Iván Sánchez Ortega wrote: > El Sábado, 30 de Mayo de 2009, Paul Houle escribió: >> I just got a Garmin Etrex Vista HCx that I'd like to use for viewing >> Openstreetmaps and for creating tracks I can upload. I'm about to buy >> an SD card for this: how big of a card do I need to hold Openstreetmaps? > > AFAIK, the biggest microSD card that you can put into an eTrex is a 2 GB card > (the bigger microSD-HC cards won't work). You can have them for less than > five bucks nowadays, so go buy one. > > I held onto a 1 GB card since I bought an eTrex - OSM maps for Spain spend > less than 50 MB of space; and the rest of the card can hold *months* worth of > GPX tracks.
Spain apparently is not mapped very densly. I recently downloaded not even all of Germany and got a 370MB file. But I agree: SD cards cost next to nothing, I would buy the biggest that the device can use. Regards, Maarten _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk