Strange Mapping

 

Anyone want to see something strange with the New NA 2014.2 maps, just type in "Kure" without the "" in the search window on the unit itself and look at the results. I think it's time for Garmin to look elsewhere for maps. Tell me what you think after doing this little experiment.

Huh?

Which search window?

What model are you using?

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raycock wrote:

Anyone want to see something strange with the New NA 2014.2 maps, just type in "Kure" without the "" in the search window on the unit itself and look at the results. I think it's time for Garmin to look elsewhere for maps. Tell me what you think after doing this little experiment.

I think the results were the only 3 places with the word KURE in them. In my location that's:

Kurea Food Deli
Kuresman Insurance
Kure Beach, NC

What's strange about that?

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Interesting

raycock wrote:

Anyone want to see something strange with the New NA 2014.2 maps, just type in "Kure" without the "" in the search window on the unit itself and look at the results. I think it's time for Garmin to look elsewhere for maps. Tell me what you think after doing this little experiment.

Guessing you mean in the "where to" search. First I got Kure Beach, NC... then KURE--PM64 came up. Kure is the name for an airport in the Midway Islands (http://www.airports-worldwide.com/midway_islands/kure_midway...). Interesting that it comes up as a search result - might be some data sharing from the aviaiton division.

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Garmin Drive Smart 61 NA LMT-S

Kure

It was showing Russia, Ukraine, Greece, etc. It has to be the maps. Just thoughs that if ever I need to find out how many miles it is drive from US to Russia and how to get around there when I downloaded North America maps (Only) is beyond me. I was searching near Warsaw, NC for Kure and found the following "Kure,JPN, Kure,TUR, Kure,Xinjiang Uygur,(which is 6901 miles away) Kure Beach,NC. Kure UKR, Kure,PNG (which is 8963 miles away) Kureysk,RUS (which is 5894 miles away and Kureyskiy,Rudnik, RUS which is 5440 miles away. Now it may not seem strange to you but when I've got Russia, Greece, Ukraine coming on my GPS when I only have North America maps loaded on my gps but it is to me.

Happens

Happens all the time when searching for Cities. The foreign cities may well be listed because they are in the Basemap data that is on every Nuvi no matter what City Navigator maps your using.

I'm on the west coast and get Kure JPN, TUR, Xinjiang Uygur, before Kure, NC. all of the foreign cities are 8000 to 9700KM farther away from me than NC is.

My question is why do these not list in distance from your current location when every other listing (Saved Places, POIs, etc.) do?

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Nuvi 350, 760, 1695LM, 3790LMT, 2460LMT, 3597LMTHD, DriveLuxe 50LMTHD, DriveSmart 61, Garmin Drive 52, Garmin Backup Camera 40 and TomTom XXL540s.

I think they are in the base map

You got me curious. My map is 2011.30 and my search brought up Kure JPN, TUR, Xinjiang Uygur before NC and I live in Upstate NY.

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Nuvi 2460LMT.

Kure

I have not tried it and won't either, but I assume that would happen if you do not first select the state or province you are searching in!

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Nuvi 2797LMT, DriveSmart 50 LMT-HD, Using Windows 10. DashCam A108C with GPS.

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Doing a Where To - Cities search you don't get an opportunity to enter a state or province. Only Enter City

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Nuvi 350, 760, 1695LM, 3790LMT, 2460LMT, 3597LMTHD, DriveLuxe 50LMTHD, DriveSmart 61, Garmin Drive 52, Garmin Backup Camera 40 and TomTom XXL540s.

Cities

raycock wrote:

Anyone want to see something strange with the New NA 2014.2 maps, just type in "Kure" without the "" in the search window on the unit itself and look at the results. I think it's time for Garmin to look elsewhere for maps. Tell me what you think after doing this little experiment.

When I click Cities it will show you the closest to where you are.

When I do a search for a city I get all cities in any state or country with that name. And they are not in any order.

Can't tell you if this happened before the new update or if it always was this way.

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Mary, Nuvi 2450, Garmin Viago, Honda Navigation, Nuvi 750 (gave to son)

Has

Has always been that way. smile

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Nuvi 350, 760, 1695LM, 3790LMT, 2460LMT, 3597LMTHD, DriveLuxe 50LMTHD, DriveSmart 61, Garmin Drive 52, Garmin Backup Camera 40 and TomTom XXL540s.

For me too

t923347 wrote:

Has always been that way. smile

For me too

Not easy to pronounce

KUREyskiy Rudnik, RUS

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