I3 - American Maps?

gamblingman · Occasional Visitor Joined: Aug 02, 2006 Posts: 2

I'm heading off to California soon and was wondering if anyone knows if I can get US Maps to load onto my Garmin I3.

It would be great if I could take it with me. The little thing hardly ever lets me down.

I couldn't find any links to US Maps on the Garmin site but maybe someone here knows where I can purchase them.

Cheers,
Gamblingman

ashyx · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jul 29, 2006 Posts: 5

http://www.garmin.com/cartography/mapSource/citynavnt.jsp

mk_graham · Posted: Thu Aug 03, 2006 9:46 am Post subject:

You'll need a big fat transflash to load the whole US, so be selective, based on where you're headed.
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V7 PMD 1400 with Western Europe Maps gone (sold in local paper)
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iPhone with Sygic Mobile Maps (Europe) - having problems

Beerbellybill999 · Posted: Thu Aug 03, 2006 10:00 am Post subject:

I depends on how much you want to pay!!

It can be done on the cheap by buying Metroguide North America from ebay. These maps are not locked but you can't load them with the normal mapsource loader but with other utilities(freeware)

see thread

http://www.pocketgpsworld.com/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=43857
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i3 2.70(went to 2.82,3.0,3.1 but downgraded) with V8 map on microSD card
Metroguide Europe V7 & V8 (routable and indexed)
Metroguide N America V6 (routable and indexed)

gamblingman · Occasional Visitor Joined: Aug 02, 2006 Posts: 2

Thanks for your help guys. I will check out the links.

Cheers.

Beerbellybill999 · Posted: Fri Aug 04, 2006 9:01 am Post subject:

By the way don't buy and card bigger the 512mb,any bigger maps and the i3 sloooows right down!
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i3 2.70(went to 2.82,3.0,3.1 but downgraded) with V8 map on microSD card
Metroguide Europe V7 & V8 (routable and indexed)
Metroguide N America V6 (routable and indexed)

georgemac · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jan 27, 2006 Posts: 42

I have purchased City Navigator North America v8 DVD (from Canada £80). Installed and unlocked the maps on my laptop. I have selected the Florida maps using map tool, and sent them to my Garmin i3, in which I have a spare 256 Mbyte Transflash card.

It seemed to write the maps OK, but when I turn the unit back on and select view map, it is still showing me the UK maps?

The image file on the card is about 125 Mbytes with what I loaded, any idea what I am doing wrong?

georgemac · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jan 27, 2006 Posts: 42

Looks like I did nothing wrong - it is the i3 not finding the satellites and dislaying the last point it was at when it had a position fix.

I entered an address and went to view the map and the US maps are loaded.

Jamas · Posted: Thu Aug 17, 2006 9:11 pm Post subject:

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