[gps-talkusers] Re: problems sychronice maps to card:

  • From: "George B" <gbmagoo@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <gps-talkusers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sun, 10 Mar 2013 09:05:08 -0700

great explanation chris!!

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> bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Chris Grabowski
> Sent: Sunday, March 10, 2013 08:48
> To: gps-talkusers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [gps-talkusers] Re: problems sychronice maps to card:
> 
> Hi,
> When you get the announcement 1 map region registered, this means that
> you have access to one country region, such as the north America bundle
> (United States and Canada.)  If you heard the message two map regions
> updated you might have North America and Europe.
> 
> This has nothing to do with the 9  zip files that comprise the united
> states.
> When you download 1USAwestcost you are downloading California,
> Washington and Uta.
> When it downloads maps1westcost it unzipps them into your maps folder
> on
> your PC.
> This is why when you synchronize you are not seeing the west coast
> region you are seeing the 3 states that comprise that region.
> 
> When you synchronize to your card the system is smart enough to sort
> the
> maps into the map folders on your card.
> For example, if you select California and Washington it would send both
> of those states into your maps1westcost folder.  If you were to select
> California Washington and New York, California and Washington will go
> into the maps1westcost folder and New York will go into the
> maps6northeast folder.
> 
> When you bring up the maps switcher in 2012 and 2013 you are given the
> names of the states instead of the maps1westcost folder as most users
> don't care where the maps are, they just want an easy way to find the
> state or group of states they are interested in.  Lets suppose you are
> transfering New York to your card.  By default New York goes into
> maps6northeast folder.  Now as a user that might not go to New York
> often, do you really care what folder it is in?  No, you would care
> that
> you can pick new york from a list.
> 
> If you downloaded all 9 regions that make up the united states and hit
> f4 to synchronize, all states in your maps folder on your PC would be
> selected.  Pressing enter would send all states to your card and sort
> them appropriately.
> 
> Hope this makes sense.
> 
> 
> On 3/10/2013 11:12 AM, Mary Ellen Earls wrote:
> > Hi!
> > Every time I try to synchronize maps outside of my region I get error
> messages. Now when I first got into the GPS Maps program, it said one
> region registered.
> > Ok if this were the case, then why was I allowed to download all of
> the regions to the pc and whenever I sync or try to, I only see state
> by state maps and none by regions.
> > I have to be missing something somewhere along the brain department.
> > Thanks in advance.
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