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Nothing beats a hand held Garmin GPS with a great city map in a foreign city. 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. Garmin if you listening, how about producing a City Navigator that covers all the cruise port cities in Asia.
I've made several trips around Germany on a motorcycle with a Garmin GPS 60c. Very good product. The maps have been accurate and took me right where I wanted to go.
I have managed to navigate through Europe on my trip without any issues. Excellent product. The data is still very accurate.
I will find out if I ever return to Australia. And Australia is full of roundabouts. This software made the trip a delight. 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.
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. 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 also used it to drive from Alice Springs to Ayers Rock. I LOVED IT. It took me around and through Sydney.
The Garmin would always abort in the same place if reentering a problem roundabout.
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. We were also in Budapest, though without a car, and it appeared to have a very complete map of that city. You must insert the card, turn on the device, then go to Tools>Maps>Map Info and check the Europe Navigator. 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. It got us through the winding streets of Vienna, Munich and other towns and highways along the way with no problems. 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.
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