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Old 11-09-2011, 02:13 PM
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Default Garmin Map Update Good News & Bad

The latest map update for your Garmin GPS is now available. It is version NA 2012.30 and was released today. The bad news is that the only street south of 466a to 44 is Buena Vista and that has been included in previous releases. Morse Blvd. is shown to end at 466a. None of the newly developed roads are included.

I checked the Navteq web site from which Garmin purchases it's maps and their maps also do not show any of the new area south of 466a. The Navteq site is a good site to check to see if areas that you may be interested in are included in the Garmin updates.

Now as a side note Garmin has reduced the size of one of the downloaded map files that deals with a feature called Junction View. Now Junction view is a feature that pops up on newer Garmin models that shows you the different lanes of the upcoming junction and tells you which lane to be in along with a visual display of the junction. Due to the available core memory in some Garmin models Garmin has reduced the size of the file to a "one fits all" size but that has greatly reduced the number of junction views available.

If you GPS has enough memory to handle the larger file it can be downloaded from http://download.garmin.com/support/2.../D3060040A.JCV
This file is 775 meg so make sure you have enough memory available or add an additional SD card as required by your unit.

VG