I'm having bit of a conundrum here and really am wondering where to take this...
I have Carminat TomTom, which comes with a 2Gb SD card that has UK and ROI maps pre-installed on it. We're off to France in a few weeks time, so it would be handy to have French mapping on there too.
So off to the 'Add Maps' section in TomTom Home, and I have two choices: France for 50 quid or Western Europe for 70. You never know, I might want to visit other parts of Europe in the future, so the extra £20 is seeming like good value so far.
Now here's the trouble - it's a 1.8Gb map on a memory card that only has around 1.8Gb of storage on it, even when freshly formatted. TomTom Home wants me to get rid of 450Mb of stuff, when the UK map is under 200Mb and I only have around 100Mb of photos on there.
A bigger card sounds promising, though TomTom's website claims that Carminat TomTom will only support SD (rather than SDHC) and also warns that there may be performance and reliability issues if you use anything other than the official card in the Renault system. They do a suitable 4Gb SD card (I always thought that 4Gb and up was SDHC anyway) but they want over £25 for it when I can get a 4Gb card elsewhere for under a tenner.
I really don't know which way to go with this right now. I'd buy a 4Gb card and try it with the current maps, but they won't run off any other card (I've already tried making a backup.) I don't want to spend 70 quid on maps and £10 on a card, only to discover that I need to spend another £25 to get the maps onto a card that works. At this point, I'm seriously considering saying 'nuts' to the built-in sat-nav and suckering my old GO-700 to the windscreen while we're away. It's between that and getting the France map and hoping that I never subsequently want to go anywhere else in Europe with the car.
This is probably more of a rant than anything, though if anyone has any suggestions, I'm all ears.
I have Carminat TomTom, which comes with a 2Gb SD card that has UK and ROI maps pre-installed on it. We're off to France in a few weeks time, so it would be handy to have French mapping on there too.
So off to the 'Add Maps' section in TomTom Home, and I have two choices: France for 50 quid or Western Europe for 70. You never know, I might want to visit other parts of Europe in the future, so the extra £20 is seeming like good value so far.
Now here's the trouble - it's a 1.8Gb map on a memory card that only has around 1.8Gb of storage on it, even when freshly formatted. TomTom Home wants me to get rid of 450Mb of stuff, when the UK map is under 200Mb and I only have around 100Mb of photos on there.
A bigger card sounds promising, though TomTom's website claims that Carminat TomTom will only support SD (rather than SDHC) and also warns that there may be performance and reliability issues if you use anything other than the official card in the Renault system. They do a suitable 4Gb SD card (I always thought that 4Gb and up was SDHC anyway) but they want over £25 for it when I can get a 4Gb card elsewhere for under a tenner.
I really don't know which way to go with this right now. I'd buy a 4Gb card and try it with the current maps, but they won't run off any other card (I've already tried making a backup.) I don't want to spend 70 quid on maps and £10 on a card, only to discover that I need to spend another £25 to get the maps onto a card that works. At this point, I'm seriously considering saying 'nuts' to the built-in sat-nav and suckering my old GO-700 to the windscreen while we're away. It's between that and getting the France map and hoping that I never subsequently want to go anywhere else in Europe with the car.
This is probably more of a rant than anything, though if anyone has any suggestions, I'm all ears.