Garmin GPS topos card

Could be something wrong. My Nuvi 5000 as standard shows all the streets in Cooktown. Even the CREB road and Bloofield road when we went along them last week.

Hi, I haven't got the topo maps but there was a thread not so long ago saying that the detail was not flash and Garmin were doing an update next year. Do a search on past threads.

Cheers

Mark

It's not exactly plug and play as such. Do you have the topo maps actually selected to display on your unit?
I'm not sure about the Nuvi 265, but on the 760 from the main menu screen touch Tools>Settings>Map>Map Info. There you select Topo Australia and deselect City Navigator. If you don't deselect City Navigator, I think it will over-ride Topo Australia.
The streets of Cooktown are definitely shown (and named), I have just checked this on my own Nuvi 760.

Cheers
Glenn

Do you have this Topo Australia

Hi Kirk
You should have read my post a couple of weeks ago when we returned from a great trip through the Great Victoria Desert. We have had the same problem that any person that has purchased the Garmin Topo Australia maps will have - they are a complete waste of money and any person that has purchased them should be given a FULL REFUND!. We sell them at my work, I also rang our Garmin Rep, and like any good rep, said that the Garmin product that he sells and promotes was the ants pants. How wrong they are. I have sent emails to my rep and also Garmin, requesting a full refund. I was using it in conjunction with the free to download Shonky Maps, that could not be faulted.

As I also do freelance mapping for a Major Map maker here in Australia, I am fully qualified to comment, even offering Garmin at no charge, my correctly recorded track files to show them just how far they are out. True to form and nearly one month later, my only reply was last week by telephone from our rep saying that there is going to be a major upgrade in 2010, but could not make any comments about my request.

I am now giving full praise to the Hema Navigator. One of the other vehicles in my group was running one and it left the Garmin Topo Australia in its wake.

Again my advise for any person that is thinking of purchasing the Garmin Topo Australia, is DO NOT WASTE YOUR HARD EARNT MONEY, download the free Shonky Maps and you will not go wrong.

I am sorry that you to have had this issue, when you get home, my advise is send Garmin a email, also requesting a full refund and take it back to the place where you were sold a product that does not meet the Garmin Standard and request a FULL REFUND.


Cheers

Stephen

I have a topo map set also running on a Nuvi 250 which is good in some places and very bad in others.

What I cannot understand is that the map set is supposed to be supplied by Hema.

All I can say is that Hema must have supplied very old maps.

On the Donahue I was consistently driving"cross country" as the road alignment was off the screen. from Longreach to Rocky, the route appeared to be via Townsville.

However in the GRR it was spot on, as it was all the way down the coast road of WA. It also showed minor tracks off the Plenty and Tanami.

Maybe because I only have a 250, I find the street maps quicker in town. ie they say to turn at a roundabout before the roundabout, not after.

I also would like to see a much more accurate set.
Regards Philip A