Garmin question

They don't anymore due to an alleged lawsuit.

What is the reason for the lawsuit?

Infringement on displaying the upcoming street names. However, it seems to be hard to find any court docs on the 'net to verify this.

It's a big 'Hmmm' for now.

The 265WT seems to only provide next exit/intersection when I'm on an interstate highway. Once off the highway, it reverts to telling you which road I'm currently on.

That's another feature I miss from my SPIII.

My Nuvi is a 255WT. Like HEBurk's Nuvi 265WT, it tells you what street your driving on in the top banner. It will however show you the side street names on the map. I have my resolution set quite close. By the way that so-called law suit sounds pretty phony.

Look like thats the only way i will get this option back. Its a darn shame as this was so helpful

...this should be a user-configurable option. Some users would prefer to see the next upcoming cross street (myself) while others would prefer to see the name of the street they are on. I have heard this request split pretty much 50/50 ever since it was changed in the xx5 series and newer units.

when I got my 765T, my first GPS, I had no point of comparison, and therefore didn't miss a feature I was unaware of.

but after reading several posts by DN and others, including his excellent original review of that model, I would have to agree that having it be a configurable option, would be very handy.

that seems ridiculous. how could it possibly be an infringement on displaying the upcoming street names?

United States Patent #5557524

The invention creates a map plot as the vehicle and/or non-vehicular carrier moves, by plotting the precise point-by-point position, such as, once per second, in a continuous fashion by user selectable route terminology, or by automatically selected route terminology according to its approximate latitude/longitude location in reference to the current precise latitude/longitude position data. User entry of the road type, river, trail, or other route as travel proceeds, automatically introduces the corresponding map symbology from one precise location point to the next precise location point. This invention provides pertinent information for the map plot including, but not limited to, street names, river names, beacon locations, locality names, point-of-interest names which are automatically searched out of a data file according to whether their approximate latitude/longitude location is within the user selectable range from the current precise latitude/longitude position. The present invention does not require a pre-stored map, however such a map can be provided as an overlay on the map being created, as a travel aid.

The invention provides the algorithms for computing the user information data from the basic precise current position and altitude data precise current GPS three dimensional velocity data.

The foregoing has outlined rather broadly the more pertinent and important features of the present invention in order that the detailed description of the invention that follows may be better understood so that the present contribution to the art may be more fully appreciated. Additional features of the invention will be described hereinafter which form the subject of the claims of the invention. It should be appreciated by those skilled in the art that the conception and the disclosed specific embodiment may be readily utilized as a basis for modifying or designing other structures and methods for carrying out the same purposes of the present invention. It should also be realized by those skilled in the art that such equivalent constructions and methods do not depart from the spirit and scope of the invention as set forth in the appended claims.
infringement

that sucks. I would have liked to have that feature...

Am I missing something here? My unit shows at least 3 blocks ahead depending how large the blocks are. It shows me the cross street names. Regular map and also traffic map.

I think this feature was first introduced/invented
with the Magellan GPS used by the Hertz NeverLost
in-vehicle navigation systems back in the early 1990's.

I've noticed with my 755t that the level to which I'm zoomed into changes the amount of detail displayed.

I think this is the same topic as discussed in:
www.poi-factory.com/node/27501

What you're missing is that past units (namely non-xx5 units) previously showed the next upcoming cross street name in the green info bar at the top of the map screen when NOT navigating a route. The green info bar now shows the street you are currently on instead.