On Mon, Oct 12, 2020 at 3:17 PM Rich Shepard <rshep...@appl-ecosys.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 12 Oct 2020, elcaseti wrote: > > > I'll be interested to hear how well that works without using the Windows > > GUI. > > There are two different actions we're discussing. Firmware upgrades are > done > from the console, or a DOS 'window' in Microsoft-world. It's been a few y > years since I did this but I boot the laptop from the DOS-formated flash > drive which has (I think) DOS-6.x installed. Then I run the firmware .exe > file with the GPS attached to another USB port. I'll check the details > before doing this, of course. > > > Ja, from what I've read, an SD card is usually what you store the OSM map > > on. It's unclear whether or not you can use more than one country map (or > > in the USA, more than one state). If it turns out to be a big hassle to > > switch between the Washington state & Oregon OSM map on Garmin, then I'll > > probably go back to using my very out of date (~2010) Garmin map. > > Map upgrades usually can be done using only the Garmin Camp GUI. And we > need > to pay for it. > > Perhaps multistate OSM maps can be put in separate diretories on the SD > card > and selected when the GPS is turned on. Haven't tried this, though. > As I understand it, the main reason for using OSM maps on a Garmin is to have free up to date maps. I hope you're right about putting maps in different directories & then selecting the map you want at boot time. That would be awesome! > > Regards, > > Rich > _______________________________________________ > PLUG: https://pdxlinux.org > PLUG mailing list > PLUG@pdxlinux.org > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG: https://pdxlinux.org PLUG mailing list PLUG@pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
