Default maps for "City" find

[holycatz]

Has anyone yet figured out how to set (or trick) our Que for "Cities" to defaulting into the detailed City Select, vs the more coarsely detailed base maps? Thanks.

[apersson850]

It has been discussed here before, but noone has found any way to set any default so far.

[holycatz]

Thanks, Anders. I was hoping someone/Garmin had modified this feature by now. It's not crucial, just annoying and a likely surprise for most new guys, who don't know it.
Bill

[CinderK]

All you've gotta do is go without a basemap! It's so simple!

Seriously, though... Do you find the basemap insufficient for finding cities in your area? It seems to be pretty good for me. Also (just a guess) it might be faster to search for lots-o-cities through the basemap, rather than through the much denser detailed maps.

CinderK

[holycatz]

<All you've gotta do it go without a basemap! It's so simple!>

I was afraid of that. I think I want my cake and eat it too. I often travel/tour by motorcycle to small cities, say Duck, NC on the outer banks. It’s on the detailed maps, but not on the base-map. However, I also sometimes like to know where places/small countries are, in a world sense, so I’m not willing to give up that powerful reference capability. I’d like to be able to give Betty a hierarchical preference on reference maps. Maybe on some future version of Quefind, we’ll get it

[Curious Cat]

Although you could manually do this, it would only be practical if someone wrote a small program to do this. It would work as follows: Click on button and it renames the extension on the basemap file and does soft reset. Another button does the same with the detailed map. Click buttons again and it reverses, puts the extension back to normal. This way you could selectively, temporarily disable either the basemap or the detailed maps and eliminate your choice from consideration in the search.

Another less high tech but more costly solution would be to have identical SD cards set up but with variances on the maps included. You could have one with the basemap and one without, etc. You could also have a basemap in RAM and then remove the SD card when you want to eliminate the detailed map but you would be limited to using a light version basemap of a particular area.