| Alan Burnstine 2005-05-19, 12:22 pm |
| David Lee wrote:
> "Dave Langlands" <david@langlands.eclipse.co.uk> wrote in message
> news:xNCdnQVefOqElRj
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>
> I have noticed recently that several US eBay dealers ARE advertising
> Garmin receivers with European/Atlantic Base Maps. However, as Dave
> said, most don't and you must make sure that it is genuinely a
> European Base Map that is being offered and not an Americas one with
> some uploaded Mapsource fragments added.
>
Of course, not having auto-routiung or a basemap does not make the device
useless. it will still tell you where you are in any number of coordinate
systesm and datum that can be used with a paper map, and the map page will
still show your relative position to known waypoints. It may not be as
usefull, but if you can get a good price, it will be at least as useful as
any non-mapping GPS.
Personally, I rarely, if ever use the America's basemap for auto-routing.
It simply is not detailed or accurate enough to really be of much use to me.
On the other hand, America City Select costs a third or less then the
European version, so it is not nearly as big an issue for me to purchase it.
Alan
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