Street Navigators, useage o/s ?
Submitted: Friday, Aug 31, 2007 at 08:20
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Footloose
Recently experienced the useage of an in car navigator, along with its voice. (Now that could get a bit wearing :)
They seem to be available at a reasonable price. My question is, can you just plug in maps of overseas cities, or do you have to fiddle ?
If you are navigating
Sydney, can you just put it in your pocket, fly to say New
York, pop in a new card and away you go, or is it as usual, more complex?
TIA
Reply By: Member - GeeTee (NT) - Friday, Aug 31, 2007 at 09:23
Friday, Aug 31, 2007 at 09:23
I've got the Garmin 276c and have used it in Canada and New Zealand using their navigator mapping. Works great and is only a matter of loading the maps or parts of the maps you need using Mapsource on your PC. Took us through Christchurch from one side to the other, up and down the one way streets ... great.
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Follow Up By: Member - GeeTee (NT) - Friday, Aug 31, 2007 at 09:31
Friday, Aug 31, 2007 at 09:31
Forgot to mention... I think you can load the maps onto the card then you only need to swap the card over. Down side, you have to use their propriety card and they are expensive.
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Follow Up By: Member - Doug T (Qld) - Friday, Aug 31, 2007 at 11:47
Friday, Aug 31, 2007 at 11:47
GeeTee
Not if you have one of the Nuvi units, or the c510, they use an ordinary SD Cards and or the Micro card as do some of the other Garmin units
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Follow Up By: Bonz (Vic) - Saturday, Sep 01, 2007 at 01:29
Saturday, Sep 01, 2007 at 01:29
So did you have to buy the City Navigatgor maps for over there? That wouldve been very expensive, looked into doing that last year for germany and italy but the costs were too much. One can hire the units from the Car hire companies ends up cheaper but depends on how long u are staying
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Reply By: Skippy In The GU - Friday, Aug 31, 2007 at 09:29
Friday, Aug 31, 2007 at 09:29
With the Garmin range you can hire the sd cards with maps of most countries from GpsOz
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Follow Up By: Bonz (Vic) - Saturday, Sep 01, 2007 at 01:30
Saturday, Sep 01, 2007 at 01:30
wish that worked with the GPSMap 60 CS :( no SD cards
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Follow Up By: Member - JohnR (Vic)&Moses - Saturday, Sep 01, 2007 at 07:57
Saturday, Sep 01, 2007 at 07:57
Bonz, you will have to learn to use a small soldering iron rather than the bigger power line capacity ones. DON'T BURN YOURSELF though. LOL
Another week?
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Follow Up By: Bonz (Vic) - Tuesday, Sep 04, 2007 at 14:16
Tuesday, Sep 04, 2007 at 14:16
yep one more
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Reply By: Footloose - Friday, Aug 31, 2007 at 09:42
Friday, Aug 31, 2007 at 09:42
Thanks to all. I've rung the hire people , the rates seem resonable, and for the occasional user, it's one way to go.
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