Great European Maps for Garmin | GARMIN CITY NAVIGATOR NT FOR EUROPE VERSION 9

European Navigation Data | GARMIN CITY NAVIGATOR NT FOR EUROPE VERSION 9

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Some helpful hints

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.

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Great European Maps for Garmin

Purchased this CD for geocaching in Spain, Portugal and Gibraltar while on tour. Maps were detailed and accurate.

Caveat - can only be used on Garmin GPS units with supplimental memory chips, otherwise excellent!

European Navigation Data

This is a good buy since updates are relatively inexpensive (about $70). If you get the same data on flash memory instead of the CD you can't update it, it must be replaced. Uploading the data from CD to the Garmin Nuvi could use a little more explanation to ease the process initially.

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Does what you'd expect, but now how you'd expect it

After updating firmware and the built-in US maps on my Garmin Nuvi, I expected this CD-ROM to be a matter of firing up an install utility that connects to the nuvi and...ZAP...puts all the roads of Europe on it. Unfortunately, it doesn't work like that at all.

First off, the CD-ROM is Windows only. Blah. I'll forgive that, but it's not even a particularly friendly Windows program. To use it, you have to go through some bologna on-line to use the code that comes in the packaging and then register on [...] and then get another code that activates a license for just one Garmin GPS. Annoying.

The next step, after surviving the copy protection and activation nonsense, is to fire up what appears to be the world's most pathetic PC mapping software, reminiscent of a Windows 3.1 application ported from DOS: few menu options and even fewer that are truly intuitive. Apparently what you need to do here is select the regions of Europe you want to load on your Garmin and then download them, bearing in mind that there is a finite amount of free space on your GPS and, apparently, not enough free space to hold all the roads of Europe...bummer.

Selecting the regions isn't what you'd expect, either. You can't just click on France and load all of its roads; there are a bunch of different regions of France, each of which must be clicked individually. You can't even just get Paris to Charles de Gaulle airport in one region. Central Paris is one region and CDG is in another. While you're at it, you probably should select a few more regions, like La Defense and all the adjacent regions to central Paris, because, heaven forbid, you decide to drive outside central Paris and not have the roads 10 miles outside of the city center loaded. Once you're done trying your best to guess every conceivable place you might drive in Europe (without choosing too many...remember, you only have so much space!) you can download all the maps to your GPS.

Once you actually *get* the maps on the GPS, it works pretty much how you'd expect. In Ireland, the thing paid for itself in spades, finding these little single-lane roads up the side of the mountain you'd swear was a driveway and not an honest road, but, it turns out, is the only way to get from here to there. The only operational oddity I could detect is that the already long boot time of my Nuvi appears to be even longer. Perhaps that's another reason not to load the whole continent.

For me, I love my Nuvi because I am away from home more days a year than I am home and it is handy to know I have maps to get me from anywhere to anywhere when I land in unfamiliar territory at 2 AM. I had hoped this map upgrade would give me that freedom for both North America and Europe, but, alas, that is not the case. I have North America and the subset of regions of Europe I thought I might be going to some time soon. I hope I don't get diverted to Frankfurt, though, without having preloaded the maps ahead of time.

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Maps OK; Garmin registration not so...

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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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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