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C40HP
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 Posted: Fri Mar 25, 2005 5:41 pm Post subject: Using Quest in Europe but unit purhcase in US |
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Hi, I'm travelling to Europe this summer and planning on purchasing the Garmin Quest in the US. Since the unit comes with Mapsource City Select North America I will have to purchase Mapsource City Select Europe.
My question is since the unit will come with an Americas Autoroute Base Map, will City Select Europe work with the Quest without the Atlantic Autoroute Base Map in it?
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Tim Buxton
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My Garmin GPS V is a US one and takes EU City Select maps without any problem, so I don't see why the Que should be any different.
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| Posted: Sat Mar 26, 2005 1:08 am Post subject: Using US Unit in Europe |
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| I have a US Quest unit and an Europe CitySelect map. I have planned some european routes in it without any problem. I will be using those routes for biking in Europe (Bourgogne-France) next september and I am sure there will be no problem. |
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| Posted: Sat Mar 26, 2005 10:21 am Post subject: Re: Using Quest in Europe but unit purhcase in US |
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| C40HP wrote: | | planning on purchasing the Garmin Quest in the US. Since the unit comes with Mapsource City Select North America I will have to purchase Mapsource City Select Europe. |
Yes, it will work fine.
The basemap is a rough map of major roads which is used if you don't have the detailed street maps loaded. As you note, there is an Atlantic (European) and America basemap and Garmin won't let you change the factory installed basemap.
In America you can use the basemap when routing between areas for which you have detailed maps loaded. In Europe you will need detailed maps of the area you are visiting.
The maps you load into the unit don't have to be joined up, you could load Paris and Rome for example without needing to load the areas inbetween.
Note that the European spec Quest has twice as much memory as the American one.
Maps of the entire UK are about 130 Meg.
Maps for London (within the M25) are about 12 Meg.
Have a good trip!
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I also have a Quest purchased in North America, the salesperson who sold me the unit told me that the maps for Europe wil cost me $300-$400, I found this price to be pretty steep. I just bought my Quest, so i'm still trying to figure out the maps and all that, does anyone know if there are other Europe maps i can download or purchase and not have to pay this much money?
It almost makes sense just to have my friend, who is looking a purchasing one, buy it from Europe, then we both can switch maps with eachother.... |
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| tg49ers wrote: | It almost makes sense just to have my friend, who is
looking a purchasing one, buy it from Europe, then we both can switch maps with eachother.... |
Strictly speaking, Garmin's licence won't allow you to do that.
However, if you brought a European specification Quest which comes with City Select Europe then you can activate the maps on both of your Garmin GPS units.
So, you could legally activate your American maps on your European Quest and your European maps on your American Quest.
Of course, you would be free to lend your Quest to your friend from
time to time. 
Unusually, buying the European Quest plus City Select USA is probably a better buy than the American Quest for anyone who wants to travel to Europe. The European Quest will not have the Americas basemap but it does have 243 Meg of memory so you could probably load the detailed maps for the entire area you need anyway.
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