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

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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.