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Re: My Garmin Quest displays...detail maps don't support...
May be zoomed in to close, could be that the antenna is not receiving good satellite signals, some windshields have metal to lower sun energy and this can affect reception. Try external antenna.....
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I have the 1490LMT also and all the maps I have found on this unit and others are usually a year behind or more with new road changes. That is why I bought a LMT unit, because I did not want to pay for outdated maps on my 265WT any longer. This is a problem with most Gps units sold. May be if more people write to Garmin and complain they may do something. I have attached a link to Garmin for you to let them know. http://www8.garmin.com/contactUs/ Thanks for using FixYa.
there is a screen that give you the choice of which detail is shown in the unit, touch the left corner of screen the the map is displayed that should bring up the options, if not is try reset by holding down finger on bottom right hand corner of screen before you power up, and go to www.garmin.com for software update
Don't believe everything you see on a GPS.
Garmin does not update their maps as they should; I found this even after I purchased their map update. I drove 48 states in a big rig, over many new roads not found or shown on the Garmin maps. My streetpilot usually went into a hiccup mode, recalculating -- recalculating -- recalculating. All the while, it tried to get me to detour on whatever spurious local roads happened to show up along the way.
I too have a Garmin Quest and yesterday felt like throwing it against the wall because of the above problem. I found the solution eventually. When you download the maps from the Garmin Maps page, where you select the maps download, make sure that the checkbox to "Include route calculation data" is ticked before downloading your maps. Also make sure that the total memory required for the number of maps selected does not exceed the available memory on your Quest. If you try to fit more information into your Quest than it can receive then you are bound to have some problems. The Quests seems to have different memory specifications. According to the USA spec the memory is only 128mb, the Garmin site says 115mb and the box that my Quest came in says that it has 243mb.
hi bud, just had the same problem. hard reset i.e turn off unit, hold down ok, page and then the power button at the same time. it should then ask you if you want to delete all data. select yes and then you should be able to upload your maps again, this worked for me good luck
Detailed road map data, with addresses, hotels, gas stations, etc. can
be loaded into a data-card/cartridge/memory-card using Garmin's
Mapsource software such as Metroguide or City Navigator. This can
be changed as needed via a PC. The 295 does not have driving routing/guidance through the streets as most of today's GPSs have, but it will show you exactly where you are on the street (but it should be switched to Road mode). Driving routing is possible on the PC using Mapsource, but ithe route doesn't transfer well to the 295 because of the limits on waypoints.
I was having the same problem and contacted Garmin support.
What I had done was turned off the Basemap that came with the unit. I only had the mapsource map street map on which I had purchased separately.
The technician basically said the unit needed the basemap to "locate itself". Somehow the basemap supports any maps you purchase separately. That seemed odd but once I turned the Basemap back on it calculated the routes and the error message went away.
If you have the Basemap off, try turning it on from the Map Setup - Information window.
If you don't have "Detailed Maps" for the area you are travelling in, it will not have adequate map detail to create routes that are not on major highways.
To remedy this, you will need to use another of GARMIN's products... I believe it's called Mapsource City Navigator, and will have to be purchased for the area you are concerned with. This PC software will then allow you to load additional Map Data onto an SD card, which will slip into the slot on the left side of the unit.
You can find out about it at their website www.garmin.com then look in Maps
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