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First this is mentioned - nearly 900 downloads 8 months. 

During the install, change the location to Georgia topo.  Oz was making the self-installers for me at 2-3 per day; possibly one of the info items did not get changed for this mapset as they were both made on the same day.

Ooppss, LOL, Thanks, I'll do that.

I didn't know this, my wife has a brand new computer maybe I'll download the S.E. U.S. topo's to her computer and install Map source and City Navigator on hers and do this. Thank you.  

If you have CN on DVD, you can combine it and other mapset data and send it to the GPSr as one gmapsupp.img file.  See:http://www.gpsfiledepot.com/tutorials/how-to-load-maps-on-my-garmin-gps-unit/

I did not upload a SC topo because of the high percentage of NED/DEM gridded elevation data which was produced by USGS using older production methods.  The resulting contours can be very different (and unrealistic) from those on the printed topo quads.  USGS's Oct release of NED data replaces much of this older data, however it will take some time to download, process, etc.  USA topo SE includes SC. 

I've got a 2GB card I wanted to fill up.

Everytime you want to include additional data the gmapsupp.img file needs to be recreated and  transfered to the GPSr.  This takes some time and gets old after you do it a few times.

The published 100K maps and resulting digital files are of that age.  There are a few websites which are slowly acquiring trail info from people's track logs.

I must have missed the S.E. U.S. topo I'll download that, Thanks.

I downloaded the Georgia topo map and started to install it, I looked at the file name and noticed that the file name was Wisconsin topo. Is this just a mistake, I don't want a Wisconsin topo. Thanks for your help. 

Well, I found something out the hard way, after a call to Garmin. I completely erased my City Navigator maps when I installed the Florida Topo maps. Ida never thunk it. Now because of computer problems I'm going to have to use 2 SD cards, 1 for my City Navagator maps and 1 for my topo maps. I decided if I have to do things that way then I might as well get more topo maps so I downloaded all of the topo maps for the S.E. U,S. except S.C., for some reason S.C. is in the list but there's no map. Bummer!! I've got a 2GB card I wanted to fill up. I saw the trail overlay but the info said it was 25 years old, don't want that I guess.   

I get an error message every time I try to install IbycusUSA into Map Source. And it takes hours to download, anyway here's the error message I get;

"NSIS Error"
"Installer integrity check has failed. Common causes include incomplete download and damaged media. Contact the installer's author to obtain a new copy."
"More information at
http://nsis.net/nsis_error"

I tried the web site and the link doesn't work. I've also tried to delete and re-download the software, I don't know if I'm getting a complete download because I can't watch my computer for several hours. I start the download and check on it and I think I'm getting a complete download. I'm using Vista Home Premium and Chrome browser, if that matters at all. Thank you for any help. 

No, there not in Mapsource, Try to make a long story short. My computer was broke so I installed the maps in an older computer W/Mapsource, when I got my computer fixed Dell didn't replace my CD player like I ask them to because the warrenty was about to expire, I assume that was there logic, anyway, so now I can't install the maps on my computer (I have to buy another CD player)so it won't help to get another code from Garmin until I can afford another CD player. I'm downloading Ibycus as I type this. The maps are on my GPS, but since I travel some I installed all of the US in it so I could do some geocaching where ever I went. I might be able to kick the other computer to get it to work and then delete some of the street maps that I know now I'm not going to need to make some memory room on the card. And use Ibycus if I need more street maps. Thanks.   

Talk about an easy fix!!! I didn't see it before, all I had to do was to go to a drop down menu in the very far left hand corner of the main Mapsource page and then click on Fltopo in the list and wellaa I've got all of the state topo map. Now to install the sections I want in my GPS. I think anyway that I know how to do that. I also have and want to keep my street maps because I need them also, will the Topo maps mess up the street maps. I've got the CD but my CD player doesn't work so I can't re-download the street maps. I think Ive got a 2 GB card installed in the GPS. Come to think of it I can't even delete any of the street maps that I don't need because the CD was installed on a computer that doesn't work anymore, or at least I'll have to fight with it to get it to work. Thanks again for everybody's help. I'll wait to install the topo's until I hear back from somebody about the street maps.     

I'll try both suggestions, Thank you.

O.k. let me see if I can explain so this makes sense. I opened Mapsource and then clicked on open, a hard drive window opened, I clicked on Florida Topo folder and Mapsource didn't open anything. I did the same thing and then on the Hard drive pop up I went to the drop down box and clicked on "All Files". then clicked on "Open". Oh, I forgot to mention that I went to my hard drive download folder and tried the tutorial again first by uninstal and then install. This is the error that Mapsource gave me. And other than the string of numbers it was the same with all of the .img files I tried, anyway here is the error message in quotes,,,,"GPS\florida\topo\54881980.img is not a valid mapsource file and could not be opened". I don't want to go through all of the aggravation the .img tutorail instructed me to do. 
So if this won't work I'll ask Santa Clause for topo maps from Garmin. I'm using Vista Home Premium for my O.S. if that matters.   

I'm having the same problem. I've posted in a different section of this forum.

I did that and Map source doesn't see the maps. I can open the folder on my computer and see all of the files in the folder but Map source isn't finding them. I open mapsource and go to new or open and then a new window for my hard drive opens and I click on the folder with the topo maps in it and nothing happens in mapsource. Thanks for any help.  I've also looked at the tutorial,, I'll look at it again. Maybe I missed something. 

I know when I downloaded Fl. topo it took hours, it also took Ibcus hours to download.

I've searched this forum and wasn't able to find anything pertaining to my problem. I have Mapsource installed on my computer, I downloaded the Topo maps for Florida and there's nothing in that folder for Mapsource to download, the folder is empty. I'm using a Garmin GPSmap 60CSx. I'm also downloading IbycusUSA.exe right now. I hope that goes better. Thank you for any help you can give me about the Topo maps.