Garmin 60 CSx
Submitted: Sunday, Aug 05, 2007 at 18:39
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Mijanou
I just bought a Garmin 60CSx as
well as the City Navigator V9 Australia.
Looking at the map I stated that there are several gravel roads which are not indicated on it. I am using a Hema map as
well.
In order to enter the road on my Garmin do I have to use only way points and Garmin will tell me when to turn off even if there is no road indicated on the city navigator ?
Is there a possibility to buy another map with all gravel roads/tracks indicated on it ?
Sorry for these questions maybe a little stupid but I am living in Europe/Belgium and here nobody seems to be able to help me.
Thanks for your help.
Reply By: SCUBADOO - Sunday, Aug 05, 2007 at 19:49
Sunday, Aug 05, 2007 at 19:49
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Is there a possibility to buy another map with all gravel roads/tracks indicated on it ?
ALL?? Next to impossible anywhere in the world.
An excellent free alternative especially in rural areas but not autorouting.
Search google for "shonkymaps".
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Reply By: Robin Miller - Sunday, Aug 05, 2007 at 20:57
Sunday, Aug 05, 2007 at 20:57
City Navigator does have an off-road route calculation feature which works
well between waypoints.
There is no complete map with all the roads and paper maps are best soucre.
An option to remote
places is to get track plots from sites like this and load them via map source.
Shonky maps does not , and is not intended to be a complete track soucre.
Tracks for Australia is not either but has the most tracks, outside the cities but with a lot of old an inaccurate data.
While above may not sound the best its not an issue for the regular
well known tracks which are
well supported.
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Follow Up By: The Explorer - Monday, Aug 06, 2007 at 09:18
Monday, Aug 06, 2007 at 09:18
Hello Robin - arent T4A and Shonky identical with respect to roads tracks and eveything else? They were both created from the same 250K data. This is also the same data that ExplorOz uses for there plotswap maps. Any differences between them all relates mostly to colours, line types, polygon fills and labelling.
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Greg
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Follow Up By: Robin Miller - Monday, Aug 06, 2007 at 09:39
Monday, Aug 06, 2007 at 09:39
T4A has had extra track data supplied by user contributions and is quite different in some areas Greg.
Whereas Shonky is only original track data as you describe and has policy of not upgrading tracks.
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Follow Up By: The Explorer - Monday, Aug 06, 2007 at 10:29
Monday, Aug 06, 2007 at 10:29
oh thats right forgot about the user add ons.
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Greg
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Reply By: Skippy In The GU - Sunday, Aug 05, 2007 at 21:29
Sunday, Aug 05, 2007 at 21:29
Version 9 ?, what happened to Version 8
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Follow Up By: Bonz (Vic) - Monday, Aug 06, 2007 at 23:10
Monday, Aug 06, 2007 at 23:10
Just heard today that there is Version 2008 due out Sept 2007 of CNav
Version 9 worried me too
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Reply By: Member - Doug T (W.A) - Sunday, Aug 05, 2007 at 21:30
Sunday, Aug 05, 2007 at 21:30
Garmin MapSource City Navigator V9 is the product on DVD with comprehensive street-mapping for major metropolitan areas in Europe
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Follow Up By: Mijanou - Monday, Aug 06, 2007 at 05:45
Monday, Aug 06, 2007 at 05:45
Sorry it is the "city navigator Australia", I mixed up as I also have the city navigator V9 for Europe.
But here my question is about the city navigator for Australia.
Thanks for your reply;
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Follow Up By: Bonz (Vic) - Monday, Aug 06, 2007 at 23:11
Monday, Aug 06, 2007 at 23:11
Mijanou, if uyou get the Hema maps or 250k maps you can pull off waypoints and use them. City Navigator has LOTS of the gravel roads and tracks on it but not all of them
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