[Virtual Geezer]

The latest Garmin City Navigator North America NT version 2013.30 is now available for updating the maps on your Garmin device. To get a quick look at the streets south of 466a that are covered you can go to MapQuest and zoom in on that area. I am in process of updating one of my units right now and will report back on what areas are covered.

Another heads up is regarding Garmins lifetime update policy. Garmin now requires that the GPS be updated at every 2 tears or it determines that unit is no longer in service and will be pulled from their database. So upgrade you unit and avoid the possibility of not being able to update the base maps.

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Update

I looked at the maps after the upgrade and am very disappointed in Garmin this time. Garmin purchases their maps from NavTeq and I have found in the past as soon as MapQuest shows a new area it will be in the next Garmin upgrade. MapQuest has been showing Pinellas Pl going all the way from Morse to Buena Vista for over a month now and this is NOT included in the latest map update. Anything west of Birdsong Pl. off Pinellas Pl. is NOT shown in the new update. Defoe Ter and Eastfield Path and streets that run off of those streets are NOT shown. I guess we will all have to wait until the next update to get up to date with the new area.

VG