Re: Trip to Europe (France and the UK)

Newby wrote:
Greetings all.

I am planning a trip to France and the UK next year and plan to
acquire a GPS to take with me for driving and walking use. I have an
iQue 3600 and a GPS V that I use in the USA and never travel without
one or both and see this trip as a good excuse to buy a more up to
date unit. The GPS that I take to France and the UK needs to use
replaceable batteries (AA size preferred) have a color display,
mapping capabilities, expandable memory (or enough to load Paris and
the surrounding area the whole of the UK) and of course detailed
maps. An external antenna would be nice but is not a requirement.
Voice prompts (in English) would also be nice but are not required.

Are there any packages (GPS with datailed maps of France and the UK)
available in the USA that I should consider? If not a package, which
GPS would the group recommend and which maps would would the group
recommend?

I will go to Garmin's site and look at the map offerings.

Thanks for any help.

I live in the UK, and personally use a Garmin GPSMAP60C with Mapsource City
Select Europe. There are of course more dedicated setups such as Tom Tom,
but I find the convenience and pocketability of the 60C means I can relax
when leaving the car, knowing that the car will not be broken into to steal
the instrument, a growing menace in European cities. It has no voice prompts
of course, but I don't find that to be a problem.

The 60Cx has the added versatility of external memory cards, therefore more
memory, but I can fit virtually all of the CS maps of the UK into my 56mb of
internal memory. To cover Europe you would need the Cx.

Dennis.


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