[OSM-talk] How big of an SD card should I get for Openstreetmap work

[Maarten Deen]

Iván Sánchez Ortega wrote:
> El Sábado, 30 de Mayo de 2009, Paul Houle escribió:
>> I just got a Garmin Etrex Vista HCx that I'd like to use for viewing
>> Openstreetmaps and for creating tracks I can upload.  I'm about to buy
>> an SD card for this:  how big of a card do I need to hold Openstreetmaps?
> 
> AFAIK, the biggest microSD card that you can put into an eTrex is a 2 GB card 
> (the bigger microSD-HC cards won't work). You can have them for less than 
> five bucks nowadays, so go buy one.
> 
> I held onto a 1 GB card since I bought an eTrex - OSM maps for Spain spend 
> less than 50 MB of space; and the rest of the card can hold *months* worth of 
> GPX tracks.

Spain apparently is not mapped very densly. I recently downloaded not even all 
of Germany and got a 370MB file.

But I agree: SD cards cost next to nothing, I would buy the biggest that the 
device can use.

Regards,
Maarten