Bing maps not so bad

Change to Bing doesn't affect me...I run or bike and don't care in the least what it looks like on a map. I care about the data and improvement in that data... *shrug* Bottom line, all the folks that are so unhappy with Bing don't speak for everyone that's a Garmin user despite the littany of "Bing sucks" posts.

I am not sure what the fuss is all about over Bing maps.

I like the new garmin connect updates. It's great to see laps on the maps, I also love the compare activities.

Bing maps seem fine, but I am just tracking runs. I also live outside of a major U.S. City.

I would rather have gamin focus on an iPad app, which I would pay for, the worry about this bing issue. It sucks that gamin connect flash based features do not work on iPad.

I bet the decision has to do with the licensing rates for google maps versus bing maps. Maybe the reason for the Change is increasing map license rates by google? I do not know, but it would put things in perspective for the hyper upset users.

Gamin has never warranted to it's users that it would not modify gamin connect. Neither is it reasonable to assume that gamin should be precluded from operating it's service at a reasonable cost.

Ok, so you don't use maps.... Of course they don't speak for your opinion about something you don't use in the first place, right?

So I guess the question is how people who actually use the stuff feel about it... or?

Plus, it seems that many are as irritated or more by how they treated the whole change. That is something that in the future could, potentially, affect you as well.

The posts of the upset GC users are certainly relevant but they are not the only voice. Nor are they necessarily the most important advice.

For me, personally, I would prefer that GC focus on improving GC functionality and an iPad app over international maps. Although I bet gamin knows, the international users may not be a big enough customer base to subsidize the international map costs. If so, why should I have to subsidize that limited customer base.

So you lost functionality - although some complaints seem overly pathetic, like out of focus- too bad. Buy a new product if you do not like it. You garmin product nevr came with any promise or guaranty of continued GC functionaliity.

The posts of the upset GC users are certainly relevant but they are not the only voice. Nor are they necessarily the most important advice.

For me, personally, I would prefer that GC focus on improving GC functionality and an iPad app over international maps. Although I bet gamin knows, the international users may not be a big enough customer base to subsidize the international map costs. If so, why should I have to subsidize that limited customer base.

So you lost functionality - although some complaints seem overly pathetic, like out of focus- too bad. Buy a new product if you do not like it. You garmin product nevr came with any promise or guaranty of continued GC functionaliity.