http://www.garmin-250.com/blog/2009/12/free-map-updates-for-garmin-nuvi-350-gps/ Question and Answers about Garmin GPS Tue, 13 Jul 2010 00:43:47 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://www.garmin-250.com/blog/2009/12/free-map-updates-for-garmin-nuvi-350-gps/comment-page-1/#comment-1257 gary t Wed, 16 Dec 2009 06:04:33 +0000 http://www.garmin-250.com/blog/2009/12/free-map-updates-for-garmin-nuvi-350-gps/#comment-1257 That depends where you are, and how often the roads around you change. If you are in a country like Malaysia or New Zealand - there are free map projects. If you are in the USA or Europe, then there aren't really any other options (apart from Piracy). The update charge seems reasonable to me - I would probably pay it myself, if I was visiting the USA or Europe regularly. Could you really get an atlas with pretty much every street of every state in (say) the USA for $13? Garmin often offer lifetime update prices too - and for not that much more than the one-off price. You might want to consider that if you were planning on keeping the nüvi for a few years, or you could also just wait a while before updating. See how fast it goes out of date... That depends where you are, and how often the roads around you change. If you are in a country like Malaysia or New Zealand – there are free map projects. If you are in the USA or Europe, then there aren’t really any other options (apart from Piracy).
The update charge seems reasonable to me – I would probably pay it myself, if I was visiting the USA or Europe regularly.
Could you really get an atlas with pretty much every street of every state in (say) the USA for $13?
Garmin often offer lifetime update prices too – and for not that much more than the one-off price. You might want to consider that if you were planning on keeping the nüvi for a few years, or you could also just wait a while before updating. See how fast it goes out of date…

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