| Garmin City Navigator Europe NT for Detailed Maps of Eastern and Western Europe (DVD) |  | Brand: Garmin
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MPN: 0101088700
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| • | * Now with full country coverage for Greece * With over 8.5 million kilometers of road network across 41 countries in Eastern and Western Europe * Including 1.7 million points of interest and over 1.1 million city, town and village destin |
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SOFTWARE, MAPSOURCE CITY NAVIGATOR, Manufacturer: GARMIN USA INC, Model Number: 0101088700 Garmin City Navigator Europe NT for Detailed Maps of Eastern and Western Europe (DVD)
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 The Best Maps - but the install, could they make it more difficult June 10, 2009
Daniel G. Lebryk
24 out of 24 found this review helpful
The reason you are thinking of this product is a trip to Europe. You purchased a Garmin GPS with only the NA maps on it. And now you want to navigate Europe during your next vacation. Well, this is the exactly right software to buy. The detail Garmin gives for Europe is absolutely stunning. In major cities every single street in existence is here. The maps will get you where you need to go, even those hidden treasures. Remember, European cities don't change all that much over the years. It's the highways leading in and out that change - but that little bistro in Paris, the great pasta in Rome, the awesome reindeer in Stockholm, that pub you love in London - they haven't moved for years, their address is still the same. So yes, go ahead and buy this software. It's expensive, obscenely expensive - but you will never get lost.
August 2, 2009 Update: Lane Assistance DOES NOT work with this map set. I have this loaded on a Garmin Nuvi 765T which does lane assistance in NA. During this trip to France, nowhere did lane assistance appear (Paris would have been the most likely or the French highway system - never showed up once). There is also no 3D data for those lovely sort of 3D buildings you get in major NA cities. A tip for anyone using this in Paris - drive slowly, have a good idea of where you are going before you drive, and expect a lot of recalculating - new streets come up very very fast. Its easy to miss those streets. Nuvi does a graceful job of recalculating your trip. One last tip - use google maps to search for your destination, once found use the "Send" function in the map balloon to send that location to your GPS (it works like magic).
Oh but the install. Watch out. No it's not a nightmare, but it is not intuitive.
1) If you have a low priced Garmin that does have an SD slot - consider buying an inexpensive 1 or 2Gb SD card. Simple enough and will set you back no more than twenty dollars. That will mean you will never run out of storage space for the maps. Performance will be identical to the unit memory or the SD card. So spring for an SD card.
2) The current shipping version of this software is City Navigator NT 2010, and yes it is the correct version. The list price on Amazon is different from the list price at Garmin (so you might think this is the wrong software). Amazon offers a really good discount over the Garmin site. Take advantage.
3)Install:
a)The program on the DVD installs a program called Mapsource on your computer. Once the install has happened, no sofware was put on your Garmin yet.
b)The next step is to run MapInstall (you'll have to chase after that in your start menu under Garmin). The first thing it will tell you, Navigator Europe NT is locked. Plug in your GPS and wait until windos says the unit is conencted. Click on the "unlock on line." Your browser should find your GPS. You then enter the serial number from your GPS (it's on the GPS label right in front of you) and the Letter Number code from the back of the DVD package. Then click on Unlock. On the website, you will get a message that the maps are unlocked.
c) Next Step is where all h e double hockey sticks can break loose. If you are lucky and Garmin isn't monkeying with their website, the software will unlock and all will be good. Back at MapInstall, click OK, and the software will be unlocked. If you have the bad luck I did, the software will remain locked. One hour on hold and two support people later, the software support person walked me through the MyGarmin Website to find the Unlock Code number. If this happens to you - go to MyGarmin, log in, click on the MyMaps tab. Find your GPS, click on Details. Now a very detailed window will open, and the 25 digit unlock code will be listed for Europe NT. Copy that code into memory. Now run Mapsource, a pop up window will appear indicating that Europe is locked. Click on Skip. Then go to the Utilities menu, click on Manage Maps. Then click on the Unlock Regions tab. Now this is the fun part (not intuitive at all), click on Add, then in the pop up window paste your 25 digit unlock code here (that code is not the product key). Click OK, OK... and voila, your Europe NT map is now unlocked and you can proceed with the next step. Fun eh?
d) Now that your Europe map is unlocked - run MapInstall. More than likely you will see a very ugly map of Europe in a square. Just click on the upper left corner outside the square and drag down to the lower right corner to highlight all the region maps available. Make sure your GPS is plugged in your comptuer. Then click to send the maps to the GPS. Depending on your computer the map index build may take a long time or 5 minutes on a very fast quad core. Then the maps will transfer to your GPS, takes about 15 minutes.
Does all this sound intuitive? No. Not at all. Is it a pain in the rear, yes you betcha. Garmin really needs to improve the whole updating Nuvis. The software they are using is very very old - I used this many years ago to load maps onto an eMap where memory was outrageously expensive and extremely limited (before a trip I could only load the region I was travelling in). With cheap unlimited memory, this should be simpler now.
These maps are beautiful, have great detail, and will get you where you need to go in Europe. If only the install could be more intuitive.
Oh, now that you own this software, you'll probably also want to buy the NuMaps Lifetime for Europe and North America (this is lifetime of the device updates to the maps). If you already own NuMaps NA (Garmin nüMaps Lifetime North America Map Updates for detailed maps of the United States, Canada, and Puerto Rico- write to Garmin, they might offer you a reduced price to upgrade that subscription to include Europe, they made a tasty offer to me.
July 8, 2009 Update - type nuvi tips and tricks into your favorite search engine. The first hit is a resource on how to better use your Nuvi. It's a fantastic site with hundreds of tips.
If you ALSO need the mapping software for your PC, then get the DVD--not the SD card February 7, 2009
Traveler (SC, USA)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
If you need the mapping software ON YOUR PC also, then this is the one you want -- not the SD card with the pre-loaded maps.
I like the MapSource program that comes with the DVD, so that I can sync waypoints from my laptop to my Garmin before I travel. It's much easier than entering addresses from the Garmin's on-screen keyboard. Plus I can double-check the routes before hopping in the car.
You'll need a 2GB blank SD card to store the European maps, since the Garmin doesn't have enough room when other maps (e.g., North America) are already loaded in the internal memory.
Don't worry too much about reviews that say it is difficult to install the DVD maps to the Garmin. It does take some time (30-45 minutes), but for me it was worth the advantage of getting the the MapSource program.
What's the fuss? April 1, 2009
Sal Paradise (Niskayuna, NY, USA)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
After reading some of the negative reviews here, I was a little nervous about buying this software upgrade, but went ahead and bought anyway.
Installing the Europe maps to my device went off without a hitch, and it's pretty intuitive. So . . . I am having trouble seeing what the fuss is about. Unlocking the map(s) was easy and installing the software to my C:/ drive was a snap. You have the option of installing maps for just the areas you plan to visit or for Europe as a whole -- just be aware that all of Europe takes up 203 separate maps. And that was the most tedious part -- clicking on 203 separate maps.
Once that's done, however, just click "upload to device" and stand back! A word to the wise -- I chose the "all Europe" option, and mine took 2-1/2 hours to upload.
Highly recommended, and better than renting a GPS from the car rental agency once you get there.
Install isn't great but the maps... paid their value 10x October 18, 2009
S. Shah (Los Angeles, CA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I just spend a fast 7 days doing the following trek with family: Geneva - Lausanne (via lake front) - Zurich - Heidelberg Germany - Brussels (via Luxembourg) - Brugge - Amsterdam - Frankfurt - Geneva. That's about a 1000 km covered and not ONCE was I confused on the streets. Even "old town" or downtown areas in major cities like Cologne we had no issue... this bad boy once it found the signal knew exactly how to route us out... plus picked up traffic (FM) on my nuvi 655!!
Well worth the money.. if you plan on driving around Europe.
The bad part: Is the install software.. first of all, I had to make room on my GPS to fit North America + Europe. I got rid of all the non-English voices and few of the car icons. The hardest part is figuring our how to drag and select the whole Europe map to include every country you want to transfer over... I did this on a mac, while the interface is clumsy, it worked.
98% for Brussels and Amsterdam May 18, 2009
E. Bobowski (United States)
I bought this product for use in my Garmin Oregon 300 during a recent trip to Brussels and Amsterdam. My (unscientific) estimate is that it was accurate about 98% of the time, with most of the inaccuracies occurring on the actual position of train and tram tracks - which frankly don't matter much since you can't steer the train anyway! :)
All in all, it worked great for autorouting as well as geocaching, and I am very satisfied with my purchase.
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