2610 Compact Flash

[Firegus]

I want to upgrade my Compact Flash card in my 2610, currently a 256mb.

I bought the City Navigator Europe 2008 DVD, to upgrade from City Navigator V6, and want to put more maps on the unit.

What would you recommend?

 

[richie]

I think 2GB is enough, but to get it all on... it'll have to be bigger. But when was the last time you went to half the countries in Europe....

BTW I have 4GB

BTW2 its 2.4GB all together

 

[claw]

Beware though, all units seems to work with a 2gb card, but only some will except one larger than that.

You'll get nearly all of europe with a 2 gb one.

 

[Firegus]

Cheers for that, it has a sandisk card in it at the moment, is it better to get the same make?

 

[MickDB1]

I have a spare 1 GB disc if you want it
It holds 875mb of memory of mapsorse or quite a lot of europe
If you want all of europe you need a 2 GB card at least

HTHY
Mick

 

[wessie]

Cheers for that, it has a sandisk card in it at the moment, is it better to get the same make?

My 2610 works quite happily with a generic 2GB card from www.7dayshop.com - a tenner delivered. Kelkoo suggests you can get branded ones cheaper elsewhere http://shopping.kelkoo.co.uk/ctl/do...iteSearchQuery=CompactFlash+2GB&fromform=true
I've ordered stuff from MX2 before so the Integral one at £8.30 delivered looks a good buy, plus they do a card reader for £2.99 http://www.mx2.co.uk/default.asp?part=CFUSB

If you don't already have a card reader then get one. As you see, they are only a couple of quid. Uploading 2GB of maps directly to the 2610 via a USB cable will take forever.

 

[Firegus]

Thanks again for all the info.
I`ve just tried to upload some new routes from the PC to the GPS and its coming up with "the routes do not match the maps" although i`ve got City Navigator Europe 2008 showing on mapsource on on the GPS.
I have only uploaded Scotland at the moment due to the small card and the routes are all well within Scotland.
I`ll try a bigger card and see if it helps

aaaarghhh!!!!!

 

[Firegus]

Sorry to be a pain, but, is it worth paying the extra for the Integral Compact Flash i-Pro Card 1GB (40x) does the speed make a difference?

 

[Bumpkin]

The speed rating is the speed that the card an be written to, no real relevance for GPS use that only reads in normal use.

 

[Firegus]

Okay, saved myself a few bob there then,

 

[Norrie]

I think 2GB is enough, but to get it all on... it'll have to be bigger. But when was the last time you went to half the countries in Europe....

BTW I have 4GB

BTW2 its 2.4GB all together

Richie,

Did you have any issues with your mapping? I have bought a 4gb sandisk to save all v9 mapping onto (2.6gb) But when I try to 'transfer to device' I get a screen message saying that only 2040mb is available

 

[richie]

Richie,

Did you have any issues with your mapping? I have bought a 4gb sandisk to save all v9 mapping onto (2.6gb) But when I try to 'transfer to device' I get a screen message saying that only 2040mb is available

No issues, I bought the device off of here and have never checked that it is 4GB... I will do so today.....

(edit) Just checked, scandisk ultra 2 4GB all working fine... HTH.... Version 2008 but I don't think that makes a difference

 

[Norrie]

Thank's Richie

Norrie