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City Navigator North America 2019.10 is now available
The new maps are out. Discuss :)
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No, today is January 27th, 2019. We skipped 2018 this year. Don't you follow the news?
Anyway, now I'm worried about Garmin. Are they OK? Are they sick or something? This is the first time ever that a map update on my good old 276C went totally smoothly with absolutely no problems, and me not having to listen to Garmin tech support, including the supervisors, telling me that Map Updater is no longer supported so I can forget about that, and anyway the new maps are not compatible with my 276C, trying to hustle me into buying a new GPS, which has always happened before. Always. Something must be wrong there.
https://mapcreator.here.com/mapcreator/
I upgraded all three of my devices as soon as the update was available. I'm also now hearing there were problems...it was pulled...and now available again? True?
Should I reinstall?
And...I'm curious if anyone knows what the problems were, if any, with the original update.
It is City Navigator North America 2019.10 you are trying to download, right? CN Europe is still at 2018.30.
As for Garmin, when you don't say nuttin', people will wonder, and some will guess, and then the rumor mill starts grinding away.
That's what's happening. It's normal and natural behavior.
In the course of running my own business I always let my clients know the exact nature of any issue that comes up.
No one minds knowing, no one likes guessing, and it saves having to do unnecessary damage control.
Peachy. B-)
Still, if I were the King of Garmin, I'd have been in front of this right away with a simple announcement of what they knew and what they we're doing to address it instead of leaving it with a "Houston...We have a problem" statement. Rumor control is easier than damage control.
So I plugged in my Zumo and indeed, an update was available. It only took a moment so maybe (it is rumored :-) ) it's a small fix to whatever the problem might have been. Someone reported that it may have something to do with a time zone fix (another rumor) but I stupidly (it is rumored) installed it before I read the details. My bad.
I'll try the other devices when I have some time.
Sorry if I just added more rumors. I don't make the news...I just report it.
(Like a lot of news these days, I don't bother verifying it first either. :-j )
How would that affect a GPS?
The time zone map is a world map, and AFAIK this newest update didn't affect anything in North America.
I just returned from Asia and Garmin is everywhere in the form of GPS and dash cams, some fine dashcams not seen in North America.
I'd be curious to know who is responsible for the mapset in North America and if they're being developed at their HQ in Taiwan or USA.
Note: I am using an older version of Garmin Express (v 5.5.0.0) because my laptop is Windows Vista and that is the last version that will work. I don't think the version of Express is related to the 2019.10 update problem though.
I still question if PNDs are getting much attention from Garmin. I have Garmin fitness devices that use Garmin Connect. The connect App is updated monthly.