Thanks Caty for moving. I had the same thought as it had become quite OT in the ntu map thread, and i believe the topic has 'legs' and needs to be discussed. I'm sure 'SP' agrees.

I'm highly suspicious of Garmin Express as you know i'm sure. That suspicion may not be sustained or justified when GE is developed further as perhaps it will evolve into something more acceptable to me. My biggest concern is not being able to re-download a LT map which may have been lost for some reason, or perhaps was originally installed only to the device and you now wish to install it on a PC for legitimate use. That is unless it's been changed in later versions. I'm still with v2.1.4 and haven't done the last updates intentionally until i see where it goes. Of interest is that 2.1.8 burns LifeTimeUpdater as Roger points out. I've got GE on Win8 and Lifetimeupdater on Win7 so maybe that wouldn't happen if i did update to 2.1.8 because it would only look on the current os partition for Lifetime i'm sure. I prefer not to use lifetimeupdater anyway so i don't really care.

  • What do others prefer to use for Lifetime map and fw and files updates?
  • Am i alone in my wariness of GE or do others share this?
  • Do you think Garmin will kill off MapUpdater and maybe even WebUpdater as well?
  • What about MyGarmin/MyDashboard?


We have been a bit 'spoiled for choice' for software and files updates really.