Date:         Fri, 24 Apr 2009 13:28:18 -0400
Reply-To:     Sudhir Desai <sudhir.desai@GMAIL.COM>
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From:         Sudhir Desai <sudhir.desai@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: Heads Up Warning on Garmin GPS Map Update
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And to think in this age of cheaper and smaller storage devices with
more memory, a company such as Garmin, who is one of the leaders in
the consumer GPS field, can't just keep adding without deleting. (And
hopefully implementing a smarter search function that takes into
account GPS coordinates, not just names.)

My $.02 on this beautiful Friday afternoon.

Sudhir


On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 13:20, Loren Busch <starwagen@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 10:11 AM, Michael Sullivan
> <sandwichhead@gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> I have the Nuvi 750 and that is good info to know.  Will hold off on any
>> updates, but do they say if they can fix this w/another release? Thx.
>>
>
> I was unable to get any response from the cartography department at Garmin
> even though they post their email address on the support site.  And the
> responses from the regular support section were of no help at all, the usual
> type that assumed that I didn't know what I was talking about and that I'd
> made a mistake.  I finally got some help through a user forum and the
> moderator of that forum that happens to be a Garmin dealer and had the right
> contacts.  In the conversations that took place apparently Garmin
> acknowledged that they had deleted many, many small towns from the map,
> supposedly those with zero population.  They did this to improve searches by
> getting rid of duplicate town names.  I've found one specific example of
> this, the search on on town name yields about 10 or 12 entries across the
> whole country in the old software, only four in the new.
> So I don't expect this to change in future updates.  Maybe if enough people
> complain they will restore that data, who knows?
>