2015.40

Not sure about "arrogance," but I suspect when HERE (for the last time, Garmin does not make maps. They get the maps from HERE. It is their data, not Garmin's) allows user editing of maps of the USA, that accuracy will be at an all-time high. I wish I knew when that was though...they've been piloting other parts of the world for easily over a year or so.

Also: Page 8! That's a record for me

I just need reminding...
Tell me again how removing "Up to Four" from Lifetime map update's wording will allow Garmin to increase map updates above the Previously Promised "Up to Four?

Now that we have page 8 - onward to page 9 we go...and beyond.

Good thing Garmin doesn't handle anything important like air traffic control, NORAD or NASA...or banks, automobile and railroad software programs.

But...I understand Garmin has been hired to handle the IRS, the Veterans Administration and the State Department. And, they are in talks with OPEC to handle crude oil production.

Garmin = Excellence in programming - that any 1st year programmer could do better!

Not sure what map I am using, probably the map prior to 2015.30 (2015.20 maybe or even .10). I don't update every time, as you can probably tell. I do try to update at least 2/yr.

You would be well advised to update every time new map comes out. Garmin assumes one no longer has the device in question and disallows updates after considerable inactivity. I have known this to occur. Just a word of caution.

I would update at least once a year. If you go over 2 years, Garmin will assume the device is no longer active and can terminate the Lifetime Maps for that device.

You make a good point about Garmin's association with HERE. HERE is owned by Nokia, a Finnish based telecommunications giant whose phones have pretty much gone the way of the dodo in North America. They bought out NAVTEQ which was based in Chicago in 2007. Obviously there is less NA concentration and spread out more globally.

Navteq bought Nokia's mapping operations IIRC.

Check Wikipedia

Garmin is using multiple G Express releases to entertain us while we wait.

4.0.8.0 now being installed, maybe we will have maps when we get to 4.1

Come on page 9

Garmin's Software Development Office

http://i.imgur.com/H4VkocF.gif

LOL!!

Maybe it's only going to happen twice this year?

Maybe once at this rate

It's not funny - it's an actual video taken at Garmin!

http://i.imgur.com/H4VkocF.gif

i haven't checked back here for a couple weeks but thought for sure I'd now find that the update was now available. Guess I'll go back into hibernation.

Of waiting and went to the gas station to buy a paper map .. They were all sold out.. It sucks being a map junkie!

It has now been 127 days since the last map update was released. This beats the longest map update gap (113 Days) in the past 6 years by 2 weeks. And the wait continues...

We are now on-schedule to receive [just] 3 map updates per year - if future gaps are about the same number of days.

I think it is time for Garmin to make an announcement about their map updates. It is my view that Garmin owes their customers (that have come to expect 4 map updates per year - one map update every ~90 days) an honest and transparent explanation about why the 2015.40 map update is being delayed. I cannot imagine what would prevent Garmin from making such an explanation.

Well there certainly can be technical issues either on Garmin's end or Here. Remember the Europe maps were late as well. If Garmin are going to 3 map updates a year then I agree they should probably tell their users BUT I come from the days of one update a year, that I had to pay for, to basically a free update every 3/4 months so explanation or not, I'm a happy Garmin camper.

To be honest, I find this thread every 3 months more aggravating than waiting a few extra weeks for a map update that installs and works correctly when downloaded and installed.

So Page 9, 10, 11 ????

Interesting that in the last few years there has been at least one update for most years that was released later than expected. In 2010: 2011.10 was released on Apr 21st while 2012.10 wasn't released until May 18 2011. In 2012: 2013.10 was released on May 9th while 2014.10 wasn't released until June 12 2013. So the fact that 2015.40 was expected in February and isn't released by mid March maybe unexpected and the wait a little longer than normal, it's not that unusual.

Bump To Page 8½

It's looking like this is not going to happen ...

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it's the dog's fault

This is a little off topic, but since this whole thread is mostly silliness I guess it is OK to put it here.

I hadn't noticed this before, but in myMaps of my.garmin.com, my current installed map is listed as "City Navigator North America NT 2015.30 - Map+3D+HT+PA+P, July 14".

July 14? The map was released in Nov. So is July a reference to the Here map version?

To get to at least page 13 befoe we start another thread

I give up waiting.

Maybe they plan to make 2016.10 actually be released in 2016 by dragging out the release dates.

Would have been easier to release 2015.50, 2015.60 and 2015.70.

Good to know. Thanks, I'm still using a 1390T.

made me do it.

What's a map update?

Garmin's Software Development Office is in Russia? (Or Macedonia)

Well, that 'splains a lot!

+1 for page 9

at the number of posts an upcoming map update creates.

until a new thread is started stating the new map update is available.

I wish that Tnpapa could had wait 6 more months before starting talking about the 2015.40 update.

Here we go again....

Even my old Navigon was better with map updates than this, and they'd make you wait too sometimes. They always had 4 out a year though.

Still waiting, maybe this week.

Don't hold your breath.

You'll probably turn blue and pass out.

I keep checking POI every week for Map Update Info. One of the many great benefits of POI is getting help with GPS topics. Thanks to all POI members.

On which version of Garmin Express will be current when the new maps are released?

5.0.9

Is 5.0.9 the version or month that that version comes out?

Hey! I reverse engineered the pinout of a usb cable for powering a Nuvi faster than that !

It depends. Are you using our method of month followed by day or the European notation of day followed by month?

is released before I am too old to drive.

A "do it yourself mode" will be included in the next release. This means road building and repair projects for us to do which have been neglected for so long. Might be fun.

is released while I can still afford to drive.

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it's the dog's fault

Don't know what I'll do if it doesn't come out this week.

Maybe go to page 9?