Garmin MapSource MetroGuide of Denmark and Sweden for Garmin GPS Units (CD ROM) (B000059ZZY)

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Editorial Review:

The Garmin MetroGuide CD-ROM for Denmark and Sweden contains trip and waypoint management functions that allow for effective trip planning. MetroGuide Denmark and Sweden contains extremely detailed city maps with street-level information with address-lookup capability when downloaded to a compatible Garmin GPS device (see below for list of devices).

This software allows you to view color maps on a desktop PC, with zoom and pan functions for easy map browsing. You can create waypoints, routes, and tracks, and transfer them between your PC and nearly all Garmin GPS devices (see below for compatibility).

This CD-ROM also contains motorways, national and regional thoroughfares, roundabouts, railroads, and local roads in many areas. It also displays points of interest, such as restaurants, border crossings, petrol stations, lodging, shopping, entertainment, and emergency services. You also get shoreline detail of lakes, rivers, streams, and canals.

Other points of interest include various details, from border crossings to gas stations. And with a map-download-compatible Garmin GPS, MapSource will allow you to load map detail for addresses and business listings.

The current map coverage for Sweden includes about 296,600 km of roadways (67.4% of all roads), roughly 202 municipalities, 53 major cities in street-level detail, and the area inhabited by up to 43.2% of the Swedish population. The northernmost coverage includes Amal, Bengtsfors, Ed, and Skagarrak. The current map coverage for Denmark includes about 85,000 km of roadways (100% of all roads), 100% of municipalities, 11 major cities in street-level detail, and the area inhabited by up to 26.7% of the Danish population.

Downloads from European MapSource MetroGuide CD-ROMs are limited to a maximum of 32 MB. The map transfer feature is only compatible with the following units: GPS III+, 12MAP, NavTalk, GPSMAP 162, GPSMAP 168 Sounder, StreetPilot, StreetPilot ColorMap, StreetPilot III, GPSMAP 295, eMap, eTrex Vista, and eTrex Legend. A blank Garmin data cartridge is needed to upload map data to some of these units. The trip and waypoint management functions of this CD-ROM work with nearly all Garmin GPS units, excluding the GPS100 family and panel-mount aviation units.

Customer Reviews:

Avg. Customer Rating: 2.5 / 5.0

Do not buy! Out of date and unsupported.:

Garmin do not make this any more. All the European maps have been combimed into a single CD package.

DO NOT BUY! - OUTDATED PRODUCT:

I made the mistake of ordering this product along with a new Garmin Etrex Vista a week before a UK trip. Garmin does not sell it any more. It's a WINDOWS 95, 98, NT 4.0 product. Not even NT 4.1, not less Windows 2000 or XP. The packaging mentions only GPSes that Garmin used to sell, none that they currently sell. It's a 1999 product, based on 1995 map data. ALL of the products with a European country name in them (France, Great Britain, etc) are OUTDATED! DO NOT BUY! See the Garmin site.

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Urban Explorer:

I used this product in conjunction with the eTrex Vista unit, on a recent vacation to the UK. Traveling by train, I used the product mainly to navigate on foot in the various cities I visited. I found the pre-programmed waypoints of tourist sites, train stations, and even London tube stops, to be extremely accurate. As for the accuracy of the waypoints I uploaded by street address, it varied bit, but was still good enough to easily get me where I needed to go. My only real disappointment was with the... more info

Very useful in France:

The Metroguide software for France is more useful than the US version. The maps seem more up to date, and, due to the difficulty of finding anything in France, much more useful. I managed to find our company's new building in a new town by punching in the address, and I was able to use my emap to find it in 10 minutes from the train station. It also seems to have up to date restaurant and attraction info for Paris and other areas.