out to show the whole area of maps you want to transfer…
The picture above shows that as yet no maps have been selected. The map list on the left is empty and shows No Maps and 0 kb at the bottom of the list.
Click on the Map Tool…….
Click and drag the curser to create a box around the area of maps you want…..
When you let go of the curser all the segments of maps inside that box will be listed in the Map list on the left, it will also show how many segments and the total size of them all at the bottom…….
Click on File and then Save As, save this in you’re my Maps folder as something like
Complete Map set CNV8.gdb
Plug your GPS into your PC and select the Send to device icon. Make sure Maps is ticked then click send. Note: Make sure that there’s a tick next to “Include Route Calculation Data” at the bottom of the list…
Then go and pour a beer and watch a long film. The maps can take a long time to transfer.
Transferring just the maps required for one route:
Remember: Every time you transfer maps to your GPS all the maps already on it are deleted. Your waypoints will remain on the unit so don’t worry about them
I’ve not got a huge memory card which will hold the whole of Europe’s mapping. So if I plan a long route I need to load only the maps required by that route.
What I do is open my Mapsource file containing my route…
I right click on the route in the left hand Route list and click “Select Maps Around Route”…..
The map segments select turn pink and are listed on the left in the Map list.
At this point I look at how large these segments are. In this case they’re 85mb….
My GPS will hold 256mb so I select some more map segments around the route to give me some breathing space in case my plans change. I do this using the map select icon and click the curser on the segments I want. Each time checking what the total size has reached…..
When I’ve got the map set I need I save it. I Plug my GPS into my PC and select the Send to device icon.
I make sure Maps, Waypoints and Routes is ticked then click send.
See not that hard is it
Hybrid Mode
