Nav V maps help reqd. please.

[Ex-Call Centre Chimp]

I'm going to the USA and Canada later this year & have a Nav V.
I'd like to add the North America maps before I go but have been looking at Garmin's site and when it asks what model I have the Navigator V isn't shown as an option.
I'd also like to add a lot of music as well.

So I have a number of very basic questions and apologise in advance for my idiot factor.

1) What model do I tell Garmin I have?
2) Should I buy a pre-loaded SD card? Or
3) Should I buy the download and add it to a 'blank' SD card (if that's the right phrase)?
4) Where should I store the music? Can I add it to a pre-loaded SD card with the maps already on or to a blank SD card that I have subsequently added North American maps to?

If the advice is to buy a blank SD card I'm thinking of going for a 64 GB card.
I'd like to add maybe 200-250 albums.

Apologies again, I imagine some of you are rolling your eyes at my stupidity.

I could ask Garmin but I know I'll get better, quicker, more understandable advice on here.

 

[Wapping]

The Nav V is available in America, so it's a very safe bet Garmin do maps for it.

I can't see any good reason why either buying a US map set pre-loaded onto a suitable SD card shouldn't work and / or downloading the maps from a Garmin website onto a card yourself. Have a look at the 660, as the mapping software should be the same I think and it shares the same micro SD card.

BMW's press release says that the device can read cards up to 64 gb, so that's OK.

There are lots of good sites detailing how best to create music files for use on a Garmin device.

 

[Andy B]

I've used THIS SITE a number of times to create my own maps. Detail is generally at least as good as garmin's own. Managed to plot the whole of the western half of the TAT from Durango to Port Orford with no difficulty.

 

[DRTBYK]

City Navigator North America NT will certainly work on the NAV5. If it were me I would purchase the DVD so that I had more flexibility of using the map in BaseCamp without having the NAV5 connected. OSM maps are also a good [free] option but the OSM maps don't have quite as many POIs and depending upon the area may not have quite the road detail.