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MetroGuide vs City Navigator
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| OliverS 2007-02-01, 10:33 pm |
| Hello,
Can anyone tell me what the difference is between these two Garmin
MapSource products?
OliverS
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| Jack Erbes 2007-02-01, 10:33 pm |
| OliverS wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Can anyone tell me what the difference is between these two Garmin
> MapSource products?
>
> OliverS
MetroGuide maps will not autoroute when uploaded to a GPS. But
MetroGuide will autoroute on a laptop that has a GPS input and the free
nRoute software installed.
So if you have a mapping GPS that will not do autorouting, MetroGuide
will give you mapping for it. If you have a mapping GPS that is capable
autorouting, and want to have detail maps that will autoroute, you need
City Navigator.
To further the confusion, there is an older version of MetroGuide
(V4.0x) that will produce uploaded maps that will autoroute. And the
uploaded MetroGuide maps that are normally not capable of autorouting
can be made to autoroute if you use the software and somewhat
complicated and technical process described here:
http://garpatch.zexxo.net/ anleitun...
eng.html
Jack
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Jack Erbes in Ellsworth, Maine, USA (jackerbes at adelphia dot net)
(also receiving email at jacker at midmaine dot com)
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| John William Hughes 2007-02-02, 10:33 am |
| OliverS wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Can anyone tell me what the difference is between these two Garmin
> MapSource products?
The latest City Navigator 9 has far superior maps than any MetroGuide. I
think MetroGuide is an old product that will soon be discontinued.
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| Bert Hyman 2007-02-02, 10:33 am |
| lancs567@yahoo.co.uk (John William Hughes) wrote in
news:rBEwh.4827$9S5.3229@text.news.blueyonder.co.uk:
> OliverS wrote:
>
> The latest City Navigator 9 has far superior maps than any
> MetroGuide. I think MetroGuide is an old product that will soon be
> discontinued.
Up to version 8, MetroGuide NA and City Navigator NA had identical
maps; was this different for the EU products?.
There's currently no v9 of either NA product.
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Bert Hyman | St. Paul, MN | bert@iphouse.com
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| peter 2007-02-02, 10:33 pm |
| Bert Hyman wrote:
> lancs567@yahoo.co.uk (John William Hughes) wrote in
> news:rBEwh.4827$9S5.3229@text.news.blueyonder.co.uk:
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> Up to version 8, MetroGuide NA and City Navigator NA had identical
> maps; was this different for the EU products?
No, it's been the same for the EU products. But the releases of
MetroGuide have usually come out a little later than CityNavigator.
CN-Eur-9 was only released recently and I don't think MG-Eur-9 is out
yet..
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> There's currently no v9 of either NA product.
Yes, based on past experience I'd expect those to come out this summer
and fall respectively for CN-NA and MG-NA
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| Andy Waddell 2007-02-03, 10:33 am |
| How about also the difference between City Select and City Navigator? TIA.
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"Jack Erbes" <jackerbes@adelphia.net> wrote in message
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> OliverS wrote:
>
> MetroGuide maps will not autoroute when uploaded to a GPS. But MetroGuide
> will autoroute on a laptop that has a GPS input and the free nRoute
> software installed.
>
> So if you have a mapping GPS that will not do autorouting, MetroGuide will
> give you mapping for it. If you have a mapping GPS that is capable
> autorouting, and want to have detail maps that will autoroute, you need
> City Navigator.
>
> To further the confusion, there is an older version of MetroGuide (V4.0x)
> that will produce uploaded maps that will autoroute. And the uploaded
> MetroGuide maps that are normally not capable of autorouting can be made
> to autoroute if you use the software and somewhat complicated and
> technical process described here:
>
> http://garpatch.zexxo.net/ anleitun...
eng.html
>
> Jack
>
> --
> Jack Erbes in Ellsworth, Maine, USA (jackerbes at adelphia dot net)
> (also receiving email at jacker at midmaine dot com)
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| peter 2007-02-03, 10:33 pm |
| Andy Waddell wrote:
> How about also the difference between City Select and City Navigator? TIA.
For both the NA and Eur products, the differences were very minor.
Map detail and POIs were identical and both CS and CN support auto-
routing on both your PC and GPS receiver. However, there was a slight
amount of additional routing-related data on the CN versions. This
resulted in turn directions that sometimes more closely matched the
actual exit signs and better handling of some special situations (like
traffic circles in one release and the London congestion charging
arrangement). Then in version 7, the size of the individual map
segments was increased in CN but left smaller in CS which made CN less
compatible with models that had limited memory capacity. CS was then
dropped in version 8 and the segment sizes in CN were reduced slightly
to make that product at least nominally usable with the units that
have limited memory.
At this point the difference is academic since CS has been
discontinued and Garmin is now targeting CN toward all users of the
auto-routing models.
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| Jack Erbes 2007-02-03, 10:33 pm |
| Andy Waddell wrote:
> How about also the difference between City Select and City Navigator? TIA.
>
Hmmm. I don't know what the differences were. There was a time when
they had both of those and they both seemed to do the same thing. Then,
starting with City Navigator 8, there was no longer a City Select.
Maybe it was an evolution of the products.
Jack
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Jack Erbes in Ellsworth, Maine, USA (jackerbes at adelphia dot net)
(also receiving email at jacker at midmaine dot com)
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