Quest and World Map

[gfspencer]

I’m coming to Europe this spring. I plan to spend one week driving around Germany and another week riding around Spain and France in the Pyrenees. Here’s my problem. I have a Garmin Quest (the U.S. version with less memory). I am thinking that it does not have enough memory to hold the maps of Germany, Spain and France that I will be exploring if I try to download City Select Europe. What about downloading the less detailed World Map? (I know it doesn’t have much detail but it would at least get me going in the right direction.) I think that I could get most of the areas that I want to navigate downloaded on my Quest. (I don’t want to carry a laptop and spend my evenings transferring maps.) Any suggestions?

 

[Twotter]

One idea could be to just load the maps for selected areas on your trip, maybe a big city if you're going to one or a section of the alps etc... You could then rely on the base map for when you're blatting along the motorways.

 

[PRR]

You could then rely on the base map for when you're blatting along the motorways.

His basemap doesn't cover Europe.

gfspencer, I think World Map is quite dated and doesn't support automatic routing but it could of course still be of some help. If you are pretty sure of where You're going you could use a combination of World Map and very selectively loaded detailed mapping for the places where you will be looking for hotels and so on.

But if you don't have CitySelect Europe already I'm not sure it is worth buying considering the limitied use with not that much memory and not being able to reload maps.

 

[Whiteliner]

I've done this the other way round - Europe base map with World Map loaded for use in the USA. Lack of autorouting is a big problem, but as a car passenger with the GPS and a paper map it works fine. Riding a bike would be a different kettle of fish!

I've been putting off buying the North America City Select disk (or whatever it's called now) although they are available on eBay at a price.

Yes, the World Map is somewhat out of date but it takes very little memory (and it's inexpensive). I have the Garmin GPS V with only 19mb so this is a major issue. City Select Europe V7.0 is almost unuseable on the GPS V due to the memory it takes, but V5.0 is fine (V7.0 geographical map areas are much larger than V5.0 too so you end up with coverage that you don't need but have to have to cover your route).

I'm thinking about upgrading to a Quest for the larger memory and colour screen. I'd really like a Garmin 2610 but it's just a bit too expensive.