Garmin Roads and Recreation Canada Map CD-ROM (Windows)

by Garmin

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 6 x 6 x 1 inches ; 1 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• ASIN: B000050FGJ
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description

Find your way around the Great White North with this Garmin MetroGuide map CD-ROM. To use this CD-ROM, simply load the disc into your PC's CD-ROM, then transfer maps from the PC to your compatible GPS unit. This product contains a complete map of Canada with provincial highways, controlled-access highways, and primary roads in major cities. The Roads & Recreation portion of this product contains residential street-level detail for Montréal, Vancouver, Toronto, and Ottawa. It also contains detailed shorelines of lakes, rivers, and reservoirs.

Once you get to where you want to go, this MetroGuide helps you identify and track down points of interest including restaurants, bars, hotels, tourist attractions, shopping, emergency services, and much more.

Address lookup capability is available once downloaded to a compatible Garmin GPS unit. These functions are compatible only with the eMap, StreetPilot, ColorMap, and GPSMAP 295. The trip and waypoint management functions of this product work with nearly all Garmin GPS units, excluding the GPS100 family and panel-mount aviation units.

Product Description

MetroGuide Canada provides detailed maps and points of interest throughout Canada for marine and handheld Garmin devices that cannot display turn-by-turn routes. MetroGuide offers detailed maps using DMTI Spatial map data for all provinces in Canada including provincial highways controlled access highways and local roads. Search for almost one million points of interest including restaurants fuel stations lodging attractions and more. MetroGuide also includes trip planning software for your computer so you can save and transfer waypoints routes and tracks between your computer and device. - Contains detailed maps for all of Canada. - Contains DMTI Spatial map data. - Displays over 900 000 points of interest throughout the continent - restaurants lodging attractions fuel stations shopping and more. - Lets you search for addresses on the computer or your compatible Garmin device.

Customer Reviews

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Useful but lacking an awful lot..., October 11, 2001

By 

Yuri Kuzyk (Toronto, Ontario Canada) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Garmin Roads and Recreation Canada Map CD-ROM (Windows) (Electronics)

The fact that "all of Canada" is packed onto one CD should set off warning bells right away. This cd is certainly required for anyone with one of Garmin's "MAP" GPS's but don't expect to get the same level of detail available for the US.

There is metro info available for several large cities and you can have full functionality for address lookup and points of interest; however, for everything smaller than Ottawa you are out of luck...

Road detail goes down to the level of paved county roads and in some areas dirt roads as well but this leaves an awful lot of detail that you simply won't have available. Waterways are also available but again, the level of shoreline detail leaves a lot to be desired for most activities such as canoeing.

Hopefully Garmin will partner with a few more map-making companies from Canada and get a lot better information. I suspect that a proper job will require many CD's for each province much like SoftMap.

The software on the disk (MapSource) is rather low-level as well. You have very limited ability to do anything in here and you have extremely limited options for exporting the data as well. I'd suggest spending a few dollars on GPS Utility which is far superior for actually using your mapping GPS as it was intended.