Garmin 2610 CF card size
 

I have a Garmin 2610 and was wondering if there is any limits to the size of Compact flash card that can be used. No indication in the Garmin manual so I am guessing there is no limit.

I currently run a 512 MB CF card.

I have brought the Mapsource City Navigator for North America. The total size of all the maps on this CD is around 1800 MB.

I would like to load Canada, and western USA inc. Alaska. If i also load central and south america I will need around a 2GB storage card.
Mapsource Worldmap and Smellybikers maps for these arears amounts to 220MB

One card or split it up on two cards

Any thoughts or recommendations?

Steve

I've just put a 2GB card in my 2610 and loaded the whole of Europe 1750KB on there. I believe that's the maximum card size it will support. It took over three hours to load onto mapsource and then download to my GPS so allow plenty of time when you start the download.

CF card size
 

I´m currently using a 4Gb ¨ëbay special¨ in mine, without any problems.

Thanks for that beemerbird. Nice to know someone has actually got a 4GB working in theirs. You should be able to fit the whole wide world on that!

I bought a 4MB card for mine since the whole of Europe doesn't fit entirely on a 2GB card. It loaded and worked OK. However, and there's always a however, it didn't seem to be able to search for addresses. I stuck the 2gb card back in and all was well again. I don't know if it's because it's a 4gb card or because I didn't get it loaded correctly but my 4gb now sits in thre 2610 box doing nothing.
I've now got a Zumo so didn't bother re-trying the 4gb card. Now that I've typed this post though, my curiosity is up and I think I'll try the 4gb card again :)

Maybe you have a different version CD to me I've got everything on the map in mapsource copied to the card, Norway to Greece. Without looking I'm sure it was 1750MB. Maybe I left Ireland off?

which verison? City navigator V9 took more than 1750mb on mine :) Version 9 took 2198.5gb with 592 map segments.
Jim

Mine is V7. It'll have to do for now. Most of the roads I travel on are small back roads which tend not to change much over time. It's worked well in the UK and Calais-Denmark-Sweden-Norway so far. I would imagine that most city centres haven't changed much either.

Personally I'd use two or three smaller (1Gb, or possibly 2Gb) cards and split the maps between them - of course you can always select and deselect the maps on the GPS itself which is handy, as if you have too many of them active at once the search facility takes a long time to find addresses, as it will search all the maps/states you've got active...

1Gb cards are cheap as chips these days...

xxx

Thanks for all the replies,

Decided to try a 2 GB card and finally got that loaded with the Wonderlust West, USA, Canada and areas of World Map. I have tried some routing and everything appears fine. I will disable maps that are not in use.

I had some problems getting the USA unlock code for the 2610 from Gamin but all sorted now. I forgot the Mapsource and GPS unlock codes are different.

It feels much heavier with all the USA maps loaded ;)

Steve

garmin 2610 Cf card size
 

Hi all
I have just purchased a 4gb cf card for my 2610 to load all of europe onto with the new V10 release, about 2370mb or 2.37gb.
This huge mapset will not load onto the 4gb card no matter how many times i tried it.:(

After looking on Garmin.co.uk site in the f.a.q section they recommend that the maximum cf card size for a 2610 is 2gb only!!!:confused1:

So does anyone want a 4gb cf card... doh!:stupid: