State only Maps ??

Once long ago though, Garmin autonav units (Street Pilot, GPS V, etc) had very limited memory and could only hold a small portion of the USA, most of the time, not even one state. They included only a "region" or section of the US that could be selected and transferred to the unit. This was back when City Navigator was known as City Select.

Nowdays, The lower-end nuvis like the 200 come with what are called "regional maps" (or the lower 48 states). I have never heard of any recent units coming with only one state installed.

The 200/205/200W/205W contain United States (48) only, not Canada or Alaska. The 250/250W/255/255W include Canada and Alaska. No Garmin, even a Black Friday special, includes only Kansas maps.

Ask your friend if he also gets satellite internet on his Nuvi.

From what I've seen all Garmin units that are currently for sale in the US contain at least maps for the continental US.

I have not heard of any special units for sale which would just have a map for one state.

This would not be very functional. Say you lived in Kansas City, Kansas and often went to Kansas City, MO just over the bridge. Then units that they sold in Kansas would not work a few miles away.

It also seems like it would be a pain for Garmin to put on seperate state maps for units sold through WalMart depending what state they're going to be sold in.

I find the whole thing hard to believe, but life is full of surprises.

I just wanted to make sure, but I think he has regional maps. I will be working with him to make sure everything is ok, but I didn't want to sound like a fool if it really was the case since I'm supposed to be the "family" expert...

Daniel

Don't ya' love being the appointed guru or tech support family member! When my mother-in-law calls, I cringe!

Most of the time it is fine. It is always better when you are face to face. Part of my paying job is tech support. We provide assistance 24/7 to hospitals and nursing homes. It is amazing the number of people that can't find the power button on the computer at 2 AM.

Daniel

All newer garmins come with the continental US maps. You can see this for yourselves on the garmin website as it is listed in the models specs. section under description.

Could it be that you only get what WalMart pays for?
j/k

I was afraid that they might have pulled that stunt, but we would have heard loud screams the saturday after black friday I would have thought.

Daniel

I have a couple older Garmin's that could only load zones (a couple of states) due to limited memory. using MapSource you would select map areas that fit into your memory cards memory capacity (the largest memory cards were only 128 mb).

The newer street pilots and Nuvis have county based maps, not aware of limited maps any longer.

I had a Street pilot III which came with Garmin's 128 meg proprietary card. You could load maps for maybe five or six states, but it also had the basemap for the whole United states that had the interstates and major highways. Mine worked anywhere in the US but just wouldn't show me the city streets in an area I didn't have the maps loaded for. When we took a trip from Wisconsin to Spokane, then from there to Tulsa and back to Wisconsin, I had to take my laptop and reload the maps for the rest of the trip when we left Spokane. So you guys don't have it too bad with the units you have today. By the way, at that time that was about a $600.00 GPS.

The Streetpilot 2610 was the same way. I still have mine. Still deciding whether to use it as a wheel chock or get rid of it.

I have a 2610 also. I thought that was one of the best GPSrs Garmin ever made. It had all kinds of bells and whistles, more features then many of the present Nuvi models. With a 2 gig card you could load all of the maps for the US and Canada and it was also motorcycle friendly. The only thing my 2820 has over it is bluetooth and the ability to load POIs

In addition to the GPS model, it'd be nice to hear from the friend if the GPS doesn't start up, doesn't get a satellite lock, or if it shows a blank map, or ...?

Very odd.

What I am thinking is that he is not able to find addresses in any other state (not changing from kansas) - but haven't gotten a straight answer yet. He is supposed be coming into town later this week and then we can straighten it out. His co-worker is the one that told him that walmart was selling state specific garmins across the US on their clearance racks...

Daniel

I bet he's missing the "change state" button when searching for an address. It always defaults to the last state that you used and there's a separate button to change states.

Then there is the limit of 50 displayed POI's, which might give the impression that it will only find POI's in your area.

I think that a state-specific version would have been a nightmare for the WalMart warehouse to keep track of when they shipped units to the stores. They would have had 50 different stock ID's to keep track of. Not to mention the hassle of estimating and ordering how many each state would sell.

[Walmart to supplier] And I'll order 2 for Hawaii. No, make that 3...we're having a sale.

Hi,

I can't speak for your friends GPS but it may be possible that when you have a subset of all the maps loaded, you get to enable/disable specific regions/segments. Perhaps some states are de-selected from view? I can do that on a 2610 via the the Map Info Screen and was thinking that it might also be an undocumented Nuvi option when only a subset of maps are loaded (like the lower 48). It can't hurt to check.

It's hard to imagine that any reseller would/could possibly sell a state specific product.

Good luck!

[Ohio WalMart Store to warehouse] Can you send me a dozen more Nuvis for Ohio?

[Warehouse] We're all out of Ohio, but we're having a special on Nevada for 50% off.

[Ohio WalMart Store to warehouse] Cool, send me a dozen Nevada units.

I used to have a c330 which came with both Canada and the US. When I upgraded it didn't have enough memory so I had to choose between Canada and Lower 48. Then I learned how to put Canada on a SD card and that worked. Then I got a 200 and took the upgrade and all I got was the Lower 48 no Canada. State by state I don't think so.

I bought a Streetpilot c330 last year. My dad received a Nuvi 200 for Christmas this year. I have a couple of questions.
Can I loaded POI files on the Nuvi with the same program as the C330?
What other differences are there. I have already found one feature on the Nuvi that I have often wished for: touch the vehicle icon and tells you where you are!

agg9900: How did you put Canada on a SD card?

my Nuvi 200 has all 48 state maps.