Montana & OSM

[Peak]

Can anyone in the know tell me how I store the map info on the micro sd card and not the internal memory?

I've got a 32gb sd but all the maps seem to want to go on the internal memory on the Montana. Now I've got to the stage where the new maps I'm putting on are forcing the old ones off the machine as the memory is full

I've been downlaoding the "osm generic windows.exe" file I have tried to use the "osm generic gmapsupp.zip" and this just gives me a corrupt file warning, if I run it anyway it still works but still stores the info on the internal memory.

I am pretty new to this so I'm sure there's an obvious solution but I'm buggered if I can find it!

 

[John Armstrong]

Tried using Basecamp, select "Maps" on the row of commands at the top, and then "map install". When I update the maps I only download them to the PC and then use this technique to load them. It should give options of where you'd like them. I have a 32gb card and use it for City Nav & pictures.

 

[viv]

Does this help?

https://help.openstreetmap.org/questions/10087/using-osm-sourced-img-files-in-garmin-montana

My experience of a Garmin 60CS and OSM is that the instructions for OSM or any other basemap need to be followed to the letter so that means filenames and folder names need to be correct.

This might be fixed on the later Garmins like yours but use of the 60CS on a Mac as additional storage allows the Mac to write additional files and folders to the card and these files stop the new basemaps from working (at least!). The only fix I've found is to use a Windows machine to delete the additional files and folders.

Viv

 

[Peak]

Thanks guys I'll try this, I have been using Mapsource and not Base Camp to send the maps from the laptop to the Montana. I'll give this a try later and report back on how I get on

 

[Peak]

BaseCamp's the way forward! Sorted it now it's pretty simple when you know how

 

[Timpo]

Does this help?

https://help.openstreetmap.org/questions/10087/using-osm-sourced-img-files-in-garmin-montana

Yes, it answers an issue I am having.......