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Deleting or disabling unused maps?

Former Member
Former Member

Hello !

I have an edge explore 2 and pretty happy with it. Yesterday I connected it to Garmin express to update the maps and it took some Time as there are three maps to update (Europe east, central and west).

So I was wondering, as I never ride outside my country, if there was any benefits to deleting or disabling central and east Europe maps and only keep west? Does it make the unit faster or more responsive with less data to handle?

Thanks Slight smile

  • 0 in reply to Former Member

    Device? We were talking about removing maps via Garmin Express IMHO.

    Also you last sentence is a bit confusing, because it's not very clear what "memory" means. It probably removes the map from the RAM, and after restart it won't load it to the RAM (thus saves a some memory + time), but that (disabling a map in the device) won't remove the files from the "disk" of the device (sometimes also called "memory").

    However when you uncheck a map in Garmin Express and then save/sync it, then it does remove the map files from the disk of the device.

  • Former Member
    0 Former Member in reply to flocsy🤠

    It’s a misunderstanding then Slight smile

    In the last messages I was talking about unchecking them directly on the unit so that they would not be activated, which is indeed different from unchecking them on Garmin express which deletes them once you hit apply!

  • Former Member
    0 Former Member in reply to Former Member

    Ok so today I deleted all the maps in Garmin express and réinstalled only western Europe, not the central and eastern ones, no issues, freed lots of memory Space , and it will be a lot faster for future updates to dowload just one map!

  • 0 in reply to bikepc01

    Where is this option, I can't see this in garmin express

  • Former Member
    0 Former Member in reply to 6879011


    then just uncheck the maps you want to delete and hit apply it will erase them from the memory of your edge.