Tenerife / Canary Islands

chickenstu · Occasional Visitor Joined: May 19, 2006 Posts: 11

Hi,

I considering an HP / Michenlin GPS bundle and wondered about coverage of the Canary Islands...mainly Tenerife.

Are there any up to date maps for this area available. Would they come as standard with the HP bundle or can they be downloaded separately as with tomtom city maps?

Thanks in advance

Stu

tanda · Posted: Fri May 19, 2006 11:08 pm Post subject:

Hi Chickenstu, with the standard bundel you get UK and Irland, thats it, you can buy maps, but not sure about Canary Islands and Tenerife, have a look on their web site.

http://www.shop.viamichelin.co.uk/csasp_index.asp?id=141
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chickenstu · Occasional Visitor Joined: May 19, 2006 Posts: 11

Hi,

Thanks for your answer but I wasn't wanting to buy a complete map. I know tomtom sell 'city maps' and apparently 1 city map will cover the whole of tenerfe. They are only 5 euros for a city map. I wondered if michilen did something similar

metroace · Posted: Sat May 20, 2006 7:55 am Post subject:

I have the full set of European maps and this includes the Canaries. If you were to purchase the set with Spain, I am sure it would be included as the Canaries are an integral part of Spain (as opposed to a colony or territory).

However, yet again, can I point out that you are asking questions in a ViaMichelin forum yet metnioning TomTom. Are you in the correct forum? Or do you realise that ViaMichelin requires ViaMichelin mapping?
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chickenstu · Occasional Visitor Joined: May 19, 2006 Posts: 11

metroace · Posted: Sat May 20, 2006 10:04 am Post subject:

What if you were a Spaniard only wishing to buy the Orkneys? Sorry, you would have to buy the whole of the UK.
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chickenstu · Occasional Visitor Joined: May 19, 2006 Posts: 11

metroace · Posted: Sat May 20, 2006 12:57 pm Post subject:

There was no attitude intended, sorry that you saw it that way.

I checked the TomTom site and see that yes, you can buy a map of just the Orkneys for €4.95. But I also searched some more and found that their map of Spain specifically excludes the Canaries but that you can buy maps of Tenerife for €4.95 although it appears that you might have to buy at least two to cover the whole island as there appears to be a map set for Arona and another for Santa Cruz de Tenerife.

Whatever you decide, enjoy your travles. My GPS will be guiding me around the highways and byways of Ibiza for the next two weeks. It's been over 10 years since I've been and I wonder how much has changed.
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chickenstu · Occasional Visitor Joined: May 19, 2006 Posts: 11

Hi, sorry I took things the wrong way!

Either City Map from Tomtom apparently covers all of Tenerife...I just wish Michelin would do something similar to these small maps as I must say I'm really tempted by the versatility of a PDA but would like the all in one cradle for a tidier install.

Thanks

metroace · Posted: Sat May 20, 2006 1:05 pm Post subject:

If you go for TomTom, be careful about leaving the cradle in view in your vehicle. They are the latest reason that cars are being broken into as a cradle often means the unit is hidden somewhere in the car. Remember to take the cradle as well. Funnily enough, PDA cradles do not lead to cars being broken into as PDA users take their PDAs with them and the thieves seem to know this.

I agree that VM should consider smaller maps. This year, my travels take me to Ibiza and Berlin/Potsdam with another visit to Tenerife early next year. It would have been good just to have the option to buy a couple of smaller add-on maps rather than having to buy the whole of Europe.
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chickenstu · Occasional Visitor Joined: May 19, 2006 Posts: 11

Are the maps interchangeable between units. If we bought 2 HP Navigator PDA kits, would we need 2 of each map or could they swapped. Are they activated to an individual unit?

Thanks

metroace · Posted: Sat May 20, 2006 1:12 pm Post subject:

Once the maps are downloaded onto your computer, I believe that you can install the map sets you wish onto any PDA running the VM software (subject to remaining memory).
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chickenstu · Occasional Visitor Joined: May 19, 2006 Posts: 11

OK, 1 final question (honest!)..I wish the support number was open weekends!

On this page....

http://www.shop.viamichelin.co.uk/csasp_index.asp?id=139

I can buy a Spainsh map but it also says...

"Please note that the Maps and Route Planning software for PDAs is not compatible with ViaMichelin Navigation."

So these wont work on an HP PDA Bundle in the same way that the supplied UK & Ireland maps would?

metroace · Posted: Sat May 20, 2006 1:28 pm Post subject:

If I understand correctly, these are route planning products that cannot link to GPS products such as ViaMichelin. Think of them as being like Microsoft AutoRoute which until a few years ago also could not be linked to GPS.

So okay for planning a route, but you would need a passenger to follow it and tell you where to go. And then no recalculation of your route when it all goes horribly wrong, which it is prone to do when you are abroad!
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