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Garmin GPS Cycling Maps

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I bought a Garmin eTrex Vista Cx (snappy huh?) as a device to track and plan road rides on my bike. What I didn’t realise was that the £200 only buys you the device, not the maps. Well, you get a map with about four roads in London. Useful.

To be fair, the built in altimeter, speedo, tacho etc functions are fine for stats geeking (when combined with the slow, painful, but useful MotionBased), but I really wanted to be able to explore, confident that I’d always have a map home. I’ve been unable to find simple advice on maps on the internets so I hope my costly mistakes will be of use to someone…

Don’t Do This…

Don’t do what I did I buy the Memory Map of Great Britain. Even though its amazingly detailed, you can’t transfer the maps off the CD. So all you can do is plan routes and look at pretty maps. It’s an expensive, off-line, Google maps. To add insult to injury it’s locked to your PC, you can’t even sell it on to another schmuck.

In fact, don’t buy any of the official CDs from Garmin. They are horrible to use, very expensive, require a PC to work (which invariably crashes when using Parallels on a Mac) and the DRM is horrid.

Don’t bother with opensource/free/cheap mapping. I tried Smelly Biker’s maps. They aren’t nearly detailed enough for road cycling in the...

Larrys Garmin nuvi 660 demo. The best GPS, First on YouTube

My new Garmin GPS is so cool I just had to show someone but I live in the woods and my girl friend isn't interested in geeky cool things - well until I told her it plays audio books and chick music.

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From: Mary Schmich
Chicago Tribune, United States - May 7, 2008
Every time I walk past the big and often nearly empty Garmin GPS store on North Michigan Avenue—coordinates 41 degrees 53.65 minutes north latitude,

Garmin, Tomtom and Magellan Dominate Latest Consumer Reports GPS
Kansas City infoZine, MO - May 8, 2008
Yonkers, NY - infoZine - Despite the influx of several new brands and models, longtime GPS brands-Garmin, TomTom and Magellan-are still making the best

enviro-friendly tech for Canadians on the move
Canada.com, Canada - May 8, 2008
Investing in a global positioning system (GPS) unit, such as a TomTom or Garmin product, can help you find where you're going with turn-by-turn instructions

North metro police blotter
Minneapolis Star Tribune, MN - May 6, 2008
A Garmin GPS and CDs were stolen. Burglary. A business in the 300 block of W. Main Street was broken into and a computer, battery charger and a set of keys

Now GPS Can Tell You Where The Cops Are
Wired News - May 7, 2008
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