User manual MOBILE CROSSING WAYPOINT MAP LOADER

[. . . ] WayPoint Map Loader Users Manual You can find additional product and support information for your WayPoint at the following website: http://www. mobilecrossing. com or contact: Mobile Crossing 1230 Oakmead Parkway, Suite 304 Sunnyvale, CA 94085 (408) 850-8156 Fax (408) 738-8806 E-mail: support@mobilecrossing. com © 2005 Mobile Crossing Inc. - All rights reserved June 2005 ii Table of Contents Introduction . 28 iii Introduction A WayPoint unit comes with 128 Megabytes of Flash Disk space for maps. While this will not hold the entire United States, it will hold one region plus the long haul maps. [. . . ] Regions Mideast Ohio Pennsylvania Midwest Kansas Missouri Oklahoma Arkansas New England Maine New Hampshire Vermont Massachusetts Rhode Island Connecticut New YorkEastern North Central North Dakota South Dakota Nebraska Minnesota Iowa Pacific California Hawaii Pacific Northwest Washington Oregon Idaho Montana Wyoming Utah-North South Atlantic North Carolina South Carolina Georgia Southeast GeorgiaSouthern Florida Puerto Rico Southwest Utah Colorado New Mexico Arizona Nevada Wyoming-S Tristate New York Connecticut New Jersey 16 Figure 12. Regions Upper Great Lakes Minnesota Michigan Wisconsin Canada (see Figure 13) Special Regions There is a Long Haul region that contains major road maps for the entire United States except Alaska. National maps include detailed maps of all the areas covered by the Long Haul region. Great Lakes region is a duplicate in that all of the states in that region are in other regions. All other regions have at least one state that is unique to that region. It includes the following provinces and territories: New Brunswick, Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Prince Edward Island, Quebec, Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, Northwest Territories, and Saskatchewan. Canada 17 Map Loading You can install any map set that you have previously purchased. The maps can be obtained from a CF card, an SD card or directly from the Internet. Mobile Crossing has a 1 Gigabyte CF card available with all of the US and Canada maps preloaded. You can also build your own card if you prefer. Using the Internet If you have an Internet connection on your WayPoint unit you can use this connection to download maps. Generally a broadband connection is needed to minimize the download time. You will be downloading more than 70 Megabytes of data in multiple files. Should you lose your connection during the download this will be detected and you can recover and continue with the download. Using a card If you have a CF or SD card available containing the source map files you can use this card to install the maps you have purchased. Mobile Crossing offers a 1 Gigabyte CF card containing all of the maps. If you build your own card and accidently miss some of the files the program will detect this and offer to download them from the Internet. It is possible to mix source map files and loaded map files on the same SD card. Making your own Map Loader card This section is only for advanced users who know how to work directly with the file system on a pc. To minimize the time to build a Map Loader card you may wish to utilize a card reader. You may also need an unzipper depending on how your get your source maps. The first step is to obtain a card and place a directory called WpMaps on the root of the card. These can be regions downloaded from the web site or obtained 18 from a CD-ROM. If they are zipped you will need to unzip them and copy the contents into the directory created in step 1. [. . . ] On the PC be sure that the WayPoint shows connected on the ActiveSync display. In ActiveSync under Tools > Options > Rules ensure the Pass through setting is also set to 'Work'. The setting in active sync and the PDA must agree. Map Activation Problems If the unit does not permit you to install a map set that you own you have a map activation problem. To fix this problem you need to tap Map Tools and then Repair Activation key. [. . . ]