Garmin City Navigator NT China 2014.20 NI

**qsq** · 26th July 2014, 10:53 PM

thanks for replay, I downloaded Chinese map, and want to search address by Chinese, but pinyin did not convert to Chinese word.
some ways could do that?

**Neil** · 26th July 2014, 11:36 PM

I'm not fully understanding your problem now. The maps posted [both Official shifted and Venus shift-corrected] are Chinese only. The unit must be Chinese language capable for searching in Chinese because Pinyin input won't work with Chinese only maps.

**qsq** · 27th July 2014, 12:05 AM

actually, I have US unit, downloaded Chinese map from here, but could not do any address search in Chinese.
I thought one from other post here, install English one and Chinese one together, and then could do English pinyin searching.
but it looks like not working, taking a long long time. Is another way could do that?

**Neil** · 27th July 2014, 01:29 AM

The info that it's not a Chinese unit was important. Try leaving both loaded but with only the Chinese map selected leaving the English one unchecked in myMaps and you can then seach by POI at least. This post by syzygy will explain further: [Only registered and activated users can see links. ].

Originally Posted by syzygy

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.