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Garmin MapSource City Navigator, North America DVD-ROM for Garmin StreetPilot GPS Units
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MSRP: $116.99
Your Price: $74.32
Savings: $ 42.67 ( 36% )
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Manufacturer: Garmin
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Garmin MapSource City Navigator, North America DVD-ROM for Garmin StreetPilot GPS Units Features
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GPS mapping DVD-ROM with fully routable, detailed maps of U.S., Canada, and Puerto Rico
Premium maps cover metropolitan areas, rural areas, highways, interstates, residential roads, and more
Automatically creates point-to-point routes in MapSource or on compatible Garmin GPS navigators
Includes more than 6 million points of interest; intuitive trip and waypoint management feature
Designed for Garmin's StreetPilot III, StreetPilot 2610, 2620, 2650 and 2660; 1-year warranty
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Additional Garmin MapSource City Navigator, North America DVD-ROM for Garmin StreetPilot GPS Units Information
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A GPS navigator is only as good as the maps it employs. Enter MapSource City Navigator North America, which comes with fully routable maps of U.S., Canadian, and Puerto Rican metropolitan areas. The detailed maps offer the perfect way to get around almost any North American city (and some countrysides, too), while offering more than six million points of interest, including restaurants, bars, hotels, attractions, movie theaters, gas stations, shopping malls, campgrounds, and more. Need a good back-seat driver for your next city-hopping road trip? Look no further than this DVD-ROM. Designed specifically for Garmin's StreetPilot III, StreetPilot 2610, and StreetPilot 2650 vehicle GPS navigators, the disc also boasts detailed information on highways, interstates, business roads, and residential roads, with such attributes as turn restrictions, roundabout guidance, speed categories, and other navigation details. In addition, each DVD offers automatic routing, so you can easily generate point-to-point routes in MapSource or on the compatible navigators. And thanks to the trip and waypoint management feature, you can also transfer waypoints, routes, and tracks between your Garmin GPS and PC. Other details include supplemental coverage of Hawaii (using unverified government data) and an Unlock Wizard that guides you through the unlocking process (required when downloading data to a data card or Garmin GPS). As with all Garmin Products, City Navigator North America comes with a one-year warranty. Important Note about Map Updates : Due to our high volume of sales, almost every Garmin portable GPS navigator sold by Amazon.com will come with the most recent map version. If you ever need a map update, you can get one from Garmin at http://www8.garmin.com/unlock/update.jsp. You will need to have your device's serial number ready.
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What Customers Say About Garmin MapSource City Navigator, North America DVD-ROM for Garmin StreetPilot GPS Units:
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If I am driving on the highway and would like to get something to eat, I can browse a list of restaurants near my current location and then easily have the GPS direct me there.More commonly, however, I need to find directions to a specific address, and -- despite spending nearly $500 for a device and software to do this for me in real time -- I usually use Google maps and prints the results. Even worse, you cannot simply type a street name but must then select from a drop-down list of every street name option in the database.In Google maps, I usually find what I'm looking for typing the street number, street name, and ZIP code and pressing enter (without regard to "Rd." or "St.", even with misspellings). This is an extraordinarily bad product that makes me question my recent purchase of the Garmin 60 CSX.The problem is the extraordinarily out of date user interface. For example, in order to get directions to a specific address, the address must be specified in separate fields for the street number, the street, the city, the state, and the ZIP code. in City Navigator, this requires at least five different steps and use of multiple drop down menus -- effectively making it useless for me.I give the product two stars rather than one because it is quite handy to have all the preloaded points of interest.
It has all the points of interest that I am looking for and the maps are very detailed but the mapping software has some rather annoying glitches when it comes to entering addresses. You almost have to trick it with certain addresses to get them to show up while creating a route.
I am not happy about this, but I like the GPS unit, so I will begrudgingly go through the hassle. It seems like this is probably a common problem (stale versions in inventory), but the fact that you immediately have to pay for an upgrade to get current doesn't sit well with me. I called the next day and was told that, unfortunately, free upgrades do not apply to maps purchased separately from a GPS unit. I think Garmin should be dinged for this unreasonable policy. It worked fine, but it was not the latest version.
As a result of this situation, I returned the City Navigator 2008 version and will order the 2009 version directly from Garmin. The update to City Navigator North America 2009 would have cost me $75 on top of the $80 I just paid Amazon for the DVD. When I installed it I was immediately notified by the installer program that there is an update available. I purchased this map set for my eTrex Vista HCx unit on 8/4/2008. Next I got on Garmin's web site and it said you can get a free upgrade within 30 days of purchase.
Most other software products include at least one free upgrade so you are starting with the most current version.
The only reason I knocked off a star in the rating is because it takes (in my case) HOURS to upload the maps to the SD card. The updated maps database and points of interest are nice to have. Thank you Garmin. Nice to see that Garmin is still providing a map product for this older platform. It's a backup to my newer Nuvi 760 but still works well especially after a battery transplant. But once it's done, you're good to go.
I then found out that the v9 is actually a stand-alone, and not an upgrade version, so I could have saved money by going straight for the supposed "upgrade." I think at this point I'll save the $75 and put it towards a non-Garmin unit.I am also having major problems with it in Vista, but hope installing it on my XP Pro laptop will at least make the DVD usable.Disappointing, at best. As soon as you install it, they tell you that v9 is available and that you "may" be charged $75 for the upgrade. I used to be a huge Garmin fan, but they have really mucked this up. The version that gets sent to you is v8. (To which I inquired and let's just say you "will" be charged).
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