Thread: City Navigator® North America NT 2012.20

What are you talking about??? What misleading info? Your're providing misleading info. Copying a 340 mb file onto your 7x5 will consumer 340 mb. It doesnt matter how much the device sees or use, it still sucks up storage space, your GPS does not have unlimited storage. duh! Each device is different in storage capacity. This is why if you download the map through Garmin, the downloader updates how much it needs on your device. If your're suggesting the .jcv files are not backwards compatible, that is correct. If that's what you're trying to say, then please do so.

The fact I dont like how the downloads are setup and how the moderator is handling things is irrelevant.

Originally Posted by Frustated XT user

What are you talking about??? What misleading info? Your're providing misleading info. Copying a 340 mb file onto your 7x5 will consumer 340 mb. It doesnt matter how much the device sees or use, it still sucks up storage space, your GPS does not have unlimited storage. duh! Each device is different in storage capacity. This is why if you download the map through Garmin, the downloader updates how much it needs on your device. If your're suggesting the .jcv files are not backwards compatible, that is correct. If that's what you're trying to say, then please do so.

The fact I dont like how the downloads are setup and how the moderator is handling things is irrelevant.

Misleading info? You telling people that they can take their old JCV files from 2012.10 and use them in 2012.20 is misleading. It's hyperbole on your part, and it is flat out wrong information. At this point, no one should take you seriously, because you have proven yourself to not be credible.

Your discontent with the downloads and how Catymag chooses to run the site has bearing upon your credibility because it shows to all who look that you have an axe to grind. It is said that the guilty often are the first ones to jump to the defensive whenever their point of view is questioned. I'd say you've condemned yourself.

EDIT: I had to read your post a second time. In your arrogance you completely missed the point. Garmin is pushing a 51MB file to users of its nüvi receivers who upgrade their units to 2012.20 and that have small amounts of memory. 51MB is approximately 10% (actual number: 11.4%) of the full file. Which means there is no possible way that the small file can contain every junction view present in the large file. Please explain to me just how that is misleading, because numbers do not lie.

Originally Posted by smokefree

Just to look at things from a different perspective... is the 51 MB JCV file so much smaller than the 446 MB file because it contains less images of junctions? Or could it be the file size is smaller because the images have a lower resolution...??

I downloaded the smaller file linked in the first post and installed it just to see what would happen. The test route I ran was from the intersection of Route 81 and Rodman Street in Fall River, Massachusetts to a friend's house in Moncton, NB. The large file had 15 Junction Views along the route. The same route with the smaller file had zero.

The smaller file has fewer images.