Just bought a Garmin I3 street pilot on ebay, been told that you can put European maps on using a card, the Garmin brochure lists the cards by country however there is no more info than that, tried searching the net and didnt find anything has anyone got one or any info on these European maps Also the brochure says you can download speed camera locations is this done from the Garmin site? Any other tips about the Street pilot would be great pete
Arrived this morning really pleased overall, only took it to work and back and to the garage so far but it worked really well, map is very clear and the voice prompts are well timed, wasnt expecting much for the price but its really surprised me even took a few deliberate detours off the route and it quickly recalculated a new route Going up to Edinburgh next month for the weekend so I'll give it a good test then, my girlfriend will be delighted as there'll be no more arguing about her unique approach to map reading, Pete
try this for info on speed cameras http://www.pocketgpsworld.com/uksafetycameras.php i use this for my NAVMAN PDA i will search some of my other pages I use for info on euro maps for the Garman for you. I got the NAVMAN euro pages and had great fun driving through Paris in mid Saturday rush with no paper map and then down to the south of France.
the i3 is a good little gadget for the money. Due to the simplicty of the design, it doesn't matter that it's not got a touch screen. When you're loading the csv files on, use the ones that have separate csvs for each speed limit. You'll want to copy all the csvs into a single folder on your computer before you run the garmin POI software (download it from garmin's website). So you'll end up with 24 csv files (8 for Gatso's, 7 for mobile speed cameras, 6 for SPECS cameras, and single csvs for the temporary, redlight, and continental cameras). I also copied the custom bmp icons to the same folder, as well as the overlay files. Each time you upload new POI's it deletes the old ones, so you have to copy everything into a single folder before running the POI utility.
Does anyone have the POI speed camera database they could send me? I had a look at http://www.pocketgpsworld.com/uksafetycameras.php but you have to pay to subscribe before you can download it
