City Navigatorandreg; Europe NT Note: You cannot use this product to update the maps on your preloaded Garmin device. To order updated map data for your preloaded Garmin device, visit the Map Updates page. Navigating Europe just got easier thanks to City Navigator Europe NT v9. This latest version contains highly detailed maps of major metropolitan areas in Europe and includes Eastern Europe coverage. It also includes full coverage in Spain and Portugal and expanded address coverage in Belgium. This DVDs extensive points of interest database makes it simple to find a local gas station, restaurant and more. It also includes traffic data that allows certain units to use traffic receivers. City Navigator Europe NT v9 is included with the purchase of several Garmin units and is also available for purchase as a stand-alone product. See the product compatibility table (right) for a list of products that Garmin recommends with this software. Version 9 features include: - Expanded coverage now includes Eastern Europe - Now with full coverage for Spain and Portugal - Expanded address ranges for Belgium - Now includes 7.3 million KM of road coverage - Now includes 1.3 million POIs - Expanded coverage in Finland, Ireland, Portugal, Spain, and the Czech Republic - Expanded points of interest for the U.K. - Detailed maps of major metropolitan areas in Europe, including motorways, national and regional thoroughfares and local roads - Turn restrictions and speed c
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Summary: Garmin GPS software for Europe
Comment: We purchased the software for a car trip around Scotland. Overall, we were very happy with its performance. However, when we were in Skye and the Outter Hebrides we found that the roads were either not mapped or incompletely mapped. It never caused any problems but is was somewhat disconcerting. There were also instances in Perth and Edinburgh where the maps were old and need to be updated for new round abouts, etc. but once again this didn't ever really cause any problem either.
Customer Rating: Summary: Garmin Europe Worked Fine
Comment: We used Garmin City Navigator for bicycling in Europe. It showed all but the smallest of roads (paths), even gravel roads. I was very happy with it and would use it also for driving. The maps loaded onto my Garmin Nuvi 260 easily with the included software. The points of interest were also very helpful.
Customer Rating: Summary: Well, it works.....
Comment: I've recently moved to the US - bought the add on for my US purchased Garmin for a business trip back to the UK. The software installed fine although it is a bit dated and I haven't found the button to press to install it to a memory card ( quite happy admit I'm missing something - will update on this ).
In general I got where I needed to go. In most cases I was in familiar-ish territory and was surprised by the routes taken and in one case over a 5 mile journey I was sent towards a no-entry sign and an illegal u-turn, which were restrictions in place well before 2007. I haven't explored too many big metropolises in the US but had never had these sorts of problems!?
Saying that, it does install fine onto the GPS and didn't get lost!
Customer Rating: Summary: Some helpful hints
Comment: The registration really isn't a nightmare - inside the packaging there's a leaflet with a 8 character coupon code. When you run the DVD, make sure you're online, have your Garmin unit plugged in and powered on, choose to get a 25 character unlock code, enter the 8 character coupon code when prompted and away you go.
As for getting maps onto the Garmin unit, what I did was,
- Run the MapSource program (either runs automatically or it'll be in the Windows Start menu under "Garmin"). Yes, it's not pretty but it does the job.
- Select the whole map of Europe. Use the map select tool (a button on the MapSource toolbar that looks like a polygon with a yellow glow) and drag over the whole image of Europe. Storing all of the maps requires about 1400MB total. You can also select/de-select sub-regions of the map.
- Choose the menu option. "Transfer->Send to device". Now, you have a choice of storing maps in your unit's internal memory (appear in the list as a "nuvi" device) or an SD card that you might have in the unit (appears as a separate device in the list, something like "H:"). My unit had maps of North America pre-installed when I bought it. When I tried to transfer the maps of Europe to the internal memory, it told me that I had only about 500MB-ish available. So, I transferred the maps to the 4GB SD card instead.
- Go watch that episode of "The Wire" that you've been meaning to get round to. Indexing and downloading takes a while.
- You're done! It's really not bad at all - just accept that if you want to store maps in the unit's internal memory, there's a limited amount of space available so you'll probably just want to store the countries that you're travelling to. Otherwise, get a nice SD card (you should check the Garmin website to see if your unit can take 4GB SD cards, or only up to 2GB) and put the maps on there.
Customer Rating: Summary: Maps OK; Garmin registration not so...
Comment: Bought this to travel to Belgium & Amsterdam for use with an eTrex Vista unit. While the maps worked fine on the unit, getting this registered via the web interface was a PITA. I had already installed the North American maps and getting the Garmin registration process to recognize two products required multiple back&forth email exchanges. I'm not convinced the problem was resolved, but I did get the maps unlocked and loaded onto the unit; which is what I really cared about.
With the limited use I gave the maps I only had one issue. I was navigating to a restaurant in Amsterdam and I ended up at a 'coffee shop'. Turns out that they used to serve food there and now serve 'other things'. The owner told me how they had moved the food down the street 1/2 a block as they needed more room for the food and had turned the old restaurant into a 'coffee shop'. Not a big deal, but be aware of the dynamic nature of the POIs. Other than that, worked great; got me to where I wanted to go (on foot & bike).
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