Can I load Cycle maps onto the computer hard drive?

Depends, you'll need to give us more information about which map you're talking about though?

Its the Garmin European Cycle map, comes on a micro card. thanks.

You could try creating a virtual drive http://www.javawa.nl/virtualdevice.html and copying the files to that.

The files on the virtual drive have to be in the same folders as on the SD card.

The virtual drive has to be "removable" for Basecamp to see it.

"Cycle maps" suggests you are talking about the maps that come with the Edge Touring or 1000.

If so, any Openstreetmap maps created for the Garmin in Basecamp will work.

garmin.openstreetmap.nl

I am glad this has come up again (I found a similar topic on another earlier page)

I have tried to do this, but am afraid it is proving complete gobbledegook to me - I have got as far as downloading JaVaWa, but then have lost it somewhere in the description of what it can do. I have no idea how to copy from the SD card to to the virtual drive, and am not even sure I have created a virtual drive.

Has anyone got an idiot's guide to doing this. I want to load 1:50k OS GB maps onto the PC, but will probably later want to add some maps of different areas of Europe, so would appreciate the notes allowing for different maps from different areas, e.g. Norway and a number of different countries in the Alps - do they need different virtual drives?

Thanks

I have got as far as downloading JaVaWa, but then have lost it somewhere in the description of what it can do. I have no idea how to copy from the SD card to to the virtual drive, and am not even sure I have created a virtual drive.

If you don't see the new drive, then you haven't created it (or completed creating it).

Basically, the virtual disk programs create a big file on your hard disk and then let you "mount" the file as a virtual disk (using the virtual disk program).

In Windows, this gets assigned to a drive letter. Once you get the drive letter, you use it just like any other drive.

Note that the virtual drive might need to be remounted after rebooting your computer.

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The JaVaWa "device manager" program isn't virtual drive software.

It used on a drive (real or virtual) on the files on the drive. Mostly what it does is let you modify the properties inside the map files.

http://www.javawa.nl/jdm_en.html

You need to download one of the programs listed on this page:

Use a virtual device with Basecamp

http://www.javawa.nl/virtualdevice.html

OK, so I appear to have created a virtual drive, and have got JaVaWa loaded. But as I mentioned before, the instructions in JaVaWa don't actually make much sense to me. I can't afford to lose or destroy the OS GB maps on the memory card in the GPS unit, but now want to copy them across to the virtual drive. There doesn't a appear to be a copy function as such, though I am sure one of the options does just that.

Would someone please explain in simple language what I have to do now so I can use BC to plan routes without having the GPS attached to the PC. Thanks.

You don't need to use anything other than Explorer to copy the files from your SD card to the virtual drive just like copying any files in Windows.

Note the map files need to be in a folder named Garmin on the virtual drive.

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Well, I am obviously doing something wrong as I copied the three files on the SD card to the virtual drive, opened basecamp - and nothing.

Did you note the comment in the JaVaWa instructions that the virtual drive must be set as a removable USB drive?