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| Garmin Roads and Recreation CD ROM (USA) | 
 enlarge | Brand: Garmin
Category: CE
This item is no longer available
Avg. Customer Rating:  8 reviews
Platforms: Windows Nt, Windows 98, Windows 95
Media: Electronics
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Size: USA
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 6 x 3 x 1
MPN: 101021500
Model: 101021500
UPC: 753759016739
EAN: 0753759016739
ASIN: B00004VX3I
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 LOOK OUT May 3, 2003
12 out of 12 found this review helpful
I have a Legend and wanted additional map details for my unit - so I purchased this software. Well, I got all the map details but no functionality. The documentation is bad and so is the online help. Worst of all you can not even look up a street address - even with a paper map I can look up the general area of a street. What's up with that? I would not recommend this product at all buy the Metroguide.
 Good, but.... April 30, 2003
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
This really is a step up on the standard map that comes loaded in the eTrex Vista, and when driving around with the GPSr attached, I never have to ask for directions. However, in a large growing area like where I live, there are always new subdivisions popping up, and this can't keep up with them. The software is over 3 years old, and while it makes inter-city travel a breeze, and familiarizes you with new places, you'll always still need a map close by for reference, especially if you drive any amount for a living.
Make sure this product is appropriate for your GPS December 17, 2002
62 out of 63 found this review helpful
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.
Garmin Roads & Rec CD Rom USA -- Garmin 295 color GPS January 28, 2002
32 out of 35 found this review helpful
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
Adequate but old - missing even some major roads January 15, 2002
21 out of 21 found this review helpful
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...
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