On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 2:45 AM, Peter Herison <pheri...@web.de> wrote:
> Karl Newman wrote: > > Peter Herison wrote: > >> Iván Sánchez Ortega wrote: > >> 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). > > This is for firmware 2.80. With 3.00 you can use SD-Cards up to 4GB. > > But it's irrelevant because you can still only use a compiled map > > file up to 2 GB (and 2025 map segments which is usually the more > > relevant number). > > > Changes made from version 2.80 to 3.00: > > * Add support for maps greater than 2 GB. > > http://www8.garmin.com/support/download_details.jsp?id=3707 > Wow, cool. I hadn't been keeping up (since I smashed my Vista HCx in a bike accident last month... <cry>) I had thought that was some sort of hardware limitation, not something that could be fixed in software. Or at the least, not something that they would fix in software for older units. I wonder if it still has the 2025 segment limitation, though. Karl
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