Garmin Map Region “Upgrade”

 

Can anyone else confirm if any of their units that aren’t supposed to have the full North America map set are having the full NA maps installed when installing the 2025.20 Maps? So far, I have full NA on my Nuvi 55LM (only supposed to be lower 49 states) and my Drive 52 M (only supposed to be US and Canada).

Yeah that did happen to me

Yeah that did happen to me too. Weird

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-Dewey

Good

That's good news for a lot of folks.

From the Garmin

From the Garmin website:
"Effective with the 2025.20 map release, devices purchased with a map subscription for a specific North America map region have been upgraded to the full North America map at no additional charge. The original maps that came with your device are no longer available to download as a smaller subset, as they are included with the full North America map."
https://support.garmin.com/en-US/?faq=68wodqUBkY7mu2l20K0qx8

Too bad, because of space limitation I used to only install the lower 49 states on my Nuvi 2589. My only option is full NA on a SD card.

Just do it

droopyNJ wrote:

From the Garmin website:
"Effective with the 2025.20 map release, devices purchased with a map subscription for a specific North America map region have been upgraded to the full North America map at no additional charge. The original maps that came with your device are no longer available to download as a smaller subset, as they are included with the full North America map."
https://support.garmin.com/en-US/?faq=68wodqUBkY7mu2l20K0qx8

Too bad, because of space limitation I used to only install the lower 49 states on my Nuvi 2589. My only option is full NA on a SD card.

A Sandisk 32 GB card is $13 at Best Buy.

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John from PA

Maybe

Maybe Garmin had all the 7-11s, etc. removed.

Do you see any differences?

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Metricman DriveSmart 76 Williamsburg, VA

Did it

John from PA wrote:

A Sandisk 32 GB card is $13 at Best Buy.

Just ordered 2 for $13 on Amazon. I was running out of space on my other Nuvi 2559 with both NA and EU maps.

Garmin Map Region “Upgrade”

I have a Garmin Nuvi 50 that my oldest son got out of a pile of stuff that a fellow student was discarding when he was attending "Hippie College". Until a few minutes ago, it has CN North America NT 2025.10 and listed 49 states. I did the update and it now shows:

CN North America NT 2025.10 ALL US

Thank you for the tip. I do appreciate it.

Buy elsewhere

droopyNJ wrote:
John from PA wrote:

A Sandisk 32 GB card is $13 at Best Buy.

Just ordered 2 for $13 on Amazon. I was running out of space on my other Nuvi 2559 with both NA and EU maps.

Amazon is one of the worst places to buy memory cards. There are many fake cards on Amazon, a few years ago Amazon even devoted a page to counterfeit cards.Just go to a Best Buy or similar, pay $2 extra and know what you are getting.

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John from PA

Samsung cards

John from PA wrote:
droopyNJ wrote:
John from PA wrote:

A Sandisk 32 GB card is $13 at Best Buy.

Just ordered 2 for $13 on Amazon. I was running out of space on my other Nuvi 2559 with both NA and EU maps.

Amazon is one of the worst places to buy memory cards. There are many fake cards on Amazon, a few years ago Amazon even devoted a page to counterfeit cards.Just go to a Best Buy or similar, pay $2 extra and know what you are getting.

That's why I use Samsung SD cards, they have a software tool that will validate if the card is authentic or not.

Memory cards purchased through Amazon

KMM000 wrote:
John from PA wrote:
droopyNJ wrote:
John from PA wrote:

A Sandisk 32 GB card is $13 at Best Buy.

Just ordered 2 for $13 on Amazon. I was running out of space on my other Nuvi 2559 with both NA and EU maps.

Amazon is one of the worst places to buy memory cards. There are many fake cards on Amazon, a few years ago Amazon even devoted a page to counterfeit cards.Just go to a Best Buy or similar, pay $2 extra and know what you are getting.

That's why I use Samsung SD cards, they have a software tool that will validate if the card is authentic or not.

But why create the need to even check the card? Make your buying practices minimize the possibility. Amazon has been shown to use a practice called commingling.

Here is an example of commingling. Let's say I give Amazon 100 counterfeit Samsung SD memory cards. Amazon also buys direct from Samsung 100 copies of genuine cards for sale under the conditions “filled and shipped by Amazon”. All the cards, both counterfeit and genuine, at any given Amazon warehouse are placed in the same stock bin and the computer simply handles who made the purchase and a robot (most likely) draws the card from the bin at time of purchase. But in this example, you have a 50/50 chance of getting a counterfeit memory card.

Amazon regards the products as fungible (it's an actual legal term), meaning that a memory card made by brand xyz and labeled as Samsung, is the same regardless of who is selling it. Further, if a warehouse in Brooklyn runs out of stock of the card, the order may be filled from a warehouse in Harrisburg PA, again regardless of who has supplied the cards in any given bin.

So the buyer needs to use caution in purchasing these small commodity items; you may not know what you get, until you get it! And in the instance of memory cards,

Best Buy at the Corporate level purchases thousands, perhaps millions of memory cards every year, and they purchase them direct from the authorized importer. They are then disseminated downward to the individual stores as needed. There isn't any unknown middle person, the memory card is supplied from Samsung (Korea) to Best Buy Corporate to the local Best Buy retail store. The odds are much higher in this scenario to get a genuine Samsung memory card.

This was well documented back in 2014 by many sources, and again recently, one at https://www.buffalo.edu/news/tipsheets/2024/amazon-commingli.... Whether it holds true today, and specifically with respect to Samsung memory cards, remains an unknown. But with the holidays approaching, it is again getting press as a deceptive practice on the part of Amazon. But buying the memory card from the retail Best Buy retail store seems to be a better path.

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John from PA