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I purchased the Garmin City Navigator NORTH AMERICA NT 2009 on an SD CARD and am attempting to load it from my GPS to my Mapsource program for easier manipulation and management. When I try to do this, I receive an erro message that City Navigator North America NT 2008 is not installed. The 2009 software is not an upgrade/update version. How can I get around this? What am I doing wrong?

Any suggestions on the better map products out there? The terminology can be confusing. Your unit came with a basemap. When you add more detailed maps to the unit, that is not considered by Garmin to be an “update”. You are just adding detailed maps. To do that, you have to buy an original-install version of a map product. After that, you can buy updates for that map product when they become available, usually about once a year. You can skip updates, but you can’t start with an update. You have to start with a full-install, or original-install, version. Unfortunately, the original-install versions are not labeled explicitly as such. They just don’t say “update”. I hope this makes sense. Bottom line: You shouldn't be buying any product labeled "update" at this point.

Thank you!!![ quote name=roybassist' date='Jun 20 2008, 11:09 AM' post='3525022] The terminology can be confusing. Your unit came with a basemap. When you add more detailed maps to the unit, that is not considered by Garmin to be an “update”. You are just adding detailed maps. To do that, you have to buy an original-install version of a map product. After that, you can buy updates for that map product when they become available, usually about once a year. You can skip updates, but you can’t start with an update. You have to start with a full-install, or original-install, version. Unfortunately, the original-install versions are not labeled explicitly as such. They just don’t say “update”. I hope this makes sense. Bottom line: You shouldn't be buying any product labeled "update" at this point.

Thanks for the details. I did see "update" maps available on ebay but wasn't sure if they were cumulative or not. In other words, I wasn't sure if you needed to have the previous updates, if any, installed before you got the new update. Can you shed any light on this?

I just began geocaching and purchased a Garmin 60 CSX GPS. I know there are many mapping updates available, but as usual, all come at a cost. What mapping software is best to purchase to get the most out of the unit and the geocaching experience?