CN Europe Map Release Date History

 

Here is another project you can waste your time on while you are waiting for the CN NA 2016.10 map, and sharpen your Googling skills at the same time. idea grin Isn't worthless trivia wonderful?

I started this by searching through old forum posts (in this and other forums) to see if I could compile a list of Europe map release dates similar to what jgermann has done for the North America maps. Maybe if we can complete the list, John will add a Europe section to his Map Release Date FAQ.

Here is what I have so far. If you can find any of the missing pieces, post them here and I will add them to the list.

City Navigator Europe Map Release Date History
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2010.10 - Apr 14, 2009
2010.20 - Oct 21, 2009
2010.30 - Jan 22, 2010
2010.31 - Feb 11, 2010 (AKA 2010.30c)
2011.10 - Apr 21, 2010
2011.20 - Aug 19, 2010
2011.30 - Nov 11, 2010
2011.40 - Feb 21, 2011
2012.10 - May 2, 2011
2012.20 - Jul 20, 2011
2012.30 - Nov 1, 2011
2012.40 - Feb 8, 2012
2013.10 - May 2, 2012
2013.20 - Aug 16, 2012
2013.30 - Oct 24, 2012
2013.40 - Feb 27, 2013 (withdrawn)
2013.41 - Apr 16, 2013
2014.10 - Jul 2, 2013
2014.20 - Aug 28, 2013
2014.30 - Oct 23, 2013
2014.40 - Jan 30, 2014
2015.10 - May 28, 2014
2015.20 - Aug 20, 2014
2015.30 - Oct 15, 2014
2015.40 - Mar 11, 2015
2016.10 - May 19, 2015

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Alan - Android Auto, DriveLuxe 51LMT-S, DriveLuxe 50LMTHD, Nuvi 3597LMTHD, Oregon 550T, Nuvi 855, Nuvi 755T, Lowrance Endura Sierra, Bosch Nyon

Good Job Alan

Very nice list,thank you for you efforts. However since the majority of our members are from North America it may prove difficult to acquire the missing map data. It's too bad Garmin doesn't offer the information on map date releases.

At least we know release dates from 2013.10 to present.

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Added to FAQ

Information added

Name changed to
Release Dates for Garmin Maps

Thanks John.

I have found and added a few more since your post. Thanks for working out the day of week and days between updates.

I do wonder about the entry for "2014.30 - Nov 22, 2013 (Fri)". Seems odd that Garmin would release it on a Friday. I based my research on forum posts I could find that first mention the update being available, so there could be errors. We can make revisions if better sources of information are found.

Edit: found a correction in gpspassion.com for the above entry. It should be "2014.30 - Oct 23, 2013". I didn't look up day of week.

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Alan - Android Auto, DriveLuxe 51LMT-S, DriveLuxe 50LMTHD, Nuvi 3597LMTHD, Oregon 550T, Nuvi 855, Nuvi 755T, Lowrance Endura Sierra, Bosch Nyon

More updates.

I have filled in the remaining missing pieces and changed the 2010 map version release dates from what I originally listed. What I have learned from reading old forums is that the 2010.20 and 2010.30 Europe map updates were very late compared to the NA maps. Then the 2010.30 map had serious errors. Garmin released at least 3 subsequent fixes named 2010.30A, 2010.30B and 2010.30C which took up until late Feb or early Mar. So from what I can tell, there was no 2014.40 Europe map version. This still needs some more research to know for sure what was going on with the Europe 2010 maps.

There may also be errors in some of the other dates since they are based on forum posts, but I suspect they are only off by a day or two.

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Alan - Android Auto, DriveLuxe 51LMT-S, DriveLuxe 50LMTHD, Nuvi 3597LMTHD, Oregon 550T, Nuvi 855, Nuvi 755T, Lowrance Endura Sierra, Bosch Nyon

One minor change.

I changed the 2011.40 date from Sunday Feb 20 2011 to Monday Feb 21 2011. A Sunday release seemed unlikely. The Feb 21 date is based on this thread from GPS Review: http://forums.gpsreview.net/discussion/comment/150895/#Comme... and confirmed by this one from gpspassion: http://www.gpspassion.com/forumsen/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=139881.

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Alan - Android Auto, DriveLuxe 51LMT-S, DriveLuxe 50LMTHD, Nuvi 3597LMTHD, Oregon 550T, Nuvi 855, Nuvi 755T, Lowrance Endura Sierra, Bosch Nyon

Changed

Thanks Alan

2010.31

I added version 2010.31, also known as 2010.30c based on this thread in the Garmin software forum: https://forums.garmin.com/showthread.php?5908-CNNT-Europe-20...

I also removed the entry for 2010.40 as it is apparent from several sources that this version was never released. For Europe maps Garmin went strait from 2010.31 to 2011.10.

@jgermann ... This is now complete with the best information I can find. If others want to post corrections, we can make changes, but for me, I am done with the project grin

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Alan - Android Auto, DriveLuxe 51LMT-S, DriveLuxe 50LMTHD, Nuvi 3597LMTHD, Oregon 550T, Nuvi 855, Nuvi 755T, Lowrance Endura Sierra, Bosch Nyon

Ok

updated

CN Europe 2016.20

Even though the manifests for 2016.20 NA and Europe were published on the same day, CN NA 2016.20 was released today (10/14/15) but so far no evidence that the same is true for CN Europe. If anyone finds evidence of the release of the Europe map, this would be a good place to post it to alert John so he can update the map history FAQ.

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Alan - Android Auto, DriveLuxe 51LMT-S, DriveLuxe 50LMTHD, Nuvi 3597LMTHD, Oregon 550T, Nuvi 855, Nuvi 755T, Lowrance Endura Sierra, Bosch Nyon

CN Europe 2016.20 has been released.

according to our friend sussamb over on the GPS Review forum.

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Alan - Android Auto, DriveLuxe 51LMT-S, DriveLuxe 50LMTHD, Nuvi 3597LMTHD, Oregon 550T, Nuvi 855, Nuvi 755T, Lowrance Endura Sierra, Bosch Nyon

FAQ updated

Thanks Alan for the alert.

2016.30 manifest.

Our UK friend sussamb is reportng over on the GPS Review forum that the CN Europe 2016.30 map manifest has already been published. Can't believe tho that the map itself will be released anytime soon, since the 2016.20 map just came out a few weeks ago ... several weeks later than the NA map this time.

susamb also reports that there is a reference to "Experimental gmap" in the manifest that he has never seen before. It is anyone's guess as to what that means.

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Alan - Android Auto, DriveLuxe 51LMT-S, DriveLuxe 50LMTHD, Nuvi 3597LMTHD, Oregon 550T, Nuvi 855, Nuvi 755T, Lowrance Endura Sierra, Bosch Nyon