Customer Reviews

Garmin City Navigator Mexico Map CD-ROM (Windows)

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We used this map to drive down to Veracruz and then up along the coast to Campeche. We found the map useful but outdated - several important highways, some of them several years old, were missing. By the time we got to Veracruz, we purchased a Guia Roji road atlas to supplement the GPS. Where this map shines is in the city and town maps - we were surprised that even remote mountain villages had their streets mapped. Even with the GPS and paper atlas, it is possible to get really lost, for instance we spent the better part of an hour trying to cross Tampico - the GPS helped a lot in showing us where we were within the city but the changed street directions and construction zones were too much for the routing to work. Another caveat, and this may be an issue with GPS navigation in general, but be aware that in mountainous regions the routing software will blissfully send you across a mountain range instead of around it. This happened to us and luckily we had good weather and plenty of gas, but the 2 hour segment turned into more than 3 hrs of very intense driving on deserted mountain roads. Overall the map is worth the price but you will still want a new road atlas to plan your inter-city routes and use the GPS for its time of arrival feature as well as driving within the cities.

I was pleasantly surprised with the coverage of middle sized towns (100K people). This coverage was excellent.
I was unpleasantly surprised at the coverage of the highways outside towns. Lousy.
I was flabbergasted with the lousy routing capability. My suggestion is to not even try to use it.
All in all a GuiaRoji is a much better bet.

The maps are a real help in one of the largest and complex cities in the world. Some are areas not mapped but overall is very good. Why to arrive late of risk your self? With this been said, you have to be careful since Amazon does is confused between a CD and SD. With the CD you can load the map in the PC and you can plan your rout in advance. They send me the SD by mistake. At the beginning, the purchase was redirected to Crutchfiel and I see no problem on this. But then when the SD arrived, I found that Crutchfiel did not have the CD, so all of this was a mess. I can not return the SD because I am using it. Amazon is not longer the primary seller so you may be careful. In conclusion, the map is good the purchase redirection and the confusion between CD/SD are not. See the advertising, the picture is a SD but the title says CD.

I purchased this for my new Garmin 1690. We traveled to San Felipe in Baja California via Mexicali. In Mexicali, I noticed areas adjacent to Highway 5 that were blank on the GPS, but there clearly was development with roads etc.

I did a search for lodging(and other POI's) when in San Felipe and the closest were across the border in the southern US. I thought I may have gotten a bad disk, but Garmin customer support said there were no POI's in the San Felipe area.

If you want to navigate major highways, Mexico City Navigator might be worth it. Don't expect to be able to use it to find POI's like you can in the US.

Took it out of the box and put it into my Garmin. I was able to see maps in Mexico even from here (Iowa City). I was in Guadalajara and it worked just perfect! I was telling the taxi driver which way to go and the name of the streets! I also took it to Toluca and Mexico City and it worked beautifully. I recommend it heartedly. It was a good price too!

I must say I was rather disappointed with this product. I needed maps of rural Baja California for running the Baja 1000. This program showed nothing other than the main highway which was easy to find on my own. It provided some good info in large cities but again I didn't really need that. My main problem was with Amazon. I ordered the Gramin Mexico SD card with express shipping just a few days before my trip. The package arrived on time but was not the SD card as my order and may e-mail said. It was the Gramin Mexico CD. So I had to run out and buy a blank SD card and cable to connect my Gramin to my computer. By the time I was done I had spent 3 times what the program would have cost me at Best Buy. I guess I learned a good lesson. But running the Baja 1000 was a priceless experience!!!!

I bought a Garmin City Navigator NT Mexico microSD and I have received a CD Garmin City Navigator !! It was awful to instal in the laptop and I can't load the software in my Garmin Nuvi 770.... The cd was open and I don't want to use....again
The few thing that I can see in the laptop instalation was a old maps of street of Mexico City and Monterrey with low resolutions on maps and it not have upgrade....is easy to lose in the streets using this maps to drive.

The unit is OK, what I had problems with is with the order. The box it came in was missing a cable to charge the item. In order to work it MUST be connected directly to my bike's battery. The adapter provided was not the adequate version and so I have had trouble loading software since I must either charge the unit by having it hooked on the bike or at my desk being loaded with map software. It's a bummer.

If you purchase this unit be careful to ask for the right a charging cable.