+Bland by name Posted August 18, 2009 Share Posted August 18, 2009 When I press on address it asks for state/province first. I live in the UK so don’t have state or province! Somebody else claimed theirs asks for country instead. Any idea how I can change to this? Any help appreciated. Paul Quote Link to comment
+Maingray Posted August 18, 2009 Share Posted August 18, 2009 What maps are loaded on? Quote Link to comment
+Torgut Posted August 18, 2009 Share Posted August 18, 2009 When I press on address it asks for state/province first. I live in the UK so don’t have state or province! Somebody else claimed theirs asks for country instead. Any idea how I can change to this? Any help appreciated. Paul As a recent owner of a Dakota 20 I came to such problem today. It's not so important to me. Actually I already had forgot. But now that your brought it back I will follow this topic. I wonder why does it matter what map is loaded. The fact is in the map all the towns, villages and so are shown. Quote Link to comment
Motorcycle_Mama Posted August 18, 2009 Share Posted August 18, 2009 Yes, but not all maps have searchable data. The towns, etc. may be visibly shown, but they may not be in a database format that would permit searching. Quote Link to comment
+Torgut Posted August 18, 2009 Share Posted August 18, 2009 Yes, but not all maps have searchable data. The towns, etc. may be visibly shown, but they may not be in a database format that would permit searching. I see. But this is City Navigator Europe NT. I would expect such feature. Quote Link to comment
+binzi Posted August 18, 2009 Share Posted August 18, 2009 Do you have any other maps than CN Europe installed? The same thing happened to me lately. In my case it was caused by an OpenStreetMap that I compiled from several tiles using sendmap. As soon as I removed that map all was back to normal... Quote Link to comment
+Tahoe Skier5000 Posted August 18, 2009 Share Posted August 18, 2009 (edited) I am having a similar problem with my Oregon 400t (firmware 3.10). I am using Metroguide maps and the maps themselves show up just fine on the GPS. However, when I try and search for an address, I cannot get past the "Type State/Province" page. I've tried every possible spelling of California I could think of. Even different states. Still says "no results found". Landmarks, POI's, Cities can be searched for. I just cannot search for addresses. Edited August 18, 2009 by Tahoe Skier5000 Quote Link to comment
+Torgut Posted August 18, 2009 Share Posted August 18, 2009 Do you have any other maps than CN Europe installed? The same thing happened to me lately. In my case it was caused by an OpenStreetMap that I compiled from several tiles using sendmap. As soon as I removed that map all was back to normal... Now yes. I downloaded and installed a free topo map of Portugal a few hours ago; but not yesterday, when I tried to locate an address for the first time. Quote Link to comment
+binzi Posted August 18, 2009 Share Posted August 18, 2009 As stated above, this might be caused by one of the maps installed on your device. In my case it was a self-compiled OpenStreetMap. Disabling the maps using the menu of the Oregon does not fix this problem. You actually do have to temporarily remove the map that is causing this from the Oregon. It should be enough to rename it from say test.img to test.tmp. I would recommend to re-install/re-copy/re-name the maps one by one to figure out which one is causing this problem. This should help you to go back from "Type State/Province" to asking for the country again. Quote Link to comment
+binzi Posted August 18, 2009 Share Posted August 18, 2009 According to this post: http://forums.Groundspeak.com/GC/index.php?showtopic=229493 it might also be caused by an "outdated" Metroguide map. Quote Link to comment
+Torgut Posted August 18, 2009 Share Posted August 18, 2009 As stated above, this might be caused by one of the maps installed on your device. In my case it was a self-compiled OpenStreetMap. Disabling the maps using the menu of the Oregon does not fix this problem. You actually do have to temporarily remove the map that is causing this from the Oregon. It should be enough to rename it from say test.img to test.tmp. I would recommend to re-install/re-copy/re-name the maps one by one to figure out which one is causing this problem. This should help you to go back from "Type State/Province" to asking for the country again. As I said, the first time I tried to search by address, the map was alone in the unit. Hummm but I didn't wrote the name of the country, now that I think about it. Quote Link to comment
+g-o-cashers Posted August 18, 2009 Share Posted August 18, 2009 This problem is usually caused by an old or custom map on the unit (as binzi has pointed out). Try backing out your map files one at a time to see if you can get it to work. Quote Link to comment
+Torgut Posted August 18, 2009 Share Posted August 18, 2009 This problem is usually caused by an old or custom map on the unit (as binzi has pointed out). Try backing out your map files one at a time to see if you can get it to work. In my case, correct me if I'm wrong, but those are the latest maps. I think. I'm not familiar with Garmin systems, I just came from Magellan. Quote Link to comment
+binzi Posted August 18, 2009 Share Posted August 18, 2009 City Navigator Europe NT should be fine I think. Are you sure you don't have any other maps installed on your unit? Quote Link to comment
+Torgut Posted August 18, 2009 Share Posted August 18, 2009 City Navigator Europe NT should be fine I think. Are you sure you don't have any other maps installed on your unit? Yeaps, just restarted the process, sent the maps of Portugal to the unit using MapSource. Only maps there, besides original basemap. No Address Search... "Try Adjusting Search Parameters"... by the way... where the hell one does this? Quote Link to comment
+binzi Posted August 19, 2009 Share Posted August 19, 2009 While playing around and trying to recreate your problem I noticed something interesting today: - I had a couple of custom maps on my Oregon such that it would not allow me to search for countries but only for states and provinces. - I then renamed all foobar.img files (including the basemap) to foobar.old and restarted the device - for each map I would then reconnect the Oregon to the PC rename one single map file back to .img, unplug and restart the Oregon to see which map did cause the problem Surprisingly I was able to rename all maps to .img without causing the state/province problem. So now I do have all my maps on the unit and I am able to search for countries etc... Seems like it might also depend on the order in which you install your maps. Quote Link to comment
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