great explanation chris!! > -----Original Message----- > From: gps-talkusers-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:gps-talkusers- > 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. > > Mary Ellen EarlsTo change your email settings (unsubscribe, digest > only, or vacation mode): > > http://senderogroup.com/social_media/email.htm > > > > Additionally, to unsubscribe send an email to gps-talkusers- > request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe" in the Subject. > > > > > > -- > > Developers of accessible GPS and distributors of technology for the > blind > > Office Phone: 888-757-6810 > > Email: chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > Sendero web: http://www.senderogroup.com > > General GPS Web: http://www.AccessibleGPS.com > > Sendero Address: 1857 Glenmark Way, Roseville, CA 95747 > > To change your email settings (unsubscribe, digest only, or vacation > mode): > http://senderogroup.com/social_media/email.htm > > Additionally, to unsubscribe send an email to gps-talkusers- > request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe" in the Subject. To change your email settings (unsubscribe, digest only, or vacation mode): http://senderogroup.com/social_media/email.htm Additionally, to unsubscribe send an email to gps-talkusers-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe" in the Subject.