Garmin Roads and Recreation CD ROM (Austria)

This CD-ROM contains motorways, national and regional thoroughfares, roundabouts, railroads, and local roads in many areas. It also displays points of interest, such as restaurants, gas stations, lodging, shopping, entertainment, and emergency services. You also get shoreline detail of lakes, rivers, streams, and canals.

Other points of interest include details on everything from border crossings to gas stations. And with a map-download-compatible Garmin GPS, MapSource will allow you to load map detail for addresses and business listings.

The current map coverage for Austria includes about 93,800 km of roadways (75.3% of all roads), 558 municipalities, 553 major cities in street-level detail, and the area inhabited by up to 61.3% of the Austrian population.

Downloads from European MapSource Roads & Recreation CD-ROMs are limited to a maximum of 32 MB. The trip and waypoint management functions of this CD-ROM work with nearly all Garmin GPS units, excluding the GPS100 family and panel-mount aviation units. The map transfer feature is only compatible with the following units: GPS III+, 12MAP, NavTalk, GPSMAP 162, GPSMAP 168 Sounder, StreetPilot, StreetPilot ColorMap, StreetPilot III, GPSMAP 295, eMap, eTrex Vista, and eTrex Legend. A blank Garmin data cartridge is needed to upload map data to some of these units.

For those units that accept the map-transfer feature, you can also select individual maps in areas of interest and download the selected maps to a compatible Garmin GPS device. Simply connect your Garmin GPS device to your PC using a PC interface cable. Select the map areas on screen and, with the click of the mouse, the information downloads to your GPS. Some units require a GARMIN data card to download.