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Monolingual & Topo

Postby siberian » Mon Jan 30, 2012 12:08 am

I know you shouldn't ask two questions at once as you'll probably get the answer to the one less important but here goes.

1) In a Nuvi 255w, can I sanitize the Voice directory and get rid of Ancient Aramaic, Middle Kingdom hieroglyphic (modern) etc. to save space and just keep the language I am interested in? I assume that will speed it up and also free up oodles of space.

2) According to what I've read, the Nuvi255w supports up to 5 file names + 1 in the SD card. So if for example I want to add a topo map, can I just name it one of the unused filenames? If so how will it recognize it's a topo map, or it just sees another map and checks the header to see what it is?

TIA

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Postby p!xeldealer » Mon Jan 30, 2012 8:34 am

  1. Of course you can remove unused language files, to save space but I think it wouldn't speed up your nuvi - only start could be faster.

  2. On your generation of nuvi only the gmap*.img names possible, individual map names only at newer devices accepted (e.g. 12xx, 13xx...). To make a distinction different maps on older devices in the file list I made small txt files with the real name e.g. gmapprom-CNEU2012-3.txt, gmapsupp-Topo_D2010.txt...
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Postby siberian » Mon Jan 30, 2012 7:26 pm

Yes I meant faster start-up not actually speed up the unit.

As to the file names, here is where I got that from:

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So you're saying that I can only use the alternate map set (if not used) gmapprom1.img as the name for my topo map?

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Postby p!xeldealer » Mon Jan 30, 2012 8:02 pm

If you have only 2 maps, you'd best use gmapprom.img and gmapsupp.img - the other names are not supported by all devices.
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Postby siberian » Mon Jan 30, 2012 8:49 pm

But gmapsupp can be in both the SD card as well as internal correct?

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Postby p!xeldealer » Mon Jan 30, 2012 9:11 pm

correct

so you can always have 3 maps (except basemap) - 2 internal, 1 external
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