Hi there, I am calling in for help from Germany - hope my English is OK enough for this, oh and I am on an Intel iMac running 10. So far so good. Here's what I did already after speaking to some guy from the German side of Garmin : - copied the map City Navigator Europe NT 2011. How can I get a map onto an SD-card and actiate it correctly? Can anyone help, please? After hours and hours of research I finally found a guy in the German Garmin forum who explained to me how to get your maps on a SD-card, when you're on Mac. You need to copy the. Now mapupdate will recognise your SD-Card as a Garmin device and you can put an update onto the SD-Card - you just have to enter your Garmin device's data when asked to do so. After all the maps are on the card in my case roughly 3. As easy as that, if you know how! If I had known, that I have to do over six hours of Internet-Research to get a map on a SD-Card because the internal memory of my Garmin is too small, I'd have gonne to TomTom - no kidding. For a Mac-User, having to do things similar to the times you had to deal with Win95 is discraceful. Garmin has to fix this! I agree that the method you used was extremely difficult. That's why we have a much easier approach. During the map update, you are given the option to install maps onto your computer. If you do that, you can run MapInstall after the update to pick any extra maps to store onto an SD card. We never encourage users to copy system or map files onto their GPS because it's 1 complicated 2 potentially dangerous. We've tried to provide applications that make the need to do that unnecessary. There are other posts in this forum that describe this method for adding files to SD card that don't fit onto the device. Reply from Garmin International I experienced the same problem, followed your steps and everything went smoothly. Between having the frustration and finding your post I emailed Garmin. Here is the response as well as the attachment they reference in their response. I tried this method and it works flawlessly. In order to install mapping to the SD card you will need to start by installing the maps to your computer. If this program is present, skip to the last paragraph. If not, please log in at. Once logged in, select the myMaps tab along the blue bar at the top. There should now be a Map Downloads button at the top, please select that link. There may be a few downloads listed in this section at the moment. Click download and follow the instructions to finish this initial download. Once the initial download is complete, the Map Update installer should start. This should ask you for your product key which should be in the window already and then it will communicate with the server. The next step should take you to the screen which states your unit does not have enough memory. Select a region that can be installed, any region, and then make sure to select the option below to install to the Computer as well as the unit. Once this is complete, you will have a few new programs installed to your computer. One will be called MapInstall. You will need to open the MapInstall program and run this program. I have attached a document which will walk you through the MapInstall process. I hope this post is helpful to you and anyone else trying to accomplish what should be an easy task. I had only a 2GB memory card and decided that it would be less hassle if I got a bigger CD card. I purchased a 16GB card however MapInstall will only recognize 4GB? Is there something that I need to do for it to recognize the full 16GB? I agree that the method you used was extremely difficult. That's why we have a much easier approach. During the map update, you are given the option to install maps onto your computer. If you do that, you can run MapInstall after the update to pick any extra maps to store onto an SD card. We never encourage users to copy system or map files onto their GPS because it's 1 complicated 2 potentially dangerous. We've tried to provide applications that make the need to do that unnecessary. There are other posts in this forum that describe this method for adding files to SD card that don't fit onto the device. This is supposed to be an explanation? Run things to install on the computer, and files do not exist on the computer. Where are they on a Mac? This whole sentence is meaningless. You just ran the Mapinstall to put maps on the computer, and when you it again, it will do the same thing again, i. I had only a 2GB memory card and decided that it would be less hassle if I got a bigger CD card. I purchased a 16GB card however MapInstall will only recognize 4GB? Is there something that I need to do for it to recognize the full 16GB? That's as big a single file as the Garmin GPS units can read. But, you can send as many individual files they need to be named something other than gmapsupp. Whether your GPS supports multiple map sets with names other than gmapsupp. On my Montana 16GB microSD Card I have: China. They take up 8. Each file was sent with MapInstall and then renamed as above. Cheers, I agree that the method you used was extremely difficult. That's why we have a much easier approach. During the map update, you are given the option to install maps onto your computer. If you do that, you can run MapInstall after the update to pick any extra maps to store onto an SD card. We never encourage users to copy system or map files onto their GPS because it's 1 complicated 2 potentially dangerous. We've tried to provide applications that make the need to do that unnecessary. There are other posts in this forum that describe this method for adding files to SD card that don't fit onto the device. The tools provided MAY do the job, I'm still fighting them! Why not make it simple for us? If you make it hard to do, they will probably look to replace the GPS with a competitors product. In my case I have 2012. If I put the rest of the map set onto SD card the unit switches off as the maps load. Garmin software sucks 28Feldon has it right despite anything a Garmin employee may say. Having the same problems. Had them with a Mac on day 1. I couldn't get my 1350 do work at all till the second or third update of their current software, had to borrow a friends laptop to load it. It's unfortunate Garmin tries so hard to keep their products from being pirated that they can't make any decent software. Never used mine with a PC, but for Mac users, find something else, it isn't worth the hassle. I will for my next purchase. The tools provided MAY do the job, I'm still fighting them! Why not make it simple for us? If you make it hard to do, they will probably look to replace the GPS with a competitors product. In my case I have 2012. If I put the rest of the map set onto SD card the unit switches off as the maps load. After hours and hours of research I finally found a guy in the German Garmin forum who explained to me how to get your maps on a SD-card, when you're on Mac. You need to copy the. Now mapupdate will recognise your SD-Card as a Garmin device and you can put an update onto the SD-Card - you just have to enter your Garmin device's data when asked to do so. After all the maps are on the card in my case roughly 3. As easy as that, if you know how! If I had known, that I have to do over six hours of Internet-Research to get a map on a SD-Card because the internal memory of my Garmin is too small, I'd have gonne to TomTom - no kidding. For a Mac-User, having to do things similar to the times you had to deal with Win95 is discraceful. Garmin has to fix this! I mean each power connection re'load maps- what a nonsense , then updating is made in to unbearable experience, despite me paying for all of it in good faith. Thanks to KORGO , not Garmin, I'll try all over again as autoMapLoading nonsense app don't work either- simply stuck at stage 1- downloading for over an hour now. EDITED: 2hrs later and over 7GB of wireless data usage I was kinda hopeful to find more useful posts and get over the garmin's shortfall...
