

| Subject: | Re: Heads Up Warning on Garmin GPS Map Update |
| From: | Loren Busch |
| Date: | Fri, 24 Apr 2009 10:20:25 -0700 |
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?
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