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Jeddy
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 Posted: Sat Sep 23, 2006 7:56 pm Post subject: Hire of New Zealand maps |
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Is it possible to hire maps of New Zealand for a GPS - or buy a NZ GPS unit or maps in this country - preferably for not too much money?
I have the Garmin i3, but my parents have a Tom Tom which I could probably also borrow. |
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zogman
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Jeddy
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| Posted: Sat Sep 23, 2006 11:48 pm Post subject: |
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Indeed, although I don't think I could justify $300 for a few weeks use. |
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Skippy
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| Jeddy wrote: | | I don't think I could justify $300 for a few weeks use. |
I looked at that too and came to the same conclusion. There are some third party maps which are a bit cheaper but some aren't routable so not much use in my opinion.
Perhaps you could buy the maps and then sell them on eBay or trademe.co.nz
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mk_graham
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| Posted: Sun Sep 24, 2006 4:07 pm Post subject: |
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Found this site over here selling Metroguide NZ for $195 [£68]
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Skippy
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| mk_graham wrote: | | Found this site over here selling Metroguide NZ for $195 [£68] |
Correct me if I am wrong, but I think this is an earlier "Metroguide" map of NZ which DOESN'T support autorouting like the later "City Navigator" maps do.
Even then, I think the NZ City Navigator only has information about things like turn restrictions etc in the major cities. The smaller cities aren't such a problem though because they aren't that complicated...
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zogman
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dont forget skippy ,if loaded with metrowizz/img2gps, then metroguide will become autoroutable...
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Skippy
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| zogman wrote: | | dont forget skippy ,if loaded with metrowizz/img2gps, then metroguide will become autoroutable... |
Hmm, I think that's true for the Europe or USA Metroguide maps which are cheap because they are licenced for autorouting on the PC but not the GPS. (is that correct?)
The trouble is that I think the NZ ones don't have autorouting because the autorouting data simply doesn't exist for most of NZ.  I could be completely wrong though.
Maybe someone could buy MG NZ and try it out. I'd be very interested, although I'm probably not going to be back home to NZ for a little while yet. 
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zogman
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this is what it says in the info for this software...''Will automatically create point-to-point routes in MapSource and on your compatible Garmin GPS''...so it seems like it can autoroute like the uk/usa versions..
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