Deleting or disabling unused maps?

Using Garmin Express you can uninstall the unused maps from the main menu / Manage Maps.

If the unused maps are not activated they will (probably) not influence the performance of the unit. Uninstalling them saves quite a lot of storage space.

Thank you, is it confirmed by Garmin that disabling maps has an effect on the performance of the device? I searched but didn’t find anything on that topic…

It certainly will make the map update (of only those you really use) faster the next time

And you might also gain a few seconds when you boot the device (you can see that it displays that it's loading each map. Each takes about a second)

Ok thanks, I’m gonna try to disable 2 of the 3 maps first and see. In the future I’ll see if I go as far as deleting them from the memory of the unit 

I think disabling them will delete them.

If someone already tried it, or a garmin rep sees this, it would be interesting to confirm this information ! I don’t have my edge with me right now I’m travelling overseas…

That is surely not the case! Disabling a map will not delete it from the device. If that should be you should have to re-install the map every time after you changed your active map(s).

I own an Explore 2 and regularly change the active map.

I was a Little surprised by what flocsy said, What you say makes more sens… Did you notice anything different when you disable maps in terms of responsiveness of the unit?

I think we're talking about 2 different "dimensions".

The question here was about unused maps, i.e why should I have the maps of countries, regions, continents that I am not planning to visit ("geography" dimension)

And if I understand what "active map" means, then that is another "dimension": what map (look) I see.

What I understood from your message, and I think bikepc also, was that if I go in the map menu on my device and disable maps that I don’t use, it will delete them from the memory of the unit, which is why We were surprised