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[Angelo Campanella]

I just updated my Street Pilot C340 with a 2013 map.

Firstly, it said I could not fit all of North America on my C340. So I chose
the US Lower 48.

Now I find that the local rivers and parkland color shading is not shown any more.

Have I done something wrong?

How do I get memory room to load all of North America and Terrain Details?

[MJ]

On Mon, 11 Feb 2013 20:33:55 -0800, Angelo Campanella wrote in
955f28d8-297b-4c78...@googlegroups.com :

What size microSD card are you using in the C340? A greater-capacity one
will no doubt be helpful.

[Angelo Campanella]

On Monday, February 11, 2013 11:33:55 PM UTC-5, Angelo Campanella wrote:
> I just updated my Street Pilot C340 with a 2013 map.
> Firstly, it said I could not fit all of North America on my C340. So I chose
> the US Lower 48.
> Now I find that the local rivers and parkland color shading is not shown any more.

> How do I get memory room to load all of North America and Terrain Details?

MJ wrote later:

What size microSD card are you using in the C340? A greater-capacity one
will no doubt be helpful.

Ans (Ange):

I have no idea how to change the SD card. There is no slot I can identify. Does the C340 have one that's added or changeable?

Ange

[Mike Lane]

Perhaps a look through the user manual might tell you?
If you haven't got one, go to the page below and follow the link to
"Manuals":

https://buy.garmin.com/shop/shop.do?cID=164&pID=290

--
Mike Lane
UK North Yorkshire
mike_lane at mac dot com

[Klatch]

This picture shows the SD card slot. I'm guessing there is none installed.
https://buy.garmin.com/shop/alt-image.do?pID=290&img=productImageRFLarge

[Angelo Campanella]

On Monday, February 11, 2013 11:33:55 PM UTC-5, Angelo Campanella wrote:

Mea culpa! I was looking a my c340 as mounted on my left dashboard, and did not see that inconspicuous slot.

I bought a 2 gig SD yesterday, inserted it, went to my computer, logged on to Garmin, headed toward downloading the full North American map, and stalled out at not being able to load GarmanExpress.exe; gets half done, then quits saying my computer won't do it. What should I do?

That was last evening a few minutes after the Garmin phone Help shut down for the weekend. I tried to remove one possible block, my firewall, but that was no help. Furthermore, I found that available map download only once, ostensibly expiring a year from now. Later last evening, I could not find that available download any more.

BTW, My laptop hard disk is now over 85% full, and won't defrag any more on that count. I know I have at least one, if not two Garmin maps residing on it, and need to clear them out once I have reloaded my c340.

Help will be appreciated.

Ange.

[Angelo Campanella]

Well, nobody here answered, so I continued to gnaw away at this problem (Fitting all of North America on my old c340. I won't bore you with the false starts (many), just the bottom line details:

1- The lower 2013 lower 49 still fits the C340 on-board 1 gig memory.

2- The rest of the north America (Canada, Alaska,Mexico and some South American little guys are all relegated to the 2 gig SD regardless of how you try to slice them.

3- The GarminAexpress.exe map downloader is only suited to direct-to-GPS downloads (it never did mount on my laptop). It does work to first receive the full North America subscription onto your PC hard drive (or aux drive with beaucoup memory).

4- Thereafter, you can readily use MapInstall.exe to mix and match a download. to GPS or SD card, your choice.

5- On the c340, you can list for view the contained maps, but the display content is obtuse. The first line is the version ("2013.30" in this case). The second line, item [1] lists the content of the built-in m1 gig memory. The third line, item [2] attempts to list the SD card content, and starts with the first item, then into runtogether and off the right side of the screen.... unknown....

6- To determine whether, for instance, I had Mexico, I went to the "State" selection and started "Chiua.., and it auto-filled "Chihuahua", so I know it has Mexico. Then "Ontar..." for Canada worked, too.

Just thought you all would like to know..........

Ange