Garmin City Navigator Europe NT - UK/Ireland (010-10691-00)

by Garmin

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 4 x 4 x 1 inches ; 3.2 ounces
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• ASIN: B000L3APBK
• Item model number: 010-10691-00
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (37 customer reviews)

Product Description

"Microsd card, city navigator nt, UK"

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

47 of 47 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Essential for your Trip to Ireland, March 28, 2009

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G. Henkel-Johns (Northern Minnesota) - See all my reviews
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We just got back from Ireland. This Garmind UK and Ireland City Navigator SD card turned out to be essential to the enjoyment of our trip. It is more difficult than you can imagine, to sit in the right side of the car, driving on the left side of extremely narrow and twisting roads, including round-abouts (like a rotary, but going in the opposite direction) with multiple exits, and few street name signs. If we had been using paper maps, it would have been very difficult, as there were few shoulders on the roads, so there would have been no place to pull over to look at a map. A few times I did pick a wrong road, when the Garmin was running just a hair behind on the map, from where we physically were, but it immediately corrected the error. We never got lost, whether we were driving in a larger city, or on almost a cow path in the country side. This probably saved us some arguments about getting lost, and certainly reduced the stress in navigating.

At times the Garmin was slower than normal to load maps and find satellites, but no matter that the sky was normally cloudy, it did work. However, we did find that the POI's were severely lacking, and even some of the towns did not exist on the Garmin. Even so, just for the ease in navigating, it was worth it. So order one of these SD cards and take your trip in confidence.

PS. the Guinness Beer is much better than any Guinness you can get on tap in the United States. Also, the pubs are the place to do your eating. The atmosphere is quaint, and the food is hardy and reasonably priced. Have a great trip.

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars worked well, May 22, 2008

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Matthew L. Burris (virginia) - See all my reviews
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Amazon had a great price for this chip. It was approximately half the price on the Garmin site. The GPS did recalculate occasionally, but this was not a big issue. This beat the heck out of trying to read a map of the tiny little roads in the irish coutryside (with surprisingly fast speed limits). I recommend this product.

11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Don't Go To Ireland Without It, But Beware of Shortcomings., July 7, 2009

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Adventure Scott (Beige Flatlands, IL) - See all my reviews

Great product in general, but as is typical with Garmin's databases, it is years out of date, and does not have sufficient information about road types. This results in poor decisions regarding best routes to take which can have annoying or disastrous consequences in Ireland. We just finished (7/3/09) using the latest version of this product in conjunction with a Garmin 260W GPS on an 11-day, 1200 mile trip.

Ireland's roads are narrow in the extreme -- single lane rural roads are often two-way and lined with stone walls -- and poorly marked, so the database is crucial in confirming routes and giving positions. Unfortunately the system very often chooses poor routes, particularly near towns and cities because of its lack of current information and information about road type. In all fairness, the database had a wealth of information about small, rural tracks that might not be present on many paper maps, and made traveling some of the coastal roads much easier.

Ireland's recent economic boom has resulted in faster bypass routes and roads near most of the large cities, but the database does not reflect these. The older routes inevitably run through the congested market centers of towns, and slow travel by many hours.

Many of the new "dual carriageway" (divided highway) roads are not present in the database. This can lead to a great deal of confusion when trying to decipher the signage while getting conflicting information from the GPS, and can result in choosing slow, congested roads while watching traffic whiz by on a nearby freeway.

Missing a turn and allowing the GPS to reroute you may have you bouncing through the countryside on a single-track farm road since the database does not discriminate between road types. This has limited amusement value. Further, when returning to Dublin from Donegal, it routed us through Northern Ireland on slow, rural roads rather than a less-direct but much faster route via new freeways slightly more south that did not require crossing the border.

RECOMMENDATION: The best navigational method we developed was to have a current paper map purchased in Ireland (even these may be somewhat out of date) with a sharp pair of eyes helping the driver and looking for signs, and the GPS suggesting routes but always giving the position to confirm where we were. We were able to choose much faster routes when necessary this way.

All of the other comments about the joys of travel in Ireland are spot-on. It's a wonderful place to travel.