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Unnecessary Garmin Edge Map files


Disco man

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Morning

 

On a Garmin Edge there is map files that takes up quite a bit of space, and I’m sure that they are most probably for other countries.

 

Looking at South Africa and Namibia witch of these files can I remove from my device to make more space?

By the way it’s a Garmin Edge 820

 

TopoActive Africa v3.img

Gmapprom.img

D601700A.img

Gmapgc.img

Gmapdem.img

Gmapbmap.img

Gmaptz.img

 

Regards

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Morning

 

On a Garmin Edge there is map files that takes up quite a bit of space, and I’m sure that they are most probably for other countries.

 

Looking at South Africa and Namibia witch of these files can I remove from my device to make more space?

By the way it’s a Garmin Edge 820

 

TopoActive Africa v3.img

Gmapprom.img

D601700A.img

Gmapgc.img

Gmapdem.img

Gmapbmap.img

Gmaptz.img

 

Regards

My take on this is as follows:

 

TopoActive Africa v3.img -  It's a topographic data map, could be usefull if you do MTB'ing.

Gmapprom.img - That is your main road map installed on your GPS, should be usefull if you do road cycling. Used to calculate routes on roads.

D601700A.img - Absolutely no idea what this one is used for.

Gmapgc.img - Map for Geocode data, used to look up POIs.

Gmapdem.img - Elevation data map, could be usefull for both road and MTB.

Gmapbmap.img - Default base map, no real usefull data on it normally.

Gmaptz.img - Timezone map, only usefull if you travel between countries with different time zones.

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Thanks all

 

Garmin support feedback is that I will be doing it at my own risk, but that I could remove the following files:

 

gmapgc.img - 2.1Gb

 

 

gmapprom.img - 3.7Gb

 

I've removed them and the unit still seems to be 100%. At least I've opened up some capacity on the unit.

 

 

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