V10 of maps due soon?

benhutchings · Occasional Visitor Joined: Oct 13, 2006 Posts: 9

Hi, I have had an i3 with v8 maps for a couple of years. I need to use the unit for a trip through Europe in September so was just about to upgrade to the latest UK&Ireland (the EU basemap was fine for me in France last year) but I see that v9 was released about 10 months ago! I'm loath to buy old maps right now. Does anyone have any idea when the next version is due?

Thanks,
Ben

swing · Posted: Wed Jul 11, 2007 5:18 pm Post subject:

I would hazard a guess they will be announced in a couple of months time, to coincide with the 12 month anniversary of the v9 maps (as they did with the v9 maps). However, as with the v9 maps, the upgrade DVD took a little while longer to be made available, and a little longer again to ship out to us.

So, if you think you'll get the City Navigator Europe 2008 maps (ie v10) before you go on holiday this year, you are likely to be disappointed.
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Chrol · Occasional Visitor Joined: Aug 15, 2006 Posts: 14

Contacted Garmin customer services yesterday and I was told that v10 maps will be available October 2007 or maybe slightly earlier. It will cost £50 to upgrade from v9.

Looks like my new Nuvi 310 is going to cost me more than I thought !

benhutchings · Occasional Visitor Joined: Oct 13, 2006 Posts: 9

Ok thanks both, I'll have to think about borrowing one with new maps, or just hope that not TOO much has changed in the last year and a half!

£50 sounds reasonable I guess.

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PaulB2005 · Posted: Sat Jul 21, 2007 8:42 am Post subject:

Should be the same cost as you are just buying a new map, i hope.

missing_user · Joined: Aug 30, 2008 Posts: -7

Garmin maps are confusing:
V9 CityNavigator Europe was available in NEW units last October 2006.

But the existing customers upgrading to v9 were unable to buy them until February 2007! It cost £46 for the unlock code for two units [this has been reduced to one unit since June]

So the v10 may well be available in new units in the Autumn but the free update DVD's may well be held up [as they have been in recent years] until the New Year!

The major changes in v9 was the inclusion of Ireland to 'full' detail, so the new versions contained very little new detail for my recent 4200 mile trip through France + Italy!

If you are going to Ireland before the Autumn then buy v9 because v8 has little real detail!

Visit the Garmin website and compare a region on your PC with your 'existing' versions, against the same area shown online with v9 [and in October v10 or perhaps renamed 2008!]

Remember, that update DVD's are free and you pay Garmin for the 'unlock' later, unlike eBay where the free DVDs are being sold for up to £100.

Robin2 · Posted: Sun Jul 22, 2007 5:26 pm Post subject:

The people who benefited most last time around were those who only had UK maps. The same activation fee brought them the whole of Western Europe
Robin
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PaulB2005 · Posted: Mon Sep 03, 2007 8:51 am Post subject:

Response from Garmin this morning....

benhutchings · Occasional Visitor Joined: Oct 13, 2006 Posts: 9

Ok, yea I was told the same thing on the phone last week. I called up to register the product (I'd list reg code) and get the DVD for updates.

Unfortunately that afternoon I managed to 'break' the Streetpilot, I loaded too many pois or something, too many subfolders maybe and now it wont do anything involving pois or routing, and if left on turns itslef off after a few mins.

No time to fix it as I need SatNav to guide me around 9 coutries in europe later this week (club tour rally thing), so I bought a TomTom One EU on Saturday. Very impressed, to think it cost me the same as the Streetpilot 2 years ago, love the way new technology gets cheaper so quickly.

So yea, Garmin ownership is over. Nice while it lasted, served me well.

Cheers!

darrensandford · Occasional Visitor Joined: Aug 31, 2007 Posts: 5

I only bought my nuvi 610 four days ago. If I'd known that the new maps were imminent, I would've waited. Maybe.

benhutchings · Occasional Visitor Joined: Oct 13, 2006 Posts: 9

I reckon you could pull a free upgrade when they come out. As tis OVER a year since the last ones I think, and seeing that Garmin seemed nice and reasonable when I called them they would let you.
Otherwise they are selling an outdated product in many ways, and you could mention that new TomTom users get a 30 day free map upgrade code that allows them to update maps to the version around WHEN they buy the product.

adrian_anastas · Regular Visitor Joined: Mar 27, 2006 Posts: 73

PaulB2005 · Posted: Mon Sep 03, 2007 4:53 pm Post subject:

adrian_anastas · Regular Visitor Joined: Mar 27, 2006 Posts: 73

Guess I should have been more clear. By new users I did mean that useer that had bought a unit with a mapset older than the currently released mapset.

As for my accident, I have been purchasing updates every year since my first Garmin (GPSV) in 2003. Since they changed their upgrade procedure to using the My Garmin website it is much easier to order the update discs. I have since purchased a Nuvi V9 maps, and I beleive that their user policy allows each map license to be applied to two units.

Based on the previous thread I guess some of us were expecting new maps around Octobver, but it sounds a little later than that Crying or Very sad

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