Adding Maps to the Zumo 660

It was easier to add maps to the Zumo 660 than I expected.

With the impending trip, I bought the Garmin City Navigator Europe 2012 DVD. I was concerned that with the number of countries I was going to visit, that I'd be running out of internal storage on the Zumo.

The internal flash storage on the Zumo 660 is 3.8GB, but 1.6GB is chewed up by the North American maps and 1.0GB is consumed by everything else (like voice files, etc). I tried to clear space for the new maps, but the best I could do was freeing about 1GB.

Using MapSource, you use the map tool to select what areas you want to add. But when you hit "upload to device", it conveniently allows you to pick your GPS, or your GPS's uSD slot, or even local SD cards. So easy.

For note, the entire Europe 2012 map set is about 2.7GB. I tried trimming it back to just what I may roll the motorcycle through, and well, that was about 2.4GB. My 32GB uSD card had 18GB free, so I didn't care to skimp. Who knows, maybe I'll take a ferry to Iceland! (okay, maybe not.)

I haven't seen any performance issues since adding the European mapset.

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