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Garmin if you listening, how about producing a City Navigator that covers all the cruise port cities in Asia. Way way too expensive but worth every penny when walking and trying not to get lost in the back streets of London, Rome and Athens while guilding my directionally challenged wife. Nothing beats a hand held Garmin GPS with a great city map in a foreign city.
The maps have been accurate and took me right where I wanted to go. Very good product. I've made several trips around Germany on a motorcycle with a Garmin GPS 60c.
The data is still very accurate. Excellent product. I have managed to navigate through Europe on my trip without any issues.
It took me around and through Sydney. I worked around the problem by turning off the IQ3600 after getting the exit instruction before entering a roundabout and turning it back on after exiting the roundabout. I used this map set to drive the entire east coast of Australia from Cairns to Melbourne.
And Australia is full of roundabouts. The problem may not be the map or my Garmin, since I have discovered I was two IQ3600 releases behind and one release claims to fix some navigation aborts. The Garmin would always abort in the same place if reentering a problem roundabout.
I LOVED IT. I used the map in my Garmin IQ3600 and had one major problem; the IQ3600 would abort on entering about 1/3 of the roundabouts. I will find out if I ever return to Australia.
I also used it to drive from Alice Springs to Ayers Rock. This software made the trip a delight.
We found that the American English voice (Jill) butchered the pronunciation of German street names so switch to the German voice if you understand German. I recently used this product in my Nuvi 360 for three weeks in Austria and Germany and found it highly accurate and the equal of the guide for the USA in terms of driving directions and POI's. You must insert the card, turn on the device, then go to Tools>Maps>Map Info and check the Europe Navigator. If you know no German (or other local languages as the case may be), then the American pronounciation will probably be useful in recognizing street names phonetically, and of course you will get the driving directions in English.The Garmin card has absolutely no instructions regarding how to boot it. It got us through the winding streets of Vienna, Munich and other towns and highways along the way with no problems. We were also in Budapest, though without a car, and it appeared to have a very complete map of that city.
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