Thread: Garmin TOPO Austria (Topo Osterreich) v3

Extensive testing now shows the following for me:

1. only Transalpine (+SQL) on SD
   
   • colour highlighting works
   • trail search works
   • this is expected behaviour
2. only Austria v3 (+SQL) on SD
   
   • colour highlighting does NOT work
   • trail search works
   • this is NOT expected behaviour
3. both maps (+both SQL) on SD
   
   • both enabled
     
     • colour highlighting works for content of BOTH MAPS
     • trail search only Topo Austria Trails
     • this is expected behaviour for the highlighting and unexpected behaviour for the trail search, but could be explained by a conflict of having two SQL .db files on one card
   • Austria enabled, Transalpine disabled
     
     • colour highlighting does NOT work
     • trail search only Topo Austria Trails
     • this is NOT expected behaviour for the highlighting
   • Austria disabled, Transalpine enabled
     
     • colour highlighting works
     • trail search only Topo Austria Trails
     • this is NOT expected behaviour for the highlighting, for trail search see above
4. both maps (+ ONLY austria SQL) on SD
   
   • highlighting is EXACTLY the same as with both SQL files
   • trail search is EXACTLY the same as with both SQL files
5. both maps (+ ONLY transalpine SQL) on SD
   
   • highlighting is EXACTLY the same as with both SQL files
   • trail search now only for Transalpine
6. both maps (+ NO SQL FILE) on SD
   
   • highlighting is EXACTLY the same as with both SQL files
   • no Trails button in search available

In summary, I found the following things:

• highlighting has NOTHING to do with the SQL files, they are totally unrelated
• SQL files are only used for the trail search function
• the austria SQL file overrides the transalp SQL file
• you can only use one SQL file on the montana in trail search, how it is determined which one is used I don't yet know, but I'm investigating
• the topo austria v3 highlighting ONLY works when topo transalpine 2012 is on the same card and enabled as well

For the SQL file problem, I will look into a possibility of combining the databases in one file and report back once I know more...
But how do we solve the highlighting problem? Any ideas?

Since I don't have my original TopoAustria SD Card here right now,

could anyone confirm if the highlighting works on the original SD

cause I slowly have a suspicion that this might also not work on the original map.. maybe a bug in the firmware or in the released map?

For completeness sake, all of this was tested on a Montana 650 with FW 4.20.