GPS software updates

sullivanpunk · 11-22-2005, 09:54 PM

Do all GPS software get updates? if not which ones do? and are these updates downloadable from the manufacter's website?

LagunaICE · 11-23-2005, 04:51 AM

awesome post.

pip · 11-23-2005, 09:59 AM

From experience with Copilot and I'm feeling the same is true for most other GPS software packages: They will release occasional patches to fix bugs...but they are not well publicized. Any substantive changes...including map updates are only issued in a new release of the software. You will (at least) have to pay the upgrade price....which is a fair proportion of the full price normally.

Personally, I think map updates should be free.

smkaplan · 11-23-2005, 11:38 AM

some of the freeware and shareware solutions out there use raw Tiger data from the U.S. Census Bureau this is available in updated free thanks to our tax dollars. I haven't found a package yet that is as robust and functional as the commercial packages, though, so I use multiple programs and muddle through.