2011.3 maps

[Wapping]

I subscribe to the Numaps service, which as worked fine up until now.

The latest downloads lost all my unlock codes which Garmin have now been kind enough to remind me of. I can now use the maps, which is handy.

I notice that the 2011.3 map at the 0.30 mile scale and finer now has broken brown brown lines running along many of the streets, rather like county boundaries or country borders on a conventional paper map.

Does anyone have an idea as to what these might be?

Cheers,

Richard

 

[Sleepy]

Any particular area? mine seems not to have this.

Edit: just plotting a route to Battersea, and seen them.. they appear to be 'trails' as opposed to roads.

 

[Bumpkin]

Bus/cycle lanes

 

[Wapping]

Bus/cycle lanes

Not as far as I can see.....

.......but now that I look at them closely they do seem to be footpaths, closed to road traffic.

I only worked this out by looking where the broken brown dotted lines went in an area around my house. For instance, it follows the Thames footpath along the front of the Tower of London / through and around Wapping Gardens and the old Port of London docks. I guess it is so GPS users can plot routes to avoid trafic when on foot?

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I have greater problems though to sort out with Garmin at the moment.... all down to their bloody software updates. My 660 will be sailing through their window attached to a brick fairly shortly. The encouraging news is that they can replicate my problems..... but cannot fix them...... leaving me up Sh1t Creek without even the hint of a paddle.

 

[Bumpkin]

.......but now that I look at them closely they do seem to be footpaths, closed to road traffic.

Well if that's what they are then they also appear in my copies of 2011.10 and 2011.20. Maybe 2011.30 has more of them though?

 

[AshR1]

Are they our bike filtering lanes between the traffic?

 

[ghiribizzo]

Having noted this thread yesterday, I plugged in the Zumo 660 (I have a Nuvi 765T for the car) and started the download.
The prompt for the map codes surprised me but, as it said, they are on the Maps page so a bit of copy and paste and it was away.
The second surprise was the prompt to consider which maps to download. The last update I did a month or so ago would not allow me to load all the European maps in one go.
No amount of fiddling would have it do the whole set. That meant that if I wanted Slovenia, I'd not have been able to get the UK and Holland in. I'd set that aside as a problem to deal with soon. Therefore I was pleased to see that this time the selection all of Europe seemed to be allowable, no problem.
So, was the last issue a bug? Anyway - still awaiting the download, yes, 24 hours later due to Garmin's servers and Pipex/Tiscali's rubbish speeds it's still only a quarter of the way through the 3632Mb download.
So I haven't seen the lines mentioned. Yet.

Someday it will finish...

 

[Bumpkin]

No amount of fiddling would have it do the whole set. That meant that if I wanted Slovenia, I'd not have been able to get the UK and Holland in. I'd set that aside as a problem to deal with soon.

The default options for areas of mapping to download to the unit, should all of Europe not be able to fit on, are somewhat limiting in my experience. ISTR that the 765T (I have one of those as well as my SP2720) has 4GB, or thereabouts, of memory. Fitting Europe into that shouldn't be an issue for many years to come. I assume that, being from the same family, that the 660 has the same Maybe you had loads of MP3s on it last time around?

If you do have issues with not having enough room you aren't stuck with the default options for mapping areas. Downloading the mapping to your PC and properly unlocking it there will allow you to generate a custom primary mapping file, selecting the mapping tiles you want and sending this to a suitably sized memory card or USB stick from within Mapsource. This will be called 'gmapsupp.img', all you do then is rename it to 'gmapprom.img' and transfer it to your unit. Best to save the existing 'gmapprom.img' to your hard drive first though. All the map generation and transfers can take several hours though.

For Garmins that don't have the ability of being read or written to as an external drive, such as my SP2720, you can use some command line code to send the mapping to the unit, though there's no way of backing up your existing primary mapping. Here's how (long thread).

Please note that this isn't a means of getting pirated mapping onto a unit, the mapping needs to be unlocked on your PC with the unlock code specific to your Garmin GPS. With the more recent versions of Mapsource this must be done on-line with the GPS connected via USB at the same time.

still awaiting the download, yes, 24 hours later due to Garmin's servers and Pipex/Tiscali's rubbish speeds it's still only a quarter of the way through the 3632Mb download.

By today's standard that's a pretty appalling connection you have there On the few map downloads I've done previously the bottle-neck has always been my connection, not Garmin's.

 

[ghiribizzo]

Thanks - I'll bear that in mind but this time, no such problem in loading all of Europe on mine. With the '20' update it was. I did retrace my steps and try that quite a few times.

So far I don't see any hassle but I'm not seeing any broken brown lines on any roads despite zooming way in.
I'll try taking it out this afternoon and comparing it with the Nuvi on the 2011.20 update.

 

[Bumpkin]

So far I don't see any hassle but I'm not seeing any broken brown lines on any roads despite zooming way in.
I'll try taking it out this afternoon and comparing it with the Nuvi on the 2011.20 update.

On the unit (well on my 765T with 2011.20 mapping) they are faint dotted lines (faint thin blue/grey solid lines across parks). The fat brown dotted lines are in Mapsource where they are far more obvious.

 

[Doberman]

I am still with the 2011.10 version of the maps. I am thinking of purchasing the 'lifetime upgrade' but is there an actual difference between the maps? I can't find what changes have been made.
I am only thinking that if the differences relate to countries I am not planning on going to, what is the point?
Any thoughts?

 

[Goose]

I am still with the 2011.10 version of the maps. I am thinking of purchasing the 'lifetime upgrade' but is there an actual difference between the maps? I can't find what changes have been made.
I am only thinking that if the differences relate to countries I am not planning on going to, what is the point?
Any thoughts?

My thoughts exactly... I mean unless there are new area's and new roads... what is the point.
In SA the new versions come out fast and furious, but one finds that most have new POI's ... and the only reason for the new version.
IMO it's a ploy to get people to upgrade

 

[Bumpkin]

There are updates to the mapping data as road layouts change, one way priorities change etc. There are obviously lead times involved in surveying and incorporating the changes so it's not exactly real-time.

Whether it's worth your while subscribing to lifetime updates or doing the occasional one-time update is up to you. If you plan to keep your GPS for more than three years or are a 'road warrior' I would say lifetime is the way to go.

Last summer I did a one time update (previously I've updated every two years), you can now get lifetime updates for less money

You'll only know the difference when you find your out of date mapping lacking. Admittedly this will be rare. It's a matter of choice.

 

[Major Gadget]

Life time Mapping

I bought my Lifetime mapping for my Zumo 660 off Ebay last year. I downloaded the latest mapping yesterday which is nt2011.32 with no problem. I use Plusnet on a BT Line It took 75 mins. to download, and 55 mins. to download from the PC to the 660.I see that the dealer I bought the mapping from on ebay is now selling them for £54 with free P&P.