Road Names Missing Letters

[carolinarider09]

Just updated my Zumo 550 with the newest map using the clone process. This time I had some issues so I did it the way I did the first time I tired it.

Formatted the SD card, copied all the Zumo 550 files over, deleted all the files except the Garmin folder, maps uploaded fine and appear on the screen.

However, all of the road names are incomplete when you zoom in. I live on Barn Street so all I see on the Map is B... S..... Any ideas as to why?

Thanks.

[sussamb]

Issues like this after a map or software update are normally resolved by a master reset

[carolinarider09]

Thanks... I shall give it a try and report back.

[carolinarider09]

Before I tried the Master Reset trick, I took the SD Card out with the new maps on it and then replaced it with the old card with last year's maps.

Then I checked and the road names were there in there complete names.

Two things come to mind. One, I did the download and update wrong. Two, the new 23.20 maps are not compatible with my Zumo 550.

I will endeavor to do another map update using the cloning method. But, before I do that, I might well just try and pull out the SD card and just do an update to the Zumo 550 device using the internal memory and see what the result is (i.e. road names). That will surely show where the problem lies.

[carolinarider09]

I have not independently verified this but this seems like it might be the culprit.

From the link below on the GL1800riders forum

For those of you like me that make your own bike map from the latest releases of maps on your automotive devices, there has been a change to the way Garmin now formats it's maps beginning with 2023.10 (released Feb 2022).

Specifically Garmin is now using a mixture of upper and lower case street names in their maps. These newly formatted maps cause the lower case street names to appear as dots in older GPS units such as the ones installed on the GL1800 as well as older automotive units.

The latest map that I can use on my 2006 bike which has the 5.1 firmware is 2022.25 (released Dec 2021).

https://www.gl1800riders.com/threads/ga ... at.475557/

[carolinarider09]

I have not updated the maps again on my Zumo 550 but I saw a Zumo 550 for sale on another website. In the picture of the device for sale, it showed the screen with the map and road names were as I stated above. The owner stated the device was updated to CN North America 2023.20.

In other words it appears that the ZUMO 550 will not display, on newly updated maps, the full road name. It will only display the first letter (the first letter is capitalized) and the rest of the name (in lower case) will be just dots. An image of the screen is in Post #1 at the link below.

https://www.gl1800riders.com/threads/zu ... st-5958914