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Originally Posted by Counterfeit
Guess its better to bump then create new threads on old subjects  ha. im thinking about getting garmin xt now...how much space will the maps take up? continental usa. |
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Originally Posted by Counterfeit
Thanks..looks like i may wait until i find a good deal on a 16gb microsdhc instead of my puny 2gber!
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XT comes with US basemap included. Contains: Freeway, Highways, big stuff. If you want detailed maps (cities), and yes, you do...
You need to buy the CD... and you know the capacity of a CD. But, you only need to download the areas you want. If you are an inner city guy, total space is the metro area, a few megs... most just download their state to their ppc... live in Cali or R.I? .... if you divide 1 gig by 50 states... & you only download 1 state... well you do the math. You probably don't need a new SD card... There are downloads all over for this for free, but that determines what & who you are and your personal integrity.. I've spent a LOT of money on GPS's & software with Garmin over the years, my last one dropped & bust the screen right after I got it, had the CD and everything... they wouldn't do anything.... a few hundred down the drain... will let you guess what I did..
People need to quit dreaming about bigger SD cards imo.. Yea, they've got 32Gb, 8 now under $20 if you look hard, and 4 gigs for nothing. NoNE of that matters... best bang 4 buck right now=8g C6
MOST IMPORTANT! Get a class 6 SD card. Anything over 2Gb is rated by class, if you can't either see it or the seller doesn't advertise it.. guess what? it's a class 2 (C2). C6=6Mb/s, C4=4Mb/s, C2=2 Mb/s, so yes a C6 is 3 times as fast! All your maps and program is on the SD card for XT.