

- #GARMIN MAPINSTALL SOFTWARE HOW TO#
- #GARMIN MAPINSTALL SOFTWARE INSTALL#
- #GARMIN MAPINSTALL SOFTWARE DRIVERS#
- #GARMIN MAPINSTALL SOFTWARE UPDATE#
No updates were shown relating to better quality maps the "Worldwide DEM Basemap" is the only one installed.
#GARMIN MAPINSTALL SOFTWARE HOW TO#
So, looking online for how to add maps links me back to the Express application, which I have setup and connected and synced to the device. I know there is the web-based option through Explore, but connecting a physical wire works better for the parent involved and he may actually be working in locations with no Internet connection. do in a single application?Īnyway, I think getting good quality maps on both Basecamp and the device and connecting them via USB cable would be sufficient.
#GARMIN MAPINSTALL SOFTWARE UPDATE#
Fine that there is a separate app for fitness, but why can Basecamp or similar not do the update stuff that Express, MapInstall, etc. I get that there are different use cases that these cover, but they are not clearly described and often loosely refer to each other without explaining each component's core purpose. I am now on evening two of this odyssey and I have come across so many pieces of software to potentially solve the problem that I have almost lost track: He's not that tech savy and as I work in consumer electronics I thought it would be straightforward enough to set it up for him to do some basics (set/view waypoints on a decent map and transfer these to his laptop at a later time). Everything works now.So, I haven't used Garmin's products much in the past but my father got a GPSMAP 66S for surveying archaeological sites and similar. I took the newly installed maps on the SD card and placed it back in the Garmin GPSMap 60CSx. Instead of a two hour process, the whole process took less than 10 minutes. The Garmin MapInstall recognized the SD card as a place to transfer the maps to. I first removed the SD card from my Garmin by removing the batteries and extracting the SD Card. To make a long story short, I updated the maps using the SD card installed in my Garmen. Kinda funny thing, using the Garmin through a Windows Virtual Machine running on the Mac, it worked as expected.
#GARMIN MAPINSTALL SOFTWARE DRIVERS#
I learned that the Garmin USB Drivers are slow on the Mac. Or at least that is what the progress bar said it would do.
#GARMIN MAPINSTALL SOFTWARE INSTALL#
I had attempted to install Utah, Idaho, Oregon and Washington maps on my Garmin GPSMap 60CSx. I have tried over the past couple of weeks to get it to work. I used Garmin MapInstall for the first time today with success. I don't own a Mac, but transferring all of CityNav NT to my 60CSX takes about 2 1/2 hours if I write to the GPSr (USB 1.x), but only 1/2 hour if I write to the mSD in a USB2.0 card reader. Which GPS unit? If MapInstall can write to a card reader as well the unit, you may save significant time by having it install the maps to the mSD card.

Or maybe it has something to do with City Navigator Europe 2010.ĭoes anybody else have this problem with Mapinstall? Why is it taking so long this time? Maybe I chose more tiles than last time (Mapinstall doesn't say how many tiles have been chosen: it just gives an indication of the total size, a bit less than 2GB in this case). I'm going to have to leave it running overnight.


At the moment it's telling me that it needs 4 hours and 36 minutes to finish, but since it told me two hours ago that it needed 4 hours and 22 minutes to finish, I'm not inclined to believe it. I know it's not frozen, since the progress bar is moving, even if at much less than a snail's pace. I started the map installing process about nine hours ago and it's still on the "Preparing Map Data" stage. I've used it a few times and already been annoyed by its slowness, but today it is slower than ever. On Macintosh, as far as I know, the only way to load maps onto the GPS unit is with the Garmin Mapinstall program.
