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Jeeperman
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« on: January 24, 2007, 08:26:42 AM »

Nathan....Just for clarification....when we go to download maps and we see the numbers in the boxes.... the 2.5 is the width of the download and the 2.0 is the heighth.  Or, am I backwards?  Sometimes it's hard to tell.  Well, it's not hard to tell when I'm backwards.....but it can be confusing with the numbers.  Thanks, Steve
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« Reply #1 on: January 24, 2007, 09:38:06 AM »

Yes, the first number is the width.
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« Reply #2 on: May 16, 2007, 06:52:38 PM »

Just got 2.3.3 installed. i click on a cache on the screen and try to download maps for that area and i get:

To initiate a download from the map screen, set view-> selections to rectangles and choose a region.

ok how do i choose a region?

PS AWESOME JOB NATHAN!!!!
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« Reply #3 on: May 16, 2007, 06:55:52 PM »

never mind stupid me.
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« Reply #4 on: May 22, 2007, 10:16:57 AM »

My map download speed is about one tile every 2 seconds at 1/4 detail level. Is this about normal?
It doesn't matter if I am downloading on a 768kb line or a t1, so I'm guessing the conversion is the bottleneck, not the bandwidth.
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« Reply #5 on: May 22, 2007, 11:17:53 PM »

Certainly could be normal. No real conversion takes place, but it is being written to the storage card in a database file. I would say latency, not bandwidth, is the bottleneck.

Others have also found that the speed of writing on your storage card makes a big difference.

 

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« Reply #6 on: May 23, 2007, 02:24:28 PM »

Write speed to my storage card was the biggie for me.  I reformatted the sd card to increase it's write speed and that really helped.  Of course Jeeperman is the speed King. Grin  See the thread on speed test.

http://www.backcountrynavigator.com/component/option,com_smf/Itemid,74/topic,129.0/
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« Reply #7 on: May 23, 2007, 04:45:39 PM »

Awwwwww........L.P........now you done made me start blushing...... Wink
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