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Supplementary map names

Posted: Sun Jul 25, 2021 10:41 am
by HarveyM
While adding Open Street Maps to my XT’s sd card I ran across this: I added a 3.9 gb topo map directly to the SD card as gmapsupp.img but found it too slow to refresh on the XT. Rather than deleting it, I thought to ‘deactivate’ the map by renaming it OSMTopo_gmapsupp.img and loaded a smaller OSM map as gmapsupp.img. Checking MyMaps on the device showed both OSM maps available. The XT recognized OSMTopo_gmapsupp.img as a valid map name.

Re: Supplementary map names

Posted: Sun Jul 25, 2021 8:18 pm
by sussamb
Modern Garmin devices aren't restricted to specific map names like the older devices

Re: Supplementary map names

Posted: Sun Jul 25, 2021 11:30 pm
by HarveyM
Good to know. Would any name with the .img extension work, or there some known limitations?

Re: Supplementary map names

Posted: Mon Jul 26, 2021 5:47 am
by sussamb
I've seen some say if the name is too long it fails but otherwise you can choose what you wish.