Re: Euro City Select on US Garmin GPS?
- From: Hans-Georg Michna <hans-georgNoEmailPlease@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 03 Aug 2005 19:03:31 +0200
On Thu, 28 Jul 2005 21:30:14 +0200, "df" <nospam@xxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
>With a European unit, the basemap is European. The Basemap is a not very
>detailed but routable map that covers the all continent. If you need to go
>from area A to area B, you can download detailed map around A and detailed
>map around B, and you do not need these 2 maps to be adjacent, because you
>can leave the connection between the 2 detailed maps to the basemap, which
>is routable. This way you save a huuuuge amount of memory, but you cannot do
>that if your unit has the wrong basemap. If you are living in Europe, it is
>therefore worth spending a few more Euros to buy a European unit ...
df,
for me this is nonsense, because one crucial use of the GPS is
freeway traffic jam circumvention. That's exactly the thing the
base map cannot do.
The base map is rather useless.
Hans-Georg
--
No mail, please.
.
- Follow-Ups:
- Prev by Date: TomTom Mobile 5 and Orange C500
- Next by Date: Re: Poland Maps for my iQue3600
- Previous by thread: Re: Euro City Select on US Garmin GPS?
- Next by thread: Re: Euro City Select on US Garmin GPS?
- Index(es):
Relevant Pages
|
