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Navigon FreshMaps Map Update Service | 
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| Brand: Navigon
Category: CE
List Price: $79.99
Buy New: $56.56
You Save: $23.43 (29%)
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Rating:  9 reviews
Media: Electronics
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.1
Dimensions (in): 1 x 3 x 2
MPN: 10000280
Model: 10000280
UPC: 898110001303
EAN: 0898110001303
ASIN: B0014GBX64
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Regular map and POI updates for accurate navigation | | • | NAVIGON FreshMaps are tested and verified by NAVTEQ | | • | No monthly subscription fee | | • | Activate online within 60 days of purchase and receive three years of map updates |
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Product Description
Do you know where you're going? An ancient axiom says, "If anything is certain, nothing is certain". The world, its roads, pathways and everything between are open to change. Freshmaps is a service for owners of select Navigon GPS devices that provides up to 12 updates of maps and points-of-interest over the course of three years. Using Freshmaps means you're map software will always be the most recent and up-to-date. That way you'll have better access to where you're going and better knowledge of what services will be available when you get there. Change is inevitable. Keep your GPS refreshed with FreshMaps.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 4 more reviews...
 Navigon Freshmaps Update September 21, 2008
Bruce P. Taylor
My Navigon 7100 is invaluable to me as I travel quite extensively throughout the U.S. By taking it with me, and either using it in my personal vehicle or in a rental when having to fly, this unit with the updated Freshmaps gets me there 98% of the time. I have noticed that it does get confused occasionally and I have to make an adjustment to let it " recalculate route ". By being patient when this happens, it works out. No more gas station stops asking directions. I am amazed at how well this unit works. I will take 98% accurate anytime over getting lost at all, espeacially at two in the morning in a strange city.
B.Taylor -- Michigan
Good Investment September 19, 2008
James W. Gerber (Voorhees, NJ USA)
I have an old Garmin GPS and updates are $80/year so Navigon's price is an excellent bargain compared with what others want. The update went find without problems. The only complaint I have is the same one I have for the Garmin updates. It seems to take an average of 2 years for changes to get to a GPS (both companies use the same source Navteq). If you go to an online service that uses Navteq, you will see pretty fresh information so I think it's the process of getting the data to the GPS manufacturer and then formatting and testing the data.
Still behind in updating data September 15, 2008
S. Rains (Austin, TX)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Better than not having any updates available but still lacking in important new roads. Maybe in other parts of the country Navtec is current but in the Austin, TX and its surrounding communities, the newest Navigon update falls woefully short of my expectations. Toll roads and new roads that have been in place for nearly two years and in some cases over three years still do not show up on the newest release. The product is still valuable for finding established addresses but falls short when looking for the fastest or shortest route due to the roads that have yet to be included. Still love my Navigon and still think the upgrading subscription is a good buy. Just dissappointed it is not more up to date.
 Navigon Fresh Maps Map Update Service August 29, 2008
Dan Musgrave (Ohio)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
The product was delivered in due time. I was not in a hurry and when it was sent through the postal service you just need to be patient. The product worked as promised and was much more reasonable on price than any where else I found. Just be sure to look good at the code needed to start the system because they are not very clear sometimes and the only problem I experienced was entering the proper code to get the update.
 FreshMaps...a difficult and frustrating installation August 22, 2008
R. Nicholson
12 out of 12 found this review helpful
This review deals with my problems installing FreshMaps onto my Navigon 2120 GPS. I make no comments as to how the updates worked once finally installed. (I will try to comment, at a later date, on the functionality of the product once I've had time to assess it)
I purchased the Navigon FreshMaps card, and activated the service through the Navigon website by typing in the access code found on the card. So far no problem.
I then attempted to download the FreshMaps that were now available from a program I'd previously downloaded, called 'Navigon Fresh'. BTW, I believe all downloads from Navigon are now done via the 'Navigon Fresh' program. Having it on my computer would enable me to do the following very useful things...
1.) update software.
2.) download FreshMaps and
3.) Make Backups of the my GPS Navigon SD card on my computer.
I connected my GPS to my computer via the correct USB cable and pressed the down load link. A message appears stating there was no MN (My Navigon) software on my SD card. I checked my SD card...there was a MN file on the card...what's up???
Next I tried connecting the SD card to my computer via a SD reader. Eureka, success! When I pressed download FreshMaps it responded, but when it came time to actually download the software, it tells me the Navigon SD card is full and I'll have to delete something from it to make room. Apparently the 'new' software doesn't overwrite the 'old' software. So I start deleting some files from my Navigon SD card (making a backup first), but I still got the 'not enough space on the SD' message every time.
Getting a larger, 4 GB SD card for example, was not an option, as no one makes anything larger than 2GB card for regular SD. There is a 4GB SDHC card (Scan Disc High Capacity) but this would not function in my Navigon GPS (I know, I tried).
So I decided to go out and buy another 2GB SD card (more $$ spent!!). I inserted it into the reader, pressed download, and I got the message 'no MN software' on the SD card...WOW, stymied again!! So as a last resort I copied a 'MN' file from my backed-up copy onto the new blank SD card and...it worked! Finally after all the snafus, I was able to begin the download of the NEW FreshMaps I'd purchased. And even then, this download took 4-5 hours on a DSL connection! BUT, I got it downloaded, installed and my GPS is now working with the latest maps.
Conclusion:
I guess what is SO annoying is the lack of download/installation instructions with this product. There was no hint as to any unusual installation procedures on the FreshMaps package or the Navigon website. What should have been a seamless, easy download/installation, wasn't; it turned out to be an exercise in frustration. I was lucky, if I hadn't thought to copy the 'MN file' onto the new blank SD card this update would never have downloaded and worked.
You know, maybe I missed something obvious in the download procedure or I didn't see something, a 'it's right in front of you' moment...but I don't think so. I hope my trials and tribulations with this product will help someone else. This very well may be an excellent set of updated maps, but if you can't download/install them a little easier than this, it's hardly worth the effort.
For the inconvenience and the lack of the barest of info regarding downloading and installation procedures... 1 Star
R.Nicholson
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