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Garmin Map Update - 2/20/2020
- Thread starter exgman
- Start date
lee
Debbie's Servant
It fixed both of our Nav Vs.
rangerreece
RangerReece
Thanks
Thanks John and Joe... I’ll dismount the NAV VI when I get home and perform the updates. It’s very helpful to see these update reminders in the forums.
Thanks John and Joe... I’ll dismount the NAV VI when I get home and perform the updates. It’s very helpful to see these update reminders in the forums.
exgman
Active member
With 57F in Boston today I rode around for 50-miles using the NavV to see if anything changed with the update. It seems to have a new female voice, the database seemed to know every stop-sign and traffic light in the western suburbs of Boston, and even better, the speed-limit changes happened instantly. Looks good so far...
lee
Debbie's Servant
My Nav V has always changed the speed limit display very close to the sign. I wish Garmin would do a better job of updating speed limit display.
It's not unusual the speed limit display on the Garmin is wrong.
What do you mean by "database seemed to know every stop-sign and traffic light in the western suburbs of Boston"
Do you see a symbol for stop signs and traffic lights?
exgman
Active member
Well, my past experience was that the speed-limit signs in my NavV always would change up to 1/2-mile beyond the place where the physical sign was located on the road. This seemed most common on smaller roads in smaller towns.
My observation about stop-signs/traffic signals is not visual, but is an audible direction by the NavV voice telling me when navigating, as an example, "turn right at the stop sign," or "turn left at the traffic light." Occasionally when navigating I'll hear something like: "Turn left after the church." It does seem to have more information than before. I have my NavV preference set on the most detailed setting. Perhaps that's the reason? I dunno.
lee
Debbie's Servant
Thanks. I also have my set to More Detail.
alancoles
Dress for fall & avoid it
Interesting John how it appears that each Garmin GPS model seems to use a different size map file.
View attachment 77311
Your Nav-V appears to be a different size than my Nav-VI file and my three other Garmin GPS units are also all different:
View attachment 77311
Your Nav-V appears to be a different size than my Nav-VI file and my three other Garmin GPS units are also all different:
- Nav-V = 5.6GB
- Nav-VI = 6.05GB
- DriveAssit50 = 6.87GB
- Nuvi 58 = 3.79GB
- Nuvi 56 = 3.42GB
lee
Debbie's Servant
I checked the map update size for ours and it shows 6.05GB for both Nav V and 5.02GB for the Nuvi.
alancoles
Dress for fall & avoid it
Well, that makes things interesting Lee.
John, I took it your post showing 5.6GB was for your Nav-V, was it? Perhaps I shouldn't have assumed that.
John, if that 5.9GB was for your Nav-V, and Lee's Nav-V map size showed as 5.02GB, I'm wondering if it has to do with respective computer operating systems. IIRC, John you use a Mac, don't you? Certainly, we've seen that Garmin releases system updates with different version #s at different times for the two OSs which is natural.
Never spent any time with Apple IOs (don't care for proprietary systems) so I don't know if their file sizes are different for the same things, but, that could easily be, much like a book in French will be approximately 20% longer than the same book in English.
John, I took it your post showing 5.6GB was for your Nav-V, was it? Perhaps I shouldn't have assumed that.
Lee, which model Nuvi do you have? On Saturday I just helped setup a friend's new Zumo 396LM and forgot to note the map file size.
John, if that 5.9GB was for your Nav-V, and Lee's Nav-V map size showed as 5.02GB, I'm wondering if it has to do with respective computer operating systems. IIRC, John you use a Mac, don't you? Certainly, we've seen that Garmin releases system updates with different version #s at different times for the two OSs which is natural.
Never spent any time with Apple IOs (don't care for proprietary systems) so I don't know if their file sizes are different for the same things, but, that could easily be, much like a book in French will be approximately 20% longer than the same book in English.
lee
Debbie's Servant
alancoles
Dress for fall & avoid it
So it would appear that your Nav-V and my Nav-VI are likely using the same file, which is what I would have expected as the differences between the two units are not related to the maps as I recall.
Wondering if John's different file size is due to him using a Mac or something like that.
Wondering if John's different file size is due to him using a Mac or something like that.
