Magellan GPS: Mapsend Topo question

com wrote: 
I have DirectRoute V2, and it does have detail maps for the US and
Canada. On the wrong computer to verify, but I believe it also has much
of Mexico. BTW, making a 1.3GB file for a 1GB card isn't really a good
idea....
Given how long DirectRoute takes to make a map of only 64mb, even on a
fast 64 bit machine, I don't know that I would want to mess with a 1GB
file. Perhaps the TOPO software is faster.


As for Goto processing, it is pretty slow. For a 150 mile trip (fairly
complex routing), it took about 5 minutes. Don't do the 'goto' process
while moving as it just confuses the machine. A better plan is to
identify main points along the way and set up goto routes for each of
them as you go. Note that the goto will be remembered even if the unit
is turned off.

The conversion manager prepares the data for the eXplorist. It is
necessary.

com wrote:

 

You can't choose a province. You can mark regions and upload them to
your eXplorist.

Start Mapsend Topo on your computer and, zoom out so all of the province
you want is showing.

Now go to the top bar and click on "Regions".

In the dropdown menu choose "New"

Hold the left mouse button down, and drag the mouse over the whole
province you want. (It will create a square or rectangular area which
will cover a bit of the neighboring provinces, but that's no big
problem).

When you let go of the mouse button, you will be prompted, give the
region a name.

Now click on "Regions" on the top bar again and in the dropdown
menu select "Upload to GPS"

Follow the instructions

Thanks for the replies.... I created a 1.3 gb image max as someone
mentioned somewhere else that the entire base map is just under 1.3gb
so that would let me later buy a larger SD card and upload the entire
basemap. I now have detalied (*.MGI) basemap of eastern canada and also
a detailed (*.IMI) topo map of eastern canada and both working fine.
Bums you out to have to get two lots of software that are only good
with one unit...guess they only want to sell one per person and you
have to take it from vehicle to ATV or Ski-Doo ... must be more money
in multiple mounting brackets..lol Who's running this
company...hehe I migrated from a Garmin to this and for the life of
me I don't really know why? The learning curve is massive and I'm
pretty technically capable.

The squaring of regions I got no problem but I figured you could
somehow just load in one province or one state but guess this is not to
be. Like you said no big deal but just wanted to create overlapping
regions and states on the SD card so the machine hopefully would
automatically migrate from one to the other instead of having to load
in a large basemap. The large basemap works okay but takes a wee bit of
time to load up on first booting the GPS but after that appears to work
okay as the unit only loads the zoomed area into memory and shifts as
you move from that area to the next ...



Jim Townsend wrote: 

Jim Townsend wrote: 
In the interest of time, save it to disk, and use a Flash card after
converting to eXplorist format.

<com> wrote in message
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You have some of your concepts mixed up. The North American Basemap is
built-in to the device and does not require any action on your part. One
does not load a detailed basemap. A basemap is by definition an overview of
a geographical area. A basemap of all of North America should be less than
sixteen megabytes in size. When you zoom in, you are using the detailed map
rather than the basemap.



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Earl F. Parrish