Thread: Garmin City Navigator Europe NT(Unicode) 2015.10

Originally Posted by papaschlum

BTW, I've just fixed your post #117 immediately above where you had the quote wrongly attributed to [Only registered and activated users can see links. ] when it should have been Roger ... So one good turn deserves another ol' Pal! ..... Dammit! Why is my back still itchy??

Sorry I do not read that had written by me. Here is always ready Pal with itching back but who prefer to put his claws on other white and gentle back

@papaschlum
As an older device, your eTrex Vista HCx would not be fully compatible with unicode maps. See [Only registered and activated users can see links. ]. Best stick with non-unicode EU 2014.40 to be safe. I concude from your question that you're using MapSource to compile an image. Sorry to say, MS is not fully compatible with large CN and Topo maps, so better to use MapInstall for them. To answer your question though, if the map is routable anyway [as this one is] that field will be automatically greyed out in MS anyway.

@IceMatrix
I suppose you're talking about your Kenwood with that question. I can't remember with them if that's the case, but for sure it's not to do with the map. It's a firmware thing and older Garmin units with ABC keyboards certainly enter only Capital letters in the search field.

Next non-unicode CN EU will be 2015.20 in August. Only two releases a year now for it.

Originally Posted by Neil

Next non-unicode CN EU will be 2015.20 in August. Only two releases a year now for it.

Thanks Garmin
Tht is no way to treat customers with old models that just to cost a lot in those days

Originally Posted by persep

Thanks Garmin
Tht is no way to treat customers with old models that just to cost a lot in those days

Two upgrades annually entirely enough

Do you think there is something a lot of important in these upgrades

Originally Posted by persep

Thanks Garmin
Tht is no way to treat customers with old models that just to cost a lot in those days

I think Garmin does not have sufficient resources to compile so many maps every 3 month. It is called as the growing pains.

Originally Posted by persep

Thanks Garmin
Tht is no way to treat customers with old models that just to cost a lot in those days

They do have a legal loophole though. This is from the 'Requirements' tab of the EU LM page [nice place to hide stuff you don't want ppl to read. Score 1 for the Legal Team , 0 for the Consumers]. My emphasis in red:

Terms and Limitations

If you purchase a n�Maps Lifetime subscription (sold separately), you will receive up to 4 (four) map data updates per year, when and as such updates are made available on Garmin�s website, for 1 (one) compatible Garmin product until your product�s useful life expires or Garmin no longer receives map data from its third-party supplier, whichever is shorter.

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Note the other nasty. If they stop receiving map data from the supplier they can drop you like a hot rock. AU Sensis is now only updated twice annually, soon that may stop altogether because Garmin switched to Navteq/HERE for map data exclusively on new devices well over 2 years ago. I can't see them continuing to pay for Sensis data ad infinitum. Will be interesting to see what they do when all the 1/2/3xx0 LM holders scream blue murder if they do drop Sensis completely.

The other above posts are fair comment though for EU because the data is the same in EU and EUU releases.