garmin Quest - ion!

[schnauzer]

Dunno what I've done wrong...............

Quest software v3.40, city select v7, mapsource 6.5

I'm off to Switzerland and Italy, corridor of maps across uk and france, plus Alps etc is around 150mb... oad all this in no problems. I then load 10 maps in of around 250 miles average each ie:-
Route 1 has 21 via points and 124 directions
Route 2 36 151
Route 3 30 141
Route 4 6 22
Route 5 9 38
Route 6 20 104
Route 7 20 116
Route 8 20 135
Route 9 25 157
Route 10 20 108

so nothing really amazing. When I load the last route I get a 'route waypoint memory full', followed by a 'route truncated' message. I fired this off to garmin and got an

Thank you for contacting Garmin Europe.

In regard to your email, it appears the units memory is full. You can either
remove some waypoints or transfer less mapping to the unit to replace the
mapping which is already on there ready for your next journey.

which seems like bolox to me!! I've already pared down the via points as much as possible, and even tried it with just 0.5mb of maps loaded and it still fails in the same place?? any ideas anyone?? Oh and I just used the route tool from mapsource to create the routes, and most routes have a couple of petrol stns as vias if that makes any difference. My friend with a quest getst the same problem with these routes so its not my unit!

 

[(RIP) sherpa]

too many waypoints

When you create a route the unit uses waypoints to navigate the route - they don't show up as waypoints as such but are still used by the memory. Try deleting a route and see what happens


Sherpa

 

[schnauzer]

thanks for that, thats kind of what I thought was happening, but its not overly brilliant if you can only fit 10 reasonable routes in the thing is it, I'm just going to miss out the route for the last day and do a 'Find home' Quest users planning big trips beware!!!
Its still somewhat better than my V would have been

 

[adamski49]

Schnauzer

Thanks for the heads up. Just encountered the same problem... then solved it, although admittedly I only have 7 complex routes as opposed to your 10.

Before uploading your routes and waypoints delete all those already in the unit as they are not automatically overwritten in the way that the maps are.

Deleting routes is easy. Route planner, menu, delete all.

Deleting waypoints is not so easy. Find, my Locations, delete all results in the unit re-booting - I think this is to stop you deleting the Garmin waypoints . Quickest way I found was to delete by symbol, still took a while though.

HTH

Adam

 

[schnauzer]

Yup I'd tried that, completley cleared the thing... deleted maps,tracks and routes and still couldn't fit all 10 in...........

 

[adamski49]

Aah, bugger. The only other advice I can give is when you set up each days route only enter the start and end points and insert the minimum of via points to force the route where you want it to go - one neatly placed via point midway along a twisty little road normally forces it to do what you want.

Apologies if you've already tried this as well (you did mention you've minimised via points) but I must just be lucky enough to have scraped in as I also have 10 routes but two of these are autoroute blasts on the first and last days so not many via points.

Adam

 

[Fanum]

Or take a smallish laptop with you and load all the maps as you go

I've got a crappy old pIII 750 thingy...it's a work one actually but it's been to eastern Europe, up and down the alps and across the Sahara so far......


The biggest advantage is being able to download all the pcs from all the cameras on the trip so you can snap away to your heart's content...plus you can take saved copies of all the town guides, lonely planet type guides and anything else that you might need on the thing.

(even a few 'films' for entertainment around the camp fire )

 

[Speggo]

Or take a smallish laptop with you and load all the maps as you go

I've got a crappy old pIII 750 thingy...it's a work one actually but it's been to eastern Europe, up and down the alps and across the Sahara so far......

Ideal solution would be some GPS management software for an iPAQ. Don't know of anything though.

 

[longdog]

Correct me if I'm wrong, and I know you will, but doesn't a 2610 accept flash memory cards? Couldn't you simply load everything onto a card with more capacity and be done with it? BTW, I don't have a stanav system, but I am thinking of getting one soon, so any pointers as to which one wouls help.

 

[Alphason]

Correct me if I'm wrong, and I know you will, but doesn't a 2610 accept flash memory cards? Couldn't you simply load everything onto a card with more capacity and be done with it? BTW, I don't have a stanav system, but I am thinking of getting one soon, so any pointers as to which one wouls help.

You're probably right about the 2610 but the problem is associated with the Quest.