Handheld GPS Reviews - Customer reviews - GARMIN 010-10887-00 City Navigator Europe NT

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Name: Car Guy "CM"
Location: Detroit, MI
Date: 2007-11-23
Customer Rating: -

Summary: European Navigation Data
Comment: 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.

Name: TheFuzz
Location: Los Angeles, CA
Date: 2008-09-30
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.

Name: Marv Weiss
Location: Schenectady, NY, USA
Date: 2008-06-02
Customer Rating: -

Summary: Great European Maps for Garmin
Comment: 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!

Name: M. J. Lovelady
Location: Michigan
Date: 2008-10-05
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!

Name: Bawb the Biker
Location: Northern Wisconsin USA
Date: 2008-10-06
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.

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