Thread: City Navigator Australia & New Zealand NT 2013.20 (Sensis)

Originally Posted by catymag

You can run both deselecting one at a time, but cant use them together coz covering the same routing area, probably Nuvi wouldnt show one of the two or have weird behaviour. Then, if maps have the same FID you cant deselect one coz Nuvi thinks just one map is loaded.

Just gave it a shot and it works ok in a 1390. I sometimes have both a routable Topo and CN for the same area both selected together as it makes the combined geographic and metro POI all available to search which is useful and have never had issues.

So in this case I changed the FID of the Sensis version so it's not the same as Navteq, and with both loaded and selected the Sensis sits on top and is visible. The different sets POI's combine and are searched together which is quite neat, and the routing and navigating also seem to work fine.

I have to test a bit more to see how it handles the newer roads in the unseen layer but so far so good.

Thanks Neil, you're right just checked & I mistakenly obtained the 2627 FID from a 2013.10 Sensis img thinking it was the Navteq and they were the same so the intention had been to differentiate them.

Carty & yourself may be well be right with dual CN's eventually clashing, I know it's not recommended but have never had a problem with the Topo/CN combo but that said it's not something I would leave long term anyway if nothing else purely for the sake of multiple layers slowing the unit down.

The primary interest is not navigation it is - for short periods - the ability to "stack" the maps to pool all the POI's together for far deeper and more effective searches which I find very useful at times. The POI's have always been quite different between Topo & CN, but now also between the differing CN's. To me the benefits of this far outweigh the risk of a minor blip at the time, maybe not everyones cup of tea but I'm sure there are others who would also find this a useful technique. It's one of those little things in life you don't really appreciate until you try it.

Originally Posted by Bushwalker8

The primary interest is not navigation it is - for short periods - the ability to "stack" the maps to pool all the POI's together for far deeper and more effective searches which I find very useful at times. The POI's have always been quite different between Topo & CN, but now also between the differing CN's. To me the benefits of this far outweigh the risk of a minor blip at the time, maybe not everyones cup of tea but I'm sure there are others who would also find this a useful technique. It's one of those little things in life you don't really appreciate until you try it.

Yes, loading multiple maps of the same area will have their POIs combined, even when some maps are unchecked in the Tools setting. This trick is used by some people in China.

What happened is: they bought or brought back a foreign (outside of China) Garmin GPS device which can display maps in Simplified Chinese, but has no way to input Chinese for searching. Without searching capability, the device is close to useless. To enable searching, they actually install two CN China maps, one in Simplified Chinese and one in English. The latter is unchecked all the time. Now, to search a POI they simply enter its English name in PinYin and the POI found will be displayed on the Simplified Chinese map, ready for navigation.

There seems to be no problems reported so far with two such CN China maps installed.

Originally Posted by Neil

Anyone got the JCV file from a nuvi 40/50 for either Sensis or Navteq 2013.20? Both would be great!

Here's a JCV from Navtech 2013.20 on a Nuvi 50
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