Garmin Roads and Recreation 2000 U.S.A. CD-ROM (Windows)

by Garmin

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 6 x 3 x 1 inches ; 1 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• ASIN: B00004VX3I
• Item model number: 101021500
• Average Customer Review: 2.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description

Garmin's United States Roads & Recreation CD-ROM includes trip and waypoint management functions that allow you to transfer waypoints, routes, and tracks between your PC and nearly all Garmin GPS units. Roads & Recreation contains highways, interstates, and local, county, and residential roads for all 50 states. It displays U.S. interstate-exit information such as service stations, gas stations, restaurants, hotels, campsites, hospitals, banks, and more. It also shows shoreline detail for lakes, reservoirs, and rivers, with icons indicating boat ramps, dams, marinas, public facilities, mile markers, and first aid stations. In addition, it points out U.S. nautical navigational aids such as day beacons, radio beacons, RACONs, fog signals, lights, and buoys. With a map-download-compatible Garmin GPS, you can simply transfer maps from this CD-ROM to your GPS unit via a PC.

Note on compatibility: The trip and waypoint management functions of this product work with nearly all Garmin GPS units, excluding the GPS 100 family and panel-mount aviation units. The map-download feature of this product is recommended for use with the GPS III Plus, NavTalk, GPS 12MAP, and GPSMAP 162 and 168. A blank Garmin data cartridge is needed to upload map data to these compatible units.

Product Description

PUMP UP THE DETAIL ON YOUR GPS UNITS BASEMAP WITH MAPSOURCE CD-ROMS. JUST CONNEC

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

65 of 66 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Make sure this product is appropriate for your GPS, December 16, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: Garmin Roads and Recreation 2000 U.S.A. CD-ROM (Windows) (Electronics)

I purchased this product to plot and provide turn-by-turn directions for trips and to load maps to my Legend. This product does not provide turn-by-turn directions. When I called the Garmin software help line, the suggestion was made to purchase the Metroguide USA product since it had all functions of R&R and more. Seems the R&R was the first software product offered and is for low memory units (1mb). This is an obsolete product and since I opened the package--it cannot be returned. If you have a newer GPS unit with more than a mb of memory, don't bother with this software. It is not designed for your unit. Don't look for this info in the manual--it's not there. Call the help line and you may find your money was wasted.

21 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Adequate but old - missing even some major roads, January 15, 2002

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JRH "j5094" (Maryland United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Garmin Roads and Recreation 2000 U.S.A. CD-ROM (Windows) (Electronics)

Roads and Recreation works well with a mapping Garmin GPS, but has not been updated in a long time. The current and original version 3.00 is missing some major highways built since 1999 and some since 1998. If you don't mind occasionally driving across empty countryside (on your mapping GPS), then this product is pretty good. For roads before 1999, major and minor, it works well as a download into a mapping Garmin GPS. For PC-only use it does not compare with other products such as those from Delorme (Street Atlas)or Microsoft. Garmin should be honest about its MapSource products and tell the user when they were last updated. This is especially true for its basic marine software, Waterways and Lights. Software sells fancy GPS units. In the case of Garmin, adequate best describes the software. It's right up there with a 3-year old telephone directory. Most everyone is listed, except...

32 of 35 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Garmin Roads & Rec CD Rom USA -- Garmin 295 color GPS, January 28, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: Garmin Roads and Recreation 2000 U.S.A. CD-ROM (Windows) (Electronics)

This CDROM has many streets, but is a little out of date. I live in Las Vegas, and we build streets here faster than most maps can keep up. But I know there is an electronic map source company right here in town, that keeps all the map makers up to date overnight. (TV news showed them and how they work.)

Therefore, I'd expect Garmin to get with the program and update more often. They have an update source for aviation data just about monthly, (I know.. I keep the current Jeppesen data base in my Garmin 295 color GPS for my airplane.) They could just as easily update this software with something you download to provide just the changes since the CDROM was issued.

Most important: To upload any of the maps from this CD ROM, you need a RAM cartridge for your GPS unit! Nothing told me this, not even the software documentation nor the GPS manual. There is only very limited memory built in the GPS units.

This CD ROM has the ability to transfer major sections of the country (it would take about 8 sections, as I recall just to get California), and you can select how much you want to transfer. I'd get at least a 64MB RAM cartridge. The new 128MB RAM would be better, but at $250 (discount) to $350 (Garmin retail), its expensive!

Captain Dan
Las Vegas