[mkgmap-dev] POI search - Garmin model related.

Mon Mar 24 09:23:32 GMT 2014

On Mon, Mar 24, Brett Russell wrote:

> Hi
> 
> With the reset does it remove all maps?   

No, that's why I wrote "after updating the maps".
The reset cleans up the internal, not accessible cache of the 62s.
I know that the 62s is telling you that all user data will be removed,
but that's wrong.

  Thorsten

> I have the unit also loaded with Garmin's maps and Shonkymaps, a project that used the 1:250,000 maps as a base.  Would like to keep them without having to re-install them as I update mkgmaps frequently. 
> 
> Also might try the reset with the Rino 650. 
> 
> Brett Russell
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> 
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> 
> > On 24 Mar 2014, at 5:15 pm, "Thorsten Kukuk" <kukuk at suse.de> wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> >> On Mon, Mar 24, Brett Russell wrote:
> >> 
> >> 62s the search works but slowly. Could be a unit slow processor issue.
> > 
> > To me it looks like the 62s does not use the global index for POIs,
> > but is looking in every single tile for all POIs, even the one which
> > are not in the index. You can see that very nice if you compare the
> > results with the same map on a 60CSx and a 62s.
> > 
> > To make the search on a 62s faster: Do a reset after every map update.
> > This does at least solved the problem for me in the past (but I
> > used a firmware version without activity routing, I haven't
> > looked at it with a current firmware version).
> > 
> >  Thorsten
> > 
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