US 2720

[cookie]

if my US based mate buys this 2720. will he be able buy & use eupropean mapping on it when he comes over here?

 

[John Armstrong]

If he has the software already ie CN EU and WorldMap (for something like the base map). Otherwise IIRC then buying the EU mapping isn't available to us in the UK seperately from a GPS

But, unless it's a real bargain I wouldn't advise doing it, although I did with a 2610. That's because you need to add on the import tax, shipping and then the VAT onto that. When you've done that the numbers aren't quite as good. Unless they need the POI element of the 2720, why not buy a 2610 at about the same cost?

 

[cookie]

as stated, he's based in the US. occasional use in europe is the issue.

 

[alimey4u2]

For a definitive answer try here.........

http://www.garmin.com/contactUs/salesSupport.jsp

 

[John Armstrong]

as stated, he's based in the US. occasional use in europe is the issue.

RTFQ Easier then, he can buy the EU CN over there, unless of course his "friend" has a spare licence. Not that I'm advocating him doing that of course He'll still find putting on the world map to be a usefull base map substitute.

 

[mrTickle]

I'm not sure about a 27xx but you can't on a 28xx. I was going to get myself a half price American 2820 and load the European CN onto it. Unfortunately the 2820 will only let you load 640Mb of extra data into it and for full coverage it needs to take over 2Gb of mapping data. I know you can load full mapsets onto a 2610 and the new Zumo takes a 2Gb flash memory card, so in theory you should be able to load different full mapsets onto that as well.

That old chestnut " European mapsets are more expensive" always puts a smile on my face....

 

[cookie]

640mb is most/all of france though

 

[mrTickle]

640mb is most/all of france though

Ah... but one never knows the full path ahead...

 

[John Armstrong]

I'm not sure about a 27xx but you can't on a 28xx. I was going to get myself a half price American 2820 and load the European CN onto it. Unfortunately the 2820 will only let you load 640Mb of extra data into it and for full coverage it needs to take over 2Gb of mapping data.

Maybe that's 640mb spare, because if the US / EU CN is burnt in permanently, how would you update it when ver 9 etc etc comes out?

I can't see Garmin missing out on the update money bandwagon somehow. Unless they reckon they'll be updating the 2820 with the 29xx before EU v9 comes out

 

[st13phil]

Maybe that's 640mb spare, because if the US / EU CN is burnt in permanently, how would you update it when ver 9 etc etc comes out?

I can't see Garmin missing out on the update money bandwagon somehow. Unless they reckon they'll be updating the 2820 with the 29xx before EU v9 comes out

From what I can make out based on comments on another forum where Americans are updating their devices from CN7 NT to CN8 NT, the update DVD causes the CN7 NT data on the GPSR to be overwritten. In the example above, it wouldn't be a map update, but rather an additional set of map data that's being processed.