Europe and the world for the Nuvi 250

 

Does anyone have suggestions for useful Nuvi 250W add-on items for the Europe mapset? Particularly Ireland, UK, France and Italy.

And is there any add-on that might make the world map (outside the detailed road coverage area paid for) a little more detailed. For those who have not tried it in planes - once you are allowed to use electronic stuff after takeoff - keep your Nuvi near the window for a while and you will get a satellite set and a position/speed/height solution - great to compare with the on-board display if it is up or just to get home and show how fast you really went!

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pchinote wrote:

is there any add-on that might make the world map (outside the detailed road coverage area paid for) a little more detailed.

There are a variety of different World Basemaps kicking around. Garmin don't provide direct links to them though; they're to be found bundled into other stuff.

I *think* you can extract the 'biggest/best' gmapbmap.img from the Garmin mobile-xt update:

http://www8.garmin.com/support/download_details.jsp?id=3413

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gmapbmap.img

Hornbyp wrote:
pchinote wrote:

I *think* you can extract the 'biggest/best' gmapbmap.img from the Garmin mobile-xt update:

http://www8.garmin.com/support/download_details.jsp?id=3413

Ok - great start - but has anyone got a suggestion about how to extract the image map. I have not tried with my 250W connected but would prefer to avoid that unless necessary (and if I do you may be absolutely certain I have a backup).
I know where to find the file on the Garmin and will have no problems replacing it if I can force the extract.

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pchinote wrote:

Ok - great start - but has anyone got a suggestion about how to extract the image map.

You can probably use Winzip, with the downloaded .EXE as input. From memory, I think you have to rename it as .ZIP, otherwise it recognises the self-extractor and runs it instead.

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World map extracts fine - anyone with Europe add-ons?

Hornbyp wrote:
pchinote wrote:

From memory, I think you have to rename it as .ZIP, otherwise it recognises the self-extractor and runs it instead.

Good guess! XP unzips it - file is there - rename original to a .old file so it is there as backup - copy in new one and it works. Thanks.

Now I am wondering about the other bit - add-ons to the Europe map???