MapSource Topo 2008 downloading maps question

I have a 60CSx with a 2GB card with MapSource 2008 Topo.

I noticed that you can load only 2025 maps at one time.
That seems to be a limit imposed by MapSource topo 2008.


I can load the entire east coast, up to say Kentucky, about 2,000
maps which take 940MB. That works fine. That should be only
about 50% of my card's capacity.

Now when I go to load another 2000 maps or another 1 GB (say midwest
to Colorado), it overrides what I just downloaded, and when I look at
the maps on the device, I no longer have the east coast.
It writes them on top of the previously downloaded devices.

So it seems my restriction is not 2GB but 2025 maps, which work
out too less than 1GB.

Please help, how can I download the entire 2GB of maps?

Is this a firmware issue?

It is generally true that all downloads overwrite previous downloads
regardless of the size. Collect all your maps in one set and download
them all at once.

Dale

SQ wrote:

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_ _ Dale DePriest
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The limit is in the firmware. The firmware notes for v2.60 include
        - Increase loadable maps to 2025

I don't see anything in the newer releases to indicate it has gone
up further. The current release is v3.50 August 2, 2007.

        http://www8.garmin.com/support/download_details.jsp?id=1245


Yes, that is how mapsource works. You cannot append maps to the unit.
You need to specify everything and download it as one big lump.


Just think of all the tracklogs you'll be able to keep :-)
--
Jim Prescott - Computing and Networking Group        jgp@seas.rochester.edu
School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, University of Rochester, NY

Here is someone who has come up with a software manipulation to get around
the segment limit by combing map segments. It seems to be for the computer
literate and requires some patience. For Topo 2008 only, I believe. Not an
endorsement, I don't even own the TOPO software.
http://forums.groundspeak.com/GC/index.php?showtopic=170615

SQ wrote:

Yes. Also in the 76Cx and it take hours to download them.

Ted