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Date:         Wed, 16 Jan 2008 14:26:36 -0500
Reply-To:     jerry baldwin <jlbaldwin52@GMAIL.COM>
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From:         jerry baldwin <jlbaldwin52@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: What are my best PC GPS options?
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I've just got back from a 10000 K trip to Mexico and back (Buses to Zamora) and used a Garmin 350 and Streets and trips 2008 on the computer. In the USA and Canada the Garmin is excellent the 350 model has text to voice so it tells you the name of the street or Highway your to turn on. I found this feature to be invaluable especially in large older cities where the streets can be pretty close together. In Mexico nothing works 100% I bought Mexico maps from Bica Maps in California for the garmin but these maps are based on hiking maps and not really suited for a van. The Garmin would quit often try and send us up or down a mountain on a hiking trail. The new Streets and Trips has excellent coverage in some of the larger cities but only the main highways elsewhere. Even the maps we bought in Mexico don't agree with each other, the GPS is good to show you how badly your lost. In two tears of using he Garmin I've inly come across 3-4 roads that were not in the in its database .

Jerry

-- Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbour. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. ~ Mark Twain


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