PanEuropean
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A co-worker of mine just bought a SP 2610 here in Switzerland. The gross price (including 7.6% Swiss sales tax) was CHF 1959, which is equal to ₤850. The Swiss will refund the sales tax if you get a form stamped at the border (airport or land border) on the way out, so this makes the net price of an Atlantic (European Basemap) SP 2610 here in Switzerland ₤ 786. I used Oanda cash currency conversion rates, you should probably add 2% if you plan to pay with a credit card.
Not sure how this compares to the prices you face in the UK, but I thought it may be of interest to those of you domiciled in the UK.
Remember that if you are comparing American prices to European prices, the American SP 2610's come with a 128 meg CF card, and the European ones come with a 256 meg CF card. Because of the greater complexity of street patterns in Europe, the larger card is needed. The rule of thumb for calculating memory requirements for the latest versions of CityNavigator is about 3 mb per million population in North America, and about 4.5 mb per million population in Europe.
North American street patterns tend to be much simpler - grids, for the most part - and there are very few laneways and pedestrian paths on North America. European street patterns are much more complex, with more attributes attached to each roadway, and far more pedestrian and bicycle paths per square mile.
PanEuropean
Not sure how this compares to the prices you face in the UK, but I thought it may be of interest to those of you domiciled in the UK.
Remember that if you are comparing American prices to European prices, the American SP 2610's come with a 128 meg CF card, and the European ones come with a 256 meg CF card. Because of the greater complexity of street patterns in Europe, the larger card is needed. The rule of thumb for calculating memory requirements for the latest versions of CityNavigator is about 3 mb per million population in North America, and about 4.5 mb per million population in Europe.
North American street patterns tend to be much simpler - grids, for the most part - and there are very few laneways and pedestrian paths on North America. European street patterns are much more complex, with more attributes attached to each roadway, and far more pedestrian and bicycle paths per square mile.
PanEuropean
