Up dating Maps

[Norrie]

Hi folk's i have recently purchased the City navigator v9 and the ulock codes to up date my 2610,however on going to purchase a new compact flash card (4gb) I have been told that it won't work as the mappi ng is to big and very very slow in up loading

can anyone advise me on this matter

Many Thank's

Norrie

 

[Bmmike08]

2610 storage cards

Hello Norrie,

I have a BMW Nav II which is based on the 2610 and I use a 2gb card which takes nearly all 2009 Mapsource. I actually use 2 x 2gb cards and load the second one with similar maps but adding those I could'nt get on the first card and leaving off some others. I tend to split the maps in North and South Europe (and UK).

I was led to believe that the 2610 can use up to 2gb cards but have also heard that some people have used highercapacity cards.

Personally I find the 2gb card fine and it does on all these units take 2-3 hours to load all the maps.

As you likely know when you open Mapsource and start clicking the maps they appear in the box to the left and at the bottom of this box is the capacity you are using in gbs.

Hope that's helpful.

Mike

 

[Norrie]

Thank's Mike

I had thought of using two card's and put Eastern euorope on the second one

Thank's again

Norrie

 

[Steve]

it does on all these units take 2-3 hours to load all the maps.

Not if you use a card reader rather than uploading them direct to the GPS.

 

[Norrie]

I have bought a 4gb memory card as all maps are @2.6gb. But when I try to send them to the unit it says there are only 2040mb available. I have been back and exchanged the card as the first one said the same. Any ideas as to what the issue might be?

I played with the idea of UK & Ireland on one card and Europe on another, but I till need @ 2.4gb for the Europe mapping.

 

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I have bought a 4gb memory card as all maps are @2.6gb. But when I try to send them to the unit it says there are only 2040mb available. I have been back and exchanged the card as the first one said the same. Any ideas as to what the issue might be?

I played with the idea of UK & Ireland on one card and Europe on another, but I till need @ 2.4gb for the Europe mapping.

the card may need formatted from fat32 till NTFS to handle bigger than 2gig files

 

[Norrie]

how do I do that?

 

[Bumpkin]

the card may need formatted from fat32 till NTFS to handle bigger than 2gig files

Will a 2610 read NTFS