Help Me Im Stupid

PaulC555 · Occasional Visitor Joined: Feb 09, 2006 Posts: 8

Being a complete idiot and just about knowing how to switch my i3 on...can anyone tell me where i need to purchase a new card with a map of France on it. Really confused at all this Mapsource/cartography rubbish...all i want is to life one card with the uk map on out and insert a map that will get me round france....anybody ??? keep it simple.. 8O

Aitch2 · Posted: Thu Feb 09, 2006 9:53 pm Post subject:

Right...3 choices:

1) Pay a lot of money on eBay for a US CD (CitySelect Europe) which can be used to load a compatible map of France onto a new blank SD Flashcard. The CD in question cannot be purchased in EU - about £150 all-in??

2) Wait for Garmin to release France as an add-on (new card) for the i3 - about £90 - from March/April??

3) Use the 'Atlantic Basemaps' covering most of Europe (but main roads only) - which are already in your i3 - but can only usefully be used via creating custom POIs...(as town / city searches won't work...)

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RODTROTTER · Regular Visitor Joined: Oct 30, 2005 Posts: 175

you need to buy a blank flash card and map of France you get a unlock code with the maps it lets you put it on 2 units cards are cheap :D maps are not Crying or Very sad

newtosatnav · Regular Visitor Joined: Nov 24, 2005 Posts: 66

Two points;

1) How can you create a POI abroad?

2) If there is a POI on the i3 will it navigate to it?

Aitch2 · Posted: Thu Feb 09, 2006 11:33 pm Post subject:

1) You need to know the long/lat of the POI and save it into a *.csv file in the correct format.

2) Yes - but using major roads only.

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PaulC555 · Occasional Visitor Joined: Feb 09, 2006 Posts: 8

thanks for the help folks..looks like the best bet is to multimap the major towns on our route, get the long/lat and log them as poi's.....probably make an ass of it but anyway...back to the foldy up map it is...

PaulC555 · Occasional Visitor Joined: Feb 09, 2006 Posts: 8

sorry mods...didnt think the alternative word for the rear would be censored...sorry.. Embarassed

ride4smilesjonny · Posted: Fri Feb 10, 2006 12:16 am Post subject:

So,
you can create a poi for france, but if it only uses major roads as is, without updating, how can it get you to the poi if the nearest major road is say 12 miles away from your poi???? Confused

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newtosatnav · Regular Visitor Joined: Nov 24, 2005 Posts: 66

OK, I have found the Lat/long using multimap, imported as a favourite using EasyGPS, checked it's in the right place using show map but as it tries to calculate the route I get the message - Rote Calculation Error:Not Enough Memory Available.

Any thoughts?

Skippy · Posted: Fri Feb 10, 2006 2:10 am Post subject:

mhb · Regular Visitor Joined: Dec 21, 2005 Posts: 155

Hi PaulC555, what you're looking for are at http://www.gpsw.co.uk/cats/cl3_306.html?Skip=10& and I think have been on sale for several weeks now.

PaulC555 · Occasional Visitor Joined: Feb 09, 2006 Posts: 8

thanks mhb...exactly what i was looking for......
simple and easy ...yee haaaaa
cheers mate..

GeckoGirl · Posted: Fri Feb 10, 2006 7:33 pm Post subject:

It's great they've finally brought them out - but they seem quite pricey at £90 each (incl vat) if you want more than one area in europe though.

The full Europe map is "only" £160 inc vat so less than 2 pre-loaded cards, with cash left to spare for a blank flash card to load them on. You can get the full Europe CD as part of a car navigation kit, such as this one:
http://www.globalpositioningsystems.co.uk/garmin-auto-navigation-kit-europe-for-76ccs-description.html
so is probably more cost effective to buy that if you need more than one of the pre-loaded cards.

Tubal · Occasional Visitor Joined: Oct 05, 2005 Posts: 48

You could always try E-bay. I just bought Mapsource City Navigator V6 and then bought the V7 update. All for less than £100

Under_canvas · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jan 04, 2006 Posts: 7

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