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

  • From: Mary Ellen Earls <meearls@xxxxxxx>
  • To: gps-talkusers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sun, 10 Mar 2013 12:57:39 -0700

Yes, it does, thanks!
Mary Ellen
On Mar 10, 2013, at 8:48 AM, Chris Grabowski <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 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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