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[Closed] Garmin experts: map portability between devices?

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Anyone know if you can take the card (containing full UK OS maps) out of a Dakota and simply place it in an 800 (ie. if I were to upgrade) and it "work"?


 
Posted : 06/10/2012 7:48 pm
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Yes.

The maps are locked to the card not the device.


 
Posted : 06/10/2012 8:12 pm
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So I wouldn't need any sort of installation cd you reckon? (Because I haven't got one...)


 
Posted : 06/10/2012 8:18 pm
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No.

Just put the card in the edge and select the map in the settings menu.


 
Posted : 06/10/2012 8:23 pm
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Hmm, I've been reading around and some sites suggest that if the maps were supplied on SD card they're locked to the card but if they were supplied on CD/DVD they're locked to the device.

I wonder if there's a way I can tell by inspecting the files on the SD card? Anyone know?


 
Posted : 07/10/2012 6:25 pm

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