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With time comes change. When using GPS units you may encounter new roads and varying points of interest. Updating your Garmin GPS device keeps you current. This Garmin Map 2008 DVD software offers full coverage of North America - United States, Canada and Puerto Rico. Software may be loaded to a Macintosh or PC computer. Then you can simply transfer it to your compatible Garmin GPS device. ln small ways, there are changes in towns, on roadways, and practically everywhere. Know where you're going and how to get there. Drive safely. PC - Windows 2000 or newer; 256 MB RAM, at least 800x600 display, 16-bit color monitor; 2GB free disk space, USB port, DVD drive Mac - Any lntel-based Mac or PowerPC G3 or later Mac, 256 MB RAM, Mac 0S X 10.4 or later, 1024x768 display, 2GB free disk space, USB port, DVD drive









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Buyer's feedback: - * Garmin Update CD ...
A not so minor glitch occurred. This was the wrong disk for our Garmin version. In fact, the product number had been given to me by Garmin with the comment that they were out of stock and that I could find it on Amazon (probably cheaper!!) Looked at the instructions that came with the CD and realized that I had the wrong product - d--- (that, of course, stands for DARN).

Called Garmin to confirm the need for a correction - they admitted that they gave me the wrong product number. Then a REAL demonstration of customer service took place - The Garmin Tech Rep gave me an RMA number and told me to include a note with the correct number on it. Garmin took it back and sent me the right disk. Do I like Garmin? You're darned tooten.

Next VERY minor glitch. The info has expanded so it does not fit on a 1 Gig card any more (I have EVERYTHING Garmin has - US and Canada on our GPS in case we get to travel that far someday). I had just bought a 2 GIG card which never did make it to my camera. Had to buy another for the camera but I am really very happy with the upgrade on the Garmin C320.

How about the folks I bought it from on the internet? They shipped it quickly and I got it quickly - the wrong number was not their fault. I would have no hesitation dealing with them again - but next time I want to be sure to give them the correct number.

I have to tell anyone wanting to buy an "add-on" GPS. I like the Garmin C320 more than I like the built in one in my Acura MDX. The only two things I like better on mine are the Zoom feature (dial v trying to hit the little + and - spots on the screen of the C320, and the ability to get traffic info from my XM subscription in the MDX). And my son, the one I turn to for recommendations on what Tech Stuff to buy, likes his wife's C320 better than the one in his Infiniti FX-35. These are two high end cars and the Nav systems cost over 1000$ vs, now, about 200 for the C320!! Save some dough - buy the Garmin - and you can take it with you when you fly somewhere! If both of our cars had Nav systems, I would still own a Garmin for travel.

Last year my wife took it with her to an unfamiliar city and put it in a rental car. She had a cousin's address in the outskirts of that city. He told her to call when she reached a certain gas station and he would come out to get them (she and her sisters) "because no one can find this place". When they knocked on his door he could not believe it.

When I bought it she accused me of just wanting "another tech toy" but now, like her PDA (which I had to bludgeon her into trying at first - she was as much married to that DayTimer as she was to me) she does not want to be without her GPS either.

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Buyer's feedback: - Full of Errors & Out of date already
This map is dated 2008 but it does not include changes to major roads that happened in 04, 05, & 06! It did fix a few errors on the old map that really annoyed me, so it is somewhat of an improvement. I would guess that I went from 35% of my trips having a major error to 25% having a major error. One of the most common problem is not showing a road as one-way. Another is the map shows roads as connected when they aren't since one road is a bridge over the other one. Another common problem is service roads near a freeway. The GPS isn't even 50% accurate on those, (even worse in Texas). And that's in cities, don't get me started about all the errors in rural regions.

The POI database is really frustrating as well. Nothing like being in an unfamiliar city and asking for the closest KFC & being sent 5 miles & later finding out there was one 2 blocks away that isn't in the database!

My advice is to save your money & wait for something better to come along.

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Buyer's feedback: - * JUNK ...
The 2008 City Navigator was taken off the market in March of 2008 and distributors were instructed to not send them out. I purchased this in July 2008 (from Amazon :() and it will not load onto my Garmin. I am VERY DISAPPOINTED that they would send out inferior merchandise and not replace it. Rest assured this was my last order from them.

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Buyer's feedback: - Garmin GPS upgrade ..... lost destinations
I didn't realize that installing this would erase all the pre-programmed addresses I had in my GPS ..... I had to re-enter all my locations.

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Buyer's feedback: - * needs much better instructions ...
Granted I might not be the most computer literate person there is, but no where in the instructions does it tell you that you must delete all other languages in the gps in order to have enough memory for the download. It took Garmin 3-4 days to send me an email on what to do. Once I deleted everything that could be deleted the download went through. Better and more info needed for this type of upgrade.