FIND CITY

[Keith Chapman]

I was out having a play today and wanted to use my GPSV to find me a route from Havant to Lower Farringdon.

I tried Find City and typed in Lower F and no place existed. I had to use menu Select map then pick the right map then enter Lower F. heypresto it is there .

All the maps are checked if I do a Mapsource info.

I have never noticed this before, is it a feature or a fault i am using version 2.2 and city select V5 but I do have V6 loaded aswell.

Anybody have any ideas????

 

[BurnieM]

Not sure but I note that the GPS V firmware is now up to v2.50

 

[firestarter]

I've noticed it as well - I think it's in the manual too (its 'a feature').

If you have Mapsource loaded it will default to searching that and not automatically fall back to the basemap. As you discovered, the basemap has to be manually selected in order to search it.

It's a pain in the arse

 

[PanEuropean]

Read this thread: Problems with the wife! in its entirety, especially the last post on the second page of the thread.

PanEuropean

 

[Keith Chapman]

Pan,
Thanks

I had down loaded all the relevant maps to my V for the area I was going to, but I have never had to do the extra SELECT before when doing a FIND.

 

[Keith Chapman]

this prob mat be caused by mixing V5 maps with V6 ones I will have to do some experimenting.

 

[Keith Chapman]

Well I have had a play and I cant replicate the fault.

I have tried a mixture of Mapsource versions and a mixture of downloaded maps, everything is OK. I have to select the correct version of mapsource to see a map if it was loaded from that version, but I no longer have to select a map which was already select in the gps mapsource info pages.

Confused, yep so am I. have garmin been taken over by microsoft

 

[PanEuropean]

Keith:

I remember that last summer, there was a minor bug in the SP 26xx software (very early release software - 2.10 or something like that) related to searching on certain criteria. The bug was that the GPSR would only search the map segment you were in, it would not look beyond that. This didn't affect all types of searches, just certain types.

Anyway - the bug was fixed. Garmin maintains very careful control over the different software packages for different GPSR's, so if one has a bug, they make sure that the bug gets fixed in all of them. It might be, because you are running old system software (2.2) that your GPSR is also affected by the bug that got fixed last summer. Try downloading the latest system software and updating your GPSR (you don't have to reload maps or anything like that), I bet your problems will go away.

In principle - try not to get more than 3 months behind on software updates. Updates don't always introduce new features, but they always fix bugs. FYI, I usually wait about 5 days before downloading a new release, just in case a new release unintentionally introduces a bug. This doesn't happen often, but it's part of life in the software indusry.

PanEuropean