Thread: Need Info about USA/CANADA Maps 2017.Q1

They sure *look* like TomTom 2017.03 maps to me! :-) Both Primo 2.4 (405512) and iGo View show them as TomTom 2017.03 maps.

I also compared them to TomTom 2015.09 maps (I happened to have those still) and they are *definitely* different - different file sizes and everything...

Here is the Primo 2.4 map versions screen (I only updated the Pennsylvania maps):

Spoiler: pic

Could the dates in the files be altered? Sure... I'll have to check for a recent road change - will report back.. If they are really from 2015, that road change definitely wouldn't be there...

Not sure how to be 100% sure they are not copies of some other map. One thing that does look strange to me is that in iGoView, all of the maps say "File description: Israel Map" at the top... :-) Hard to believe that NNG would make that mistake...

EDIT: That recent road change *is* in these maps, so they are definitely newer than 2015...

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Originally Posted by jtrosky

...that in iGoView, all of the maps say "File description: Israel Map" at the top... :-) Hard to believe that NNG would make that mistake...

That is just description by (old) software for a looong time....
All fbl files are defined like Israel map
all other files that come in same folder are map
POI are described like POI Australia_WhereiS_21, New_Zealand_WhereiS_10, etc...

It comes from a time when there were not many map editions, who knows, it is possible that they lead the origin from from the publications of that time and keeped it that way, maybe it is related to some of the contracts.
Main program and its database are not supplemented and modified for a long time...
And an internal marking of nng has an impact, since all files (ftr, fpa...) are detected as fbl - probably designed to make the program easier to handle with them - ie as a supplement to the main fbl file...
While someone from nng does (not) confirm this, we can only guess

Originally Posted by xEddie

I've tried everything to get the Naviextras toolbox to work bust just like someone said you need a genuine sd card to be able to purchase the maps so i give up unless someone has a way of buying the maps and i'll just paypal him/her the money if not the moderators can close the thread

Did you see my above post - #24? They were just bought.

EDIT: Incidentally, I'm trying to get the POIs but Naviextra is having problems.