Garmin Roads and Recreation CD ROM (USA)
July 26, 2010 by admin
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Garmin Roads and Recreation CD ROM (USA)
- For download-compatible Garmin GPS
- Complete atlas of highways and interstates
- Contains national, local, county, and residential roads for all 50 states
- Displays interstate-exit and service information
- Transfers waypoints, routes, and tracks between your PC and nearly all Garmin GPS units
PUMP UP THE DETAIL ON YOUR GPS UNITS BASEMAP WITH MAPSOURCE CD-ROMS. JUST CONNECGarmin’s United States Roads & Recreation CD-ROM includes trip and waypoint management functions that allow you to transfer waypoints, routes, and tracks between your PC
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List Price: $ 116.95
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I purchased this product to plot and provide turn-by-turn directions for trips and to load maps to my Legend. This product does not provide turn-by-turn directions. When I called the Garmin software help line, the suggestion was made to purchase the Metroguide USA product since it had all functions of R&R and more. Seems the R&R was the first software product offered and is for low memory units (1mb). This is an obsolete product and since I opened the package–it cannot be returned. If you have a newer GPS unit with more than a mb of memory, don’t bother with this software. It is not designed for your unit. Don’t look for this info in the manual–it’s not there. Call the help line and you may find your money was wasted.
Review by Bill Marrs for Garmin Roads and Recreation CD ROM (USA)
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Garmin has us over a barrel, so we must pay big bucks for unimpressive software like this. I use this with my Garmin eTrex Vista (great product).Pros: Essential street level map detail, good way to save/edit waypoints and routes, good overall coverage of USA.Cons: Lacks course-plotting directions…, is out of date, maps are slow to load (be sure to be selective and set your serial port to the fastest speed, otherwise it might take hours), Lacks moderm Win95 style interface (right clicking and such), overall a little clunky to use, wish it had a way to quickly center/zoom on an address/location. Building a route is harder than it should be.The MetroGuide Software is twice as [much money], but probably addresses some of the flaws of this CD. Be careful though, the Metro Guide is in the process of being upgraded, don’t get the old one.
Review by JRH for Garmin Roads and Recreation CD ROM (USA)
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Roads and Recreation works well with a mapping Garmin GPS, but has not been updated in a long time. The current and original version 3.00 is missing some major highways built since 1999 and some since 1998. If you don’t mind occasionally driving across empty countryside (on your mapping GPS), then this product is pretty good. For roads before 1999, major and minor, it works well as a download into a mapping Garmin GPS. For PC-only use it does not compare with other products such as those from Delorme (Street Atlas)or Microsoft. Garmin should be honest about its MapSource products and tell the user when they were last updated. This is especially true for its basic marine software, Waterways and Lights. Software sells fancy GPS units. In the case of Garmin, adequate best describes the software. It’s right up there with a 3-year old telephone directory. Most everyone is listed, except…
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This CDROM has many streets, but is a little out of date. I live in Las Vegas, and we build streets here faster than most maps can keep up. But I know there is an electronic map source company right here in town, that keeps all the map makers up to date overnight. (TV news showed them and how they work.) Therefore, I’d expect Garmin to get with the program and update more often. They have an update source for aviation data just about monthly, (I know.. I keep the current Jeppesen data base in my Garmin 295 color GPS for my airplane.) They could just as easily update this software with something you download to provide just the changes since the CDROM was issued. Most important: To upload any of the maps from this CD ROM, you need a RAM cartridge for your GPS unit! Nothing told me this, not even the software documentation nor the GPS manual. There is only very limited memory built in the GPS units. This CD ROM has the ability to transfer major sections of the country (it would take about 8 sections, as I recall just to get California), and you can select how much you want to transfer. I’d get at least a 64MB RAM cartridge. The new 128MB RAM would be better, but at $250 (discount) to $350 (Garmin retail), its expensive!Captain Dan
Las Vegas
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I have a Legend and wanted additional map details for my unit – so I purchased this software. Well, I got all the map details but no functionality. The documentation is bad and so is the online help. Worst of all you can not even look up a street address – even with a paper map I can look up the general area of a street. What’s up with that? I would not recommend this product at all buy the Metroguide.