Gamin 705 Query

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My dad has just sent me this question:

The Garmin still wouldn't plot from York to home (Newcastle) so I set it to Northallerton and then from there it plotted home. I think that the route from York to home is complicated with a load of instructions and as such there is possibly not enough memory for the route to be created/stored. Do you think that if I got a 4gb memory card it would be possible to transfer the mapping and use the 4gb in place of the 2gb I currently have the maps on?

Any 705 users able to answer this quick question?

I have my own ideas but thought it maybe quicker to ask someone in the know

[andyw]

It can only use a 2gb max, but that's not a problem, all the memory card is doing is stroing the image of the map - it's not processing the instructions.

TBH, I only ever plan routes in advance on mine, using either GPSies.com or bikehike.co.uk, so I don't really know anything about the auto-routing settings, but I doubt the meory card size is the problem.

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I'd also add that if the map set was bought with the Garmin (e.g. on memory card not DVD) then Garmin have copy protected it so you cannot transfer the maps to a larger memory card (so says the Garmin website in the very small print, I haven't tested it).

I wouldn't have thought York to Newcastle should be a problem though. Mine was fine on Dragon Ride (150 miles including hotel start etc plotted on bikeroutetoaster) and more recently driving from Clapham to the New Forest and back via Reading. Be warned though, above about 100 mile journeys though they do take f-o-r-e-v-e-r to plot courses.