The article has been updated successfully.Important! If connecting the unit to the PC via a USB cable, make sure that it is in "Mass Storage" mode and not using Active Sync. To avoid difficulty, we recommend the use of a card reader attached to the PC.
Note: A very good guide is attached, describing a different way of copying map files to an SC card and c/w licensing - courtesy of the Hema support team. See the bottom of this page.
Remove the SD card from the GPS or have an alternative one ready. Place the SD card in a card reader attached to your PC. If you do not have an appropriate card reader slot in your PC we recommend you buy a USB Card Reader (they’re inexpensive)
Open the appropriate map on your PC in Memory-Map.
Most Topographical maps published by Memory-Map are very large and may be too big for the available space on the SD card. Also, if using the older map format, the GPS can only cope with maps under 400MB, with the newer map format the limit is nearer 2GB - see more about map formats. This means even if you have purchased a large capacity SD card, it may still be necessary to crop the map into bite sized pieces. There are two ways of accomplishing this:
1 - Sending screen-sized area, zoom and scroll the map to select the area you want to send to the SD card, then click Mobile Device > Send Visible Map Portion. Even if the map on screen is zoomed right out, the full map detail is sent, bounded by the window frame.
2 - Sending arbitrary shapes & sizes. This allows more flexible management of the map sizes and areas you can send. (like corridors that follow a long road or track giving you map detail either side of the road you intend to travel but not wasting space with map you’ll never want to use). Create a closed route (where the first and last waypoints meet) around the area you wish to send to the SD card. Then simply right-click this route, select Operations >
3 - With the new map format and with maps under the 400MB limit, all you need do is bring up the map on screen,select Mobile Device > Send Map and save it on the SD card
With all three of these options you will then be presented with the Send Map dialog. Make sure the Storage Card option is selected and browse to the drive letter and folder where you want the maps saved (they can be saved anywhere on the card).
Once the maps (or cropped map pieces) have been copied to the SD card you need to send a licence to the card so the maps can be viewed on the GPS. An unlicensed map is scrambled and illegible.
With the SD card in the Card Reader on the PC, go to Help > Licence Management and select the SD card button. Here you can see all the licence credited to the card. In this example the only one activated is the Vic-T2 Topo Map (the other licences like GPS, do not need to be activated on the SD card)
To Activate, simply select the map title from the list and click on Activate. Of course, it’s best if your PC is connected to the Internet for this but you can do it off-line.
If your maps are in the older format you may need to chop them into bite sized pieces of under 400MB. The new file format, released in early 2009, overcomes the low file size limits for windows mobile devices.
To determine which format you have, look at the accompanying serial number in the DVD box. If it is 16 digits containing letters and numbers, it is the old format. The new serial numbers are 12 digits of just numbers, no letters.
The old format had the maps in just one file with the file extension .qct. The new format uses two files of the same name, one with the extension .qct and the other with the extension .qc3 (see here for info on making file extensions visible)
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