GARMIN CITY NAVIGATOR NT FOR EUROPE VERSION 9 From:Garmin , GARMIN CHARTS ,
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Batteries Included: 0
Binding: Accessory
Brand: Garmin
EAN: 0753759065492
Is Autographed: 0
Is Fragile: 0
Is Memorabilia: 0
Height: 100 hundredths-inches
Length: 1200 hundredths-inches
Weight: 260 hundredths-pounds
Width: 800 hundredths-inches
Label: GARMIN CHARTS
Legal Disclaimer: Warranty does not cover misuse of product.
Manufacturer: GARMIN CHARTS
Model: 900720
Packaged Height: 47 hundredths-inches
Packaged Length: 1220 hundredths-inches
Packaged Weight: 75 hundredths-pounds
Packaged Width: 866 hundredths-inches
Publisher: GARMIN CHARTS
Studio: GARMIN CHARTS
Feature:
- SOFTWARE, MAPSOURCE CITY NAVIGATOR
Product Description:
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
Customer Reviews:
2 of 2 customers found the following review helpful:
 Does what you'd expect, but now how you'd expect it, 2008-06-27
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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