So I downloaded my state (NJ) all even number zoom levels. Granted NJ is a small state, but it took up 446 MB (2.4 GB on disk on NTFS) and on a FAT 32 MMC it's looking like it's going to take about 600 MB (not done copying yet). Has anyone else had the idea to download all the states and torrent them? Obviously it wouldn't fit on a MMC card, but there are laptop hard drives that use little enough power that they can be run off USB alone, or certainly off just a power inverter in the car (or just grab the maps you want for where you're going off your computer).

My completely uneducated guess would say all of the US could be stored on in about 100gb, perhaps less if gnuite was willing to slightly modify the program to allow for dynamic resizing of maps, or perhaps import from say... streets and trips? If M$ can fit all of it's driving data on 1 650 MB CD, maybe there's a way to convert all that into something MM can understand?

just an idea for those of us w/o data on our cell plans... thoughts?