Map updates.

[portly]

I have been a subscriber and reader for a couple of years or so, but here goes with my first post. Faced with shelling out another £70 for new maps for my Street Pilot, I figured it made more sense to buy a new Nuvi 1300, and buy updates for life. Problem is, download is nearly 3.5 Gbits. My ISP monthly down load limit is 10 Gbit. It seems that I am not the first person to download a corrupt file. (Just google for problems). Download the file twice and have it fail and you are in the doody with your internet provider. ( B****r perhaps I should have stayed with option 3 )

The unit came preloaded with UK / ROI maps only. Great. That is all I need. My question is ... " am I the only person in the UK who does not want continental Europe maps ". I have asked Garmin download support if they could offer original maps only update as an option, but so far they seem unable to acknowledge the question.

I would like to hear others views.

[darrengsaw]

I was in your position too, I bought a 1310, basically the same as yours with UK and ROI maps, as I don't have any need for full euro maps.

Then I found out if you buy the lifetime map service you have to have full europe. I would have liked a cheaper option to install just the UK updates, but to no avail.

Makes you wonder why they supply the regional devices in the first place.
You can however install just the UK maps if you want, not that that is a consolation.

[dales]

[portly]

No sir. We are talking monthly limit here. i.e. 10 Gbits download per month max.

[Meter_Man]

Last map update took me 5 downloads before I got a successful one! My connection ends up getting throttled as a result which is probably why it fails due to the length of time taken.

Need to get up in the middle of the night next time as no throttling then!

[portly]

Meter_Man, that is a worry. I am waiting til the end of the month, before I download again, as I am nearing monthly limit now. If I am as unsuccesful as you, I shall have a complete failure, since the download appears to expire mid Feb. I am not sure why Garmin have to put a time limit in the download, since you can only use it on one machine. I am sure that if you could download just UK maps the file would be much much smaller, and quicker/easier to get.

I have seen comments on the web, suggesting that Garmins download manager is not the best. Have you tried downloading without it ??

[Allan_whoops]

I use something called Internet download manager which is a multi-threaded application with restart from where it had got to which works fine.

[portly]

Hi Allan_Whoops. Thanks for that, I will keep it in mind. I noticed on MyGarmin, that I can download without using their manager. I will try that first.

Do any of you have thoughts on my original post. That is do you want full Europe maps anyway, or would you prefer UK/ROI maps only. That is what the unit came with in the first place.

[MichaelCahill]

Ref your original topic, map updates for UK/Ireland only, perhaps https://buy.garmin.com/shop/shop.do?cID=253&pID=8424#productTab will give you what you need.

[portly]

Michael you are a star. I have previously searched Garmins site for such a beast, and have twice directly asked their support if it could be made available.
I wonder why they failed to point it out. When you log into their site, you are so readily routed and re-routed to full Europe maps, at much higher prices. Or am I being cynical ??

My difficulty now will be to get my life time update refunded.

I will let you know what happens.

[portly]

An update on this one then. Before I approached Garmin for a refund, I noticed that a newer update had been released. I downloaded this one and actually got to 82 % of the unpackaging process, before I got the dreaded " corrupt file " message. I rang Garmin UK around lunchtime on Monday, explained the problem and requested a refund. Their rep was polite and helpful, and good to his word, the refund arrived in my account yesterday. ( Friday ). Incidentally, I got an E-mail from my ISP on Wednesday, pointing out the penalties of exceeding my download limits. From my calculations, I should just slide through under limit by the end of the month.

All in all then, I think that the update for life is a great idea. Unfortunately with the size of file involved, I think that Garmin need to offer a reduced package, or do the download in smaller partitions, with full verification of the received data. You would then need to re download only the affected parts.

In the mean time, once again thanks to Michael for pointing me to the UK/ROI update. Even knowing that it is there, it still takes some finding on "MyGarmin".

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