Garmin City Select North America v5 - MapSource City Select North America v6 includes detailed maps throughout the U.S., Canada, and Puerto Rico. This product is included with the purchase of a Garmin GPS V Deluxe, iQue 3600, cf Que 1620 , GPS 18, and Quest and is also available for purchase as a stand-alone product. Now with Â?Unlock WizardÂ? to guide you through the unlock process Trip and waypoint management feature lets you transfer waypoints, routes, and tracks between your Garmin GPS and your PC Before you can download map detail to a data card or directly to your compatible Garmin GPS, you must Â?unlockÂ? the MapSource City Select North America v5 CD-ROM. Simply follow the instructions on the included certificate to unlock the entire CD-ROM. Next, download the data to a data card or to your compatible Garmin unit.
MapSource City Select v7 for North America includes full-coverage maps throughout the United States as well as select Canadian coverage. This updated product provides access to all regions at no extra charge. It's included with the purchase of a Garmin GPS V Deluxe or iQue 3600 (so don't buy this if you already bought those unless it's a gift!), and it's compatible with the GPSMap 196.
Version 5 features include trip and waypoint management functions (which work with nearly all Garmin GPS units, excluding the GPS 100 family and panel-mount aviation units), full coverage for metro and rural areas throughout the contiguous U.S., supplemental coverage of Alaska and Hawaii, and select coverage of Canada.
You'll enjoy detailed maps containing highways, interstates, and business and residential streets, with turn restrictions, speed categories, and other navigation features.
Especially convenient is the ability to create automatic, point-to-point routes in MapSource, the GPS V Deluxe, iQue, and GPSMap 196. Over five million points of interest include food and drink, lodging, attractions, entertainment, shopping, emergency services, post offices, camp grounds, movie theaters, and other spots.
Expanded Canadian coverage in v6 includes: Alberta (Edmonton, Banff, Calgary); British Columbia (Kelowna, Vancouver, Victoria, and Whistler); Ontario (London, Toronto-Golden Horseshoe, Ottawa-Gatineau, Stratford, and Winsdor); and Quebec (Montreal, Ottawa-Gatineau, and Quebec city).
Note: North America City Select v7 CD map data must be unlocked prior to use, which can be done via Garmin's unlock pages or by phone. When using a locked MapSource product, the real-time track plotting function will work only with a valid unlock code for the GPS unit being used.
Customer Reviews:
Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0
Discontinued product:
Garmin tells me this product is being discontinued, replaced with City Navigator (v8 is the current version for CN presently). I got a GPSMAP 76CS, and City Select v6 in 2004; the product worked well, and I've applied numerous free MapSource upgrades from Garmin, which keeps improving the underlying application. For example, fairly recently Garmin provided an integration with Google Earth, that loads waypoints, tracks, etc from MapSource into Google Earth. But the City Select data is getting out of date as... more info
Not as good as old version!:
This newer Garmin City Navigator v7 DVD software is inferior to ordered older discontinued City Select v7 in too many ways to descibe. I paid a stout 100% premium for discontinued seller (greatestsale) described Garmin City Select v7 CD-ROM Map - North America and seller shipped me current Garmin City Navigator v7 DVD which I could have purchased directly from Garmin for half of what I paid seller. This newer version map segments are much too large as to be unusable on smaller screen devices. Sellers... more info
Worth the money:
I won't get into the whole "Gotta use Garmin maps with Garmin units", I will just say that if you have a Garmin GPS, this is the software to get. It is expensive, but worth the money, in my opinion. Very few glitches with the auto routing and combined with the 60c, it reroutes rather quickly. Easy software to install and easy to manipulate through the software.
Better'n sliced bread:
I bought a Garmin 76CSx and this mapping software just before leaving for a trip from Kansas City to New Orleans. Although I learned a lot along the way, the operation seemed to be pretty intuitive. It got me all around New Orleans, even with a lot of street signs missing from hurricane Katrina. I was very impressed with the "recalculation" feature. Several times I either missed a turn or was unable to turn due to debris, etc. Within a very few hundred feet, the GPS software had replotted and displayed an... more info
