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jimj40
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| Eldar wrote: | | Again it's not down to some mysterious "GPS companies", it's basically down to your local Garmin dealer to produce the maps. If they can't be bothered to do it for their own market.... need I continue? |
'A Spaniard once asked a Greek if his language contained a word like manana . The Greek replied, "Well, we have something similar but not with quite the same sense of urgency..." '
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jimj40
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| Posted: Thu Nov 16, 2006 11:15 pm Post subject: |
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| Kai exoumoumen ton idio onoma kai olous! |
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tsdinos
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| Posted: Thu Nov 16, 2006 11:46 pm Post subject: |
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Actually the reason i went to garmin and not tom tom is that they do have some data for greece, while tom tom doesnt! at least garmin has athens maps at street level! Other companies like mio and destinator have maps for greece as well.
I also didnt mention that i bought my gps from UK, so at UK's market very few GPS with europe's maps include greece! Unfortunately other gps companies' maps doesnt have that much difference, apart from the fact that they include a few more streets at thessaloniki (which is the second largest city in greece) and a few more major roads.
Garmin's maps are ok for athens, although its not aware for many oneway roads and traffic regulations.
Eventually i believe they will get better maps for greece and include rural areas, after they finish with the rest of the europe first! |
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Eldar
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| Posted: Fri Nov 17, 2006 12:33 am Post subject: |
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| tsdinos wrote: | | Actually the reason i went to garmin and not tom tom is that they do have some data for greece, while tom tom doesnt! |
That is incorrect, there is a map of Greece on my TomTom Go910 |
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tsdinos
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| Posted: Fri Nov 17, 2006 2:14 am Post subject: |
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I got my nuvi 350 last march. I believe the tom tom rival then it was the 700 and 910 came one month later. Still it was more expensive and i've read better comments about nuvi to various websites.
I went to tomtom website and it doenst advertise that includes greece. Is there a street level map for athens, with the names? If not, then it is not a big deal and therefore it cannot claim it covers greece or part of it. the city navigator europe v8 has main roads for as far as iraq and russia! |
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Eldar
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| Posted: Fri Nov 17, 2006 2:43 am Post subject: |
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| tsdinos wrote: |
I went to tomtom website and it doenst advertise that includes greece. Is there a street level map for athens, with the names? |
yep, and the house numbers as well
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the city navigator europe v8 has main roads for as far as iraq and russia! |
that's basemap and I've seen maps of Iraq and Afganistan sold on the net. |
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tsdinos
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| Posted: Sat Nov 18, 2006 5:43 am Post subject: |
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thats odd.. why they dont advertise it then?
if you go to tom tom site and to to europe's coverage you'll see a big gap next to italy!
I looked for tom tom actually when i was at greece and noone seems to sell them or ever heard of them.
what is your personal opinion for tom tom compared to garmin? i've heard various opinions about this |
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Eldar
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| Posted: Sat Nov 18, 2006 11:18 am Post subject: |
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| tsdinos wrote: | thats odd.. why they dont advertise it then?....
what is your personal opinion for tom tom compared to garmin? i've heard various opinions about this |
To start with TomTom doesn't support Greek language (or any other language which is not "Latin-based") Interface is much better than Garmin's. That's it really. |
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| Posted: Sat May 10, 2008 11:06 am Post subject: Re: Is there a map converter for garmin? |
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| tsdinos wrote: | Hi all
I currently have the garmin nuvi 350 with the city navigator europe v8 map preinstalled. It has coverage of Athens in Greece but there are very few roads at the rest of the country. I found out that there are some more detailed maps for Greece from ngi www.ngi.gr
I found and downloaded those maps but they are for the destinator only. Is there any way to convert these maps to work on my garmin unit? And if yes how would i upload them?
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I would love to get the destinator maps of Greece from this website but sadly cannot read Greek - any chance you could post the specific URL for me to download them.
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