mrTickle
Registered user
.... you need the European City Navigator CD for auto routing, and also the Worldmap CD. Without the Worldmap loaded, no European basemaps are displayed on the GPS from 5 miles zoom and above.
All you get is an outline of the country, with the names of the major cities -there are no roads displayed at all. However once the Worldmap is loaded, everything is back to normal and the roads are displayed properly at all zoom levels.
My GPS arrived with a 128MB memory card and that's big enough to download the European basemap from the Worldmap CD and also from Cornwall to Glasgow from the European City Navigator CD. I’ve ordered myself a 1GB memory card, which will let me load all of Europe into it, right to street level.
My North American 2610 came with a 110/240 volts mains adapter in the box, so there were no problems regarding power and everything else is exactly the same as the Atlantic unit.
The routing is brilliant -- it calculates a 500 mile route in about 25 seconds, and if I go off-route, it re-calculates a new route within 20 seconds. For shorter routes (say 5 miles), it creates them in about 4 seconds and off-routes are recalculated in about a second. The address lookup works fine even though it's a North American 2610. I find that the touchscreen is a lot easier to use than my old Streetpilots buttons -I can create a route & be navigating within 10 seconds.
Over £500 can be saved by buying a North American version of the 2610. I was lucky because I managed to source my copy of the European City Navigator and Worldmap software for no additional cost. If I had to purchase the software, it would have been a tougher decision for me getting a U.S 2610. For anyone owning a Streetpilot III, and who's not registered a second GPS on it, £ 500.00 is a considerable saving to be made. Worldmap doesn't require an unlock code so you can source that whatever way suits you best
The only downside I've had in owning my 2610 so far, is that no handlebar mounts are available yet. They should be here around March, so hopefully it shouldn't be too much of a problem.
All you get is an outline of the country, with the names of the major cities -there are no roads displayed at all. However once the Worldmap is loaded, everything is back to normal and the roads are displayed properly at all zoom levels.
My GPS arrived with a 128MB memory card and that's big enough to download the European basemap from the Worldmap CD and also from Cornwall to Glasgow from the European City Navigator CD. I’ve ordered myself a 1GB memory card, which will let me load all of Europe into it, right to street level.
My North American 2610 came with a 110/240 volts mains adapter in the box, so there were no problems regarding power and everything else is exactly the same as the Atlantic unit.
The routing is brilliant -- it calculates a 500 mile route in about 25 seconds, and if I go off-route, it re-calculates a new route within 20 seconds. For shorter routes (say 5 miles), it creates them in about 4 seconds and off-routes are recalculated in about a second. The address lookup works fine even though it's a North American 2610. I find that the touchscreen is a lot easier to use than my old Streetpilots buttons -I can create a route & be navigating within 10 seconds.
Over £500 can be saved by buying a North American version of the 2610. I was lucky because I managed to source my copy of the European City Navigator and Worldmap software for no additional cost. If I had to purchase the software, it would have been a tougher decision for me getting a U.S 2610. For anyone owning a Streetpilot III, and who's not registered a second GPS on it, £ 500.00 is a considerable saving to be made. Worldmap doesn't require an unlock code so you can source that whatever way suits you best
The only downside I've had in owning my 2610 so far, is that no handlebar mounts are available yet. They should be here around March, so hopefully it shouldn't be too much of a problem.
