Garmin Viago App, lifetime maps and Traffic Live on Sale for 1/2 price through July 13th

Are you sur it was lifetime? I did not see that.

This answer from Garmin was posted in another thread by member charlesd45 who had contacted Garmin about a couple of things including maps:

"This is the answer I received from Garmin on installing custom pois and map updates.

Thank you for contacting Garmin International.

Adding customer POIs are currently not a Garmin supported feature.

All mapping comes with lifetime updates, including the streaming mapping. We are releasing at least one update per year, if not the 4 yearly updates available to our PND devices.

With Best Regards,

Britton

Customer Care - Mobile Team"

Thanks, I read that but I did not read and comprehend.

Glad to know about the Lifetime maps.

Just wondering out loud. The Lifetime maps are mostly locked to the phone. People do change phone nowadays more frequently than dedicated GPS units.

That is true, the maps are locked to the phone or tablet the same as they are on a Garmin GPS. The good thing is that they are pretty inexpensive to add to another device later on. I paid less than 10 bucks now on special but the full price at 20 bucks is still reasonable.

I have to say that so far I have been very impressed with the app and the screen is very clear, detailed and easy to see. What surprised me instead of just taking me to the location in front of the shopping area it actually guided me on the interior service drives and through the parking lot to the entrance to the store.

This is a link to a screen grab of the route through the parking lot to the store:

http://home.comcast.net/~rjrsw2012/pwpimages/Garmin%20app%20...

All operations are lightning fast on my Samsung Note 8.0 running Android Kit Kat 4.4.2

This is better in a parking lot than my Nuvi 2450.

So NOW I am reading what my unit says about my Maps to Go.
It helps if you read

"Your app will also always be up-to-date with Maps to Go and its regular map updates, as well as giving you more useful additional functions to choose from."

Does look like Lifetime Maps. Also, I wonder what the "useful additional functions to choose from" is??

Most likely the App is equipped with door to door addressing http://www.poi-factory.com/node/42527 .

I didn't mention this earlier but the new app is compatible with Garmin HUD. I have a HUD in my Vette that displays the factory Nav info on the windshield and it is very handy when in severe freeway traffic like you find in LA or Phoenix to have the nav info displayed in the windshield.

Quote from their blog:

"Garmin víago is compatible with Garmin HUD, an innovative new way of viewing navigation information in the car. HUD projects crisp and bright directions onto a transparent film on the windshield or an attached reflector lens. By providing comprehensive road guidance at a glance and right within the driver’s line of sight, HUD can help increase safety and reduce driver distraction. Garmin also offers a variety of mounts to safely secure the smartphone in the car while navigating."

Has anyone got multiple Android devices and uses the same gmail/google account? I have this and my paid apps appear on both my phone and tablet on a single purchase. Sometimes I have the phone with me, but on longer trips I am taking the tablet more frequently and using it for my GPS.

Just wondering it the APP follows the Android standards of one purchase per account required versus multiple purchases on the same account.

Anyone?

Update -- I see some are saying the map is locked to the device, which sucks and will keep me from purchasing for each member of the family. All of us use a min of two Android devices and being limited to locking is not anything I am interested in. Yes locked to an account, one use at a time, but one device and gone? Nope...PASS

I have Garmin Viago with Maps to Go and Sound & Buildings purchased and installed on my Nexus 7.
I also have a smartphone. I though it was worth the $.99 to see if I have to buy it again for my phone.

I went to Play.google as always and it said Installed and said it was comparable with all my devices.

I clicked install and it opened my smartphone link and I said install and it installed the Garmin Viago to my smart phone as all the apps I buy have done.

There was no extra cost to put it on my second unit.
They are both registered with Google to me.

So I opened Garmin Viago on my smartphone and went to Downloads and there was everything that I paid for.

I am in the process of downloading the Maps to go now. No extra charge.

Very good news...

I will work on it more tomorrow but...
I hooked my Nexus 7 up to my computer, opened POI Loader. It recognized my Nexus 7 as Internal storage and I loaded my POIs.
Can see some of them on my map as blue dots and when I select them they are my food places, I have food selected to show in the menu, as I put FW and Port A in front of my food places to know what town they are in.

Will work on it more tomorrow to see just what I did to get them in.
I have tried a lot and am not sure just what worked.
They do NOT show up in any of my menus on the Viago. I am thinking if I name them the same as the menu maybe they will show there.
Will follow up when I know more.

Maybe someone else can try POI Loader

I have 1 purchase and downloaded to 2 devices. 1 LG Lucid 2 smartphone, 1 Lenovo 9.5" tab.
I use only 1 Google account for both.

I have 1 purchase and downloaded to 2 devices. 1 LG Lucid 2 smartphone, 1 Lenovo 9.5" tab.
I use only 1 Google account for both.

PS.they both loaded to sdcard1 (external sdcard thus saving my internal sdcard for other things.

Mary

Connected my Smart phone to coomptuer. Ran Poi Loader and selected to install to the SD card on the phone since that is where the files are.Message all pois were loaded successfully . Went back to phone connected to the computer.Clicked on SD card,now see a new folder called Garmin and clicked on it.POI Folder was inside that .Inside that was MY Pois.gpi file.Still looking for the pois on the gps.

Edit.Looks like a no go.The files do load using Poi Loader but do not show up any where that I can see on the GPS.Back to the drawing board.

Is the POI folder inside the Garmin folder that was already on your phone? I had to move my POI folder to the Garmin folder that has the maps in it.
You also have to check food to see food and then check Everyday Life to see lodging but I don't know what to check for others.

http://www.poi-factory.com/node/42927
I started another post just for working on POIs on Viago. Be sure and read my second post because not all of the first one is correct.

I will move over to the other link. The POI folder in the correct location. What I did was load everything that is set up for my Nuvi 2597. Plan to try single files and load one at a time.

I will have to try this one out. I am currently using co-pilot on my Galaxy Note 3

--Wow!!! --Incredible price!!!

I have the iphone 4S and plan to upgrade to a iPhone 6 in September if they have the iphone 6 unlocked one. I will not do any more contracts. Anyways on to my question.

Under Shop / Maps / Maps To GO / North America - Price $9.99

With this purchase do I get all the items you mentioned. Someone I thought said they got Traffic Live for a total price of $9.99 with the map purchase. I guess I don't see this option on the app it self.

"I got everything I wanted including photo real junction view and panorama terrain view that both were no cost options with the map download option."

Thanks for the help!

Traffic is extra.Notice near bottom about vehicle icons and maps themes for ios.

In-app purchases allow users to customize the viago app and use only the features they want. Upgrades to the app include:

Maps to Go - Download desired map regions to be stored locally on device. This feature allows users to navigate roads without using data. Ideal for spotty reception areas, roaming, or limited data plans.
Traffic Live - Real-time traffic information will re-route when encountering delays like accidents and construction.
Mobile Alert Live - Report and receive alerts for speed cameras. Requires Maps to Go and not permitted or available in all countries.
Safety Kit - Receive school zone warnings, speed warnings, alternate route suggestions and active land guidance. Requires Maps to Go.
Sound and Buildings - Spoken street names (text to speech) and 3D buildings views while you are navigating.
Garmin Real Directions - Receive naturally spoken directions like "turn left after the bridge." Requires Maps to Go and only available for Europe, North America, and Australia.
Panorama 3D View - View 3D landscapes like mountains and valleys. Requires Maps to Go and WiFi connection suggested while downloading.
Urban Guidance - Available for iOS only. Integrate public transportation like bus, train, or ferry into pedestrian navigation. Receive step by step instructions for using public transit. Information and availability can be found at: http://static.garmincdn.com/shared/emea/custom/viago/UrbanGu...
Free Bonus Pack - Available for iOS only. Add different vehicle icons and maps themes by signing up for new product announcements.
To access in-app purchases:

Open Viago application and select the blue triangle icon in the upper left corner.
Select "Shop."
Select desired in-app purchase to read description and view cost.

I have CoPilot and Garmin Viago on my Nexus 7.
I'm not sure what it is, maybe just because I am so used to Garmin, but I like the Viago best, except in CoPilot you can add Cameras and POIs.

Glad to hear that it is an account based purchase, not a device like some one above believed.

Will definitely give it a go.

I might substitute Viago for my co pilot, the only problem is in Viago, you have to pay another $9.99 for every addition to the maps.

The Lifetime map download, traffic live and the Viago app are on sale for 1/2 price through July 13th.

BZZZZZZZT!! Raise your hand if this is a Dealbreaker for you too. /lol

I got it knowing that Custom POIs were not there.

Not being able to add custom POIs is definitely disappointing.

Since you can add poi's to Co pilot, would you say that co pilot is a better sat nav gps than Viago? Has anyone tried them both and have a feel as to with one is better?

I have both, plus Navigon and TomTom. Viago is the one I use.

I like the Viago. Not sure why, I think it is because I am so used to Garmin. I like the junction view on Viago. Haven't used Copilot in a while and don't remember if it has junction view.

Now that the $9.99 is ending I am trying to decide if I need any of the other options.
I have
Maps to Go
Buildings and Voice

Do any of you have others that you think are great and I might need?

what does it do?

The only one that you do not have that it on sale is traffic live for 1/2 price through July 13th, everything else is the normal price and not on sale at this time.

I thought I would wait for future specials before adding any more. I have the app and lifetime maps that were on sale for 1/2 price plus the real directions with spoken street names that was not on sale. So far I have spent less than $21 total.

Items on sale thought this coming Sunday are The lifetime map download, traffic live and the app itself everything else is at the normal full price.

See http://www.poi-factory.com/node/42846

and do a search for Viago for other threads on this product.

Do you need data on for traffic live?

Found out a couple of new features that I was not aware of today.

First I can change the vehicle that is displayed and the ones that have the transparent backgrounds in them are transparent and work the same as on my 3790LMT.

Second that when navigating today I found that when my note 8 tablet is in portrait mode the Junction view displays as a full screen photo real JCV but when in landscape orientation I get the split screen with the map on the left and the photo real junction view on the right the same as my 3790LMT.

The split screen JV is good news. In my initial test of Viago last weekend, I used portrait mode and was disappointed with the full screen view. Landscape mode is not very convenient for the Note 8 with my car dashboard layout, but I will do some experimenting to see if there is a way of mounting it that will work.

How did you change the car?

On trip today no School Zones. Went through a zone that the yellow flashes all year because of day care by the schools and no alert.

Bought Safety but can find nothing on School zones.

I copied the new vehicle .srf file that I wanted to use to the vehicle subdirectory on my tablet.

Once there I deleted the last character on the original vehicle file that was there to disable it and then renamed the new downloaded file to "rr_arrow.srf" to match the original vehicle file name.

When I started the app the new vehicle was there and working including the transparent background.

At this point there is no menu item to select a vehicle from the directory and have to do it like this for now.

Worked like a charm.Took the blue car vehicle used on my 2597 and renamed it rr_arrow.srf. Had tried before just replacing with another vehicle and that was a no go.

Will look for another car to replace the arrow. Thanks

Added traffic life. Tried it Friday for a trip from South Bay San Francisco to Livermore,~1hr trip.

The traffic information turned out to be quite accurate.

That would have been a great feature, hopefully Garmin will consider adding that feature at sometime in the distant future

Seems like Garmin has a huge way to go on ViaGo...hopefully they will LISTEN and LEARN...OOPs forgot who we were discussing!

I actually find that the app works great and is very fast at rerouting and searching for destinations with no Wi-Fi connection needed.

A couple of features that would be nice to add like custom POI capability and the ability to change vehicles in a menu would be nice additions. Those items would be nice if they add them but by no means are a deal breaker.

I'm very glad that I grabbed the app and the lifetime maps while they were on special for 1/2 price and so far the app works better than any other navigation app that I have tried prior to Viago.

All the options are still $9.99 when you go to buy on your app.

I am quite happy with Viago.

Found a couple of undocumented niceties:

1. It has active lane guidance, same as Nuvi 3597. I found it quite useful. You do not need to have the junction-views to have the active lane guidance.

2. You can enter the address in a single line with local search. This is similar to what you can do in the 2012 and newer models such as 2595, 3597 and in Google search. I found this more convenient than having to enter street #, street, city, etc in separate line with the regular address search.

In an previous post, I indicated that the Traffic Live is quite accurate. You do need to have data plan and be receiving cell signal for it to work. I found it uses very small amount of data, probably <~MB for a one-hour drive that I tested. Don't hold me to the exact amount though.

I am not sure about the area where the traffic is available either. Tested only in the SF Bay area.

double post. Sorry.