The 2014.40 map update has been uploaded to Garmin's servers

I think I may be giving up on Mexico this time with my 660. I doubt I'll ever travel there anyways.

I'll start the next page
Edit: Gary beat me to it.

Blind luck.

Whenever it comes, we all know Garmin will have screwed it up in one way or another.

Garmin's have a good interface and lousy maps. I laugh every time I head to Fargo ND and try and use the Garmin to get to the Costco store. A dead end road a few miles past the store is the start according to Garmin...lol

Google shows the store in the middle of a field with nothing else around. Not even Cosco.

JanJ

I have a nuvi 660, and I've been using an 8GB SD card for at least 2 years, with no limitations. The 660 will definitely read a card bigger then 2GB. I know Garmin says they will only read up to a 4GB card, but they actually will read up to an 8GB card. Make sure you have all the firmware updates installed and you should be good to go. An 8GB card is over kill but it was cheap enough so that's why I decided to give it a try. It works.

take care

Issue isn't the card size... It's a Map File Size Limitation...

I'm hoping this time around they recognize that Hawaii and Alaska have become states!

I just checked. Like I thought is was time...maybe next week?

here we go again...lovely.

Just checking to see how many pages we are up to before the release actually happens.

With the amount of road work in my area, I do not see any update in a few years anyway.

I wonder how much each map update cost Garmin. In other words, if Garmin changed to only 1, 2 or 3 updates each year - how much money would they save? The reason I ask the question (which I really do not expect anyone here to be able to answer) is - in my opinion, the quarterly updates have very little value.

They aren't recognized if you have the 48 state model.

Feb 20..

Hi muell9k,

So you're saying this would be a firmware limitation of the 660 to read a map larger then 2GB.
OK, I get what your saying. Thanks for clarifying that for me. I really don't have a need for all of North America, the lower 48 will do for me.

Thanks, Raven

The *European* CN 2014.4 maps have already been released and have been available since Jan 31.

Page three eh

Yeah...I thought to jump straight ahead to the last page myself. Can we place side bets how many pages there will be until the actual release?

Will this come with firmware update?

If that's the case, I'm going to have to figure out how to eliminate Mexico also... Hope someone posts good instructions (Grin!)

Lower 49.

The last map update was great. Used it extensively in the Cabo San Lucas area of Baja California. Hoping this update includes the new Illinois 70 MPH speed limit.

JanJ, if you are still using the cloning method with Garmin MapUpdater, it is identified in step 8 of the procedure:

Thank you alandb!

The Costco store in Fort Worth has no street in back. It's because they have such a large parking lot... The front is on a service road and if I route to go in the back it shows no road... Glad I know a road is there...

I will be quite curious to see how large this update is. I have been on an SD card the last three updates and have plenty of space. I still find it amusing that only a few years ago, a map update was around 800MB for just the map itself.

Has anyone ever thought of the reason that Garmin is releasing maps 4 times a year? My conclusion is to fix the many years that have piled up with mistakes and they need us to help fix their problems in a timely manner before the whole company implodes. Slick in making us think that they are doing this for us and not for them. Think about it, a road is put in place by mistake (like we have not all seen it) and if it takes a year to fix it, then it's probably forgotten. At least this way, they get fresh ideas on which roads needs fixing every 4 months. Makes sense to me. What about you?

well, thought it might be here, but guess not, maybe next week

I'm seeing a lot of comments in this thread blaming Garmin for map errors. Garmin really doesn't have anything to do with map data, its supplier Navteq (now HERE Maps) does.

My thought is money. They are charging large portions of the population for updates. Many people now have lifetime maps, but buying an update for an old model is a waste.

I think you and jonwrong need to take off your tinfoil beanies. First, Garmin isn't going to implode. Second, they get the map data from Navteq/Here. Third, while it may feel like it at times, we are not Garmin's beta testers regarding the map. Finally, all current units I believe include map updates so there is no need to purchase a map update unless owning an old device that did not include one.

http://www.poi-factory.com/node/28855

~Angela

I usually wait to download until a majority of other users report success!

Wait is over. 2014.40 is out.

Will try my upgraded internet connection today.

Is that a record?

It very well could be.

I'm going to wait for a few success stories before trying to update my old 660, just to see if the 2GB file size limit is hit.

Could be...

And we only got to page three

Downloaded 2014.40 today just because I couldn't resist. Total size of all files on Garmin nuvi 50LM after download shows to be 1,924,300,800 bytes.

For my 3760, GE is telling me the maps are 2.8GB. That's significantly higher than the previous maps, right?

See the link

http://www.poi-factory.com/node/42024#new

for the file size of the map and junction view files. It certainly is an increase.

including the juntion view, speech recognition, and other auxiliary files. The actual map file (gmapprom.img) is about 2.1 GB.

is the large JCV file part of the download or do we have to continue to get it separately?

Thanks!

I would like to know also.

As with earlier versions, I got the full JCV file with my 755T (over 796 MB), but my 855 got a puny 24 MB file even though I used the cloning method with a SD card that had plenty of room for the full file. So as before, I copied the large JCV from my 755 to the 855 and everything works fine.

So, those of us with 8x5 and 14xx nuvis will need to get the large JCV file separately.

thanks. I did the download last night and have just a very small JCV file now. I followed a link to the large JCV file but the link was dead. Has the large JCV file not been released yet?

Thanks