Autumn Map Updates – 12. September 2022

Hi Everyone, wishing you a good final to your outdoor season in Europe this year. To make it even better I have done extensive back to back testing with several Garmin GPS devices on my handlebar – trying to improve visibility even more – especially as on the newest Garmin Edge 1040 and Explore 2 the screens did change a bit in their characteristics.

So here is a list of the main changes:

All windows downlaods are again code signed. Seemingly Sectigo is simply just another company low on staff – but one month after having supplied all the data to them – they finally finished the authorization – so the warning on the downloads should no slowly dispappear as the new code signing certificate gets recognized by Microsoft (this will take several thousands of installs). Residential streets – used to be white in some layouts – and grey in others. On the new edge devices depending on sun position the white roads were a bit hard to identify. So now I made them grey for all layouts. The Garmin edge 1040 / explore 2 sadly reduced the search functionality a lot. Many categories are missing (before the last […]

Sorry for delayed Updates

Sorry for not having updated the maps over 3 weeks now. 6 weeks ago I started to order a new code signing certificate – but I had problems fulfilling the requirements and now that since 2 weeks I have all the requirements done – Sectigo is still not validating my data. So today I decided to push updates through without signed installers and signing of other files.

This will surely cause antivirus programs and windows download shield to go havoc. I hope I can get the certificate soon but Sectigo seems unable to work with simple problems as my address once being in English translation and once in romanized script (Istanbul vs Istanmpoul) and the street number (not house or door number) once being there – once not – things which in Cyprus are confusing as every authority has it’s own take on how they will publish the address.

For Mac OSx, gmapsupp.img downloads this nearly doesn’t matter – but I could not change the map creation procedure to take out the .exe installers for windows so I had decided to wait hoping for a certificate being issued any day…

Well I will now restart the weekly updates – and […]