GPS V v. Quest

[JAY]

I've been looking at getting a Garmin GPS V off ebay to get me into the joys of GPS but a couple of questions;

- what size is the screen? Someone told me that is the same as the Quest which was the one thing that put me off that.


- 19MB memory doesn't seem very much. Roughly what area of Uk mapping could I install?

 

[richie]

Southend...

 

[richie]

Or the whole of london

 

[ebbo]

With Roads & Recreation (street level mapping) near half the country (100 map sections) but it doesn’t support routing.

With City Navigator, it averages just over 3 map segments. Centred on Birmingham, an area 80x60 miles = 16mb

 

[ebbo]

Quest;
Display: 2.2"W x 1.5"H, 256-color, (160 x 240 pixels) high resolution, transflective TFT

GPSV;
Display 2.2”W x 1.5”H, 4 level Gray LCD, (160x256 pixles)

Despite having the same size display, and a similar number of pixels, the Quest’s display is far superior to the GPSV, being colour it’s much easier to make out detail.

 

[schnauzer]

I've just migrated from a V to a quest and from my point of view there are three main differences.........

1) it talks to you ( which I don't use on the bike anyway )

2) 243mb of memory........ this is the main reason I bought it, I got fed up with loading various mapsets into the V to cope with trips I was planning.

3) Internal battery rather than 4 AA's which makes the quest a load smaller and lighter than the V

 

[JJ Crafford]

Hi guys

I've got a thread going next door, but thought I'll jump in here too to improve my chances: What do you know about the Garmin GPSMAP 60C? Can that do turn by turn navigation for bike use on roads? It has 56mb I think.

 

[Rampant Stallion]

2) 243mb of memory........

How come mine's listed as -

Map Storage: Internal; 115 Megabytes of uploadable map storage

Does this mean it uses 128MB for the base map and operating data stuff?

 

[Deleted account W]

2) 243mb of memory........

How come mine's listed as -

Map Storage: Internal; 115 Megabytes of uploadable map storage

Does this mean it uses 128MB for the base map and operating data stuff?

That sounds like the American specification, Europe gets the 243mb model.

 

[ebbo]

The American Quest has 115 megabyte internal memory; the European Quest has 243mb, an additional 13MB is used for the base map.

As Whatton says, it sounds like an Americas version. Dare we ask were it came from?

 

[Rampant Stallion]

You can ask....

It came from Maplin last week!!!

 

[ebbo]

Hmm… I would just check were your reading your info from, it would be very surprising if Maplin were selling dodgy Americas GPS's.

Somewhere in the menu settings you might be able to turn the mapping off so only the base mapping shows. If it’s an Americas model there will be little if any roads shown for the UK.

 

[Deleted account W]

Or just try loading over 115mb of mapping on it

 

[Rampant Stallion]

It says quite clearly in the Owner's Manual that it has 115 MB of uploadable map storage .
It came with a CD of City Select - Europe v6. Now, I've not loaded all of this into the Quest, only my local area. So, presumably, if I pan-out to an area beyond this, I will come onto the base map, and if that has little or no info, I have a Yankee version, right?
I'll then try loading 115MB or more, and see what happens.
I'll let you know.

 

[Deleted account W]

Yep sounds like the thing to do. If you find you've got the US version then I think a visit to Maplins would be in order.

Pic of the box mine came in, is this the same as yours?

 

[gavinbell]

dont panic

my euro quest has a yankee manual...... so just check the unit. If it came with euro cs then it should be alright...

see ya in a while folks....gonna give mine a test in romania tomorrow!

Gavin

 

[Rampant Stallion]

My box reads exactly the same as yours, so hopefully it's just the manual that's a Yankee version and not the unit.
I'll try stuffing it with loads of MBs tomorrow, and hope it doesn't explode!

 

[Rampant Stallion]

Right, I've just crammed 158.6MB into it - all the maps of the uk & Eire, (124 of 'em) without any apparent problems. so it must therefore be the Euro version methinks.

If I zoom right out and skip across the Atlantic, it only shows a very basic map of the US, and at 200 miles shows as 'overzoom'.

If I then hop back across the pond and study France, it shows far more detail. I can zoom in here to 3 miles before I 'overzoom'.

But I appear to have a problem. When I then zap across to Ireland, I see Tralee, but when zooming in on this, it disappears at a zoom of 3 miles. How come? Just down the road, Kilarney will go right down to 500 feet with street names showing and everything!

 

[samwise]

Incomplete Irish mapping, I'd imagine - Ireland isn't as well covered as the UK, for example, by the digital mapping company that Garmin licences from.