City Select vs. Navigator

I currently have a Garmin V and am looking at getting a new Garmin
GPS. I notice some come with City Select and some come with
Navigator. What is the qualitative difference between the two? I
currently have City Select. Will I be happy with Navigator?

Navigator is the 'premium' product if you like of the two. They share the
same map and POI data, but Navigator has slightly more detail in some
areas, such as announcements of forthcoming turns etc.

If you can justify the extra cost, go for CN, but CS will work almost as
well.

Ivor

Ivor Jones wrote:

There is another *very important* difference between the two.
Beginning with Version 7 (at least with the North American maps), the
size of the individual map segments of CN are *much* larger than those
of CS. The larger segments are not a problem for the units for which
CN is recommended, because they generally have enough memory to hold
many such segments, but units for which CS is recommended may not be
able to load more than one of the CN segments at a time. If the
borders of that segment don't happen to match the area you want, you
won't be able to cover the desired area.


Based on my previous comment, I must disagree with this advice. You
should buy the map product that Garmin recommends for the unit you buy.


The OP indicated that he was looking for a new GPS, and my
interpretation of his post was that he was wondering whether to buy a
unit that uses CS or CN.

The units that use CN generally give slightly more sophisticated
directions than those that use CS. I'm not certain, but I believe that
only the units designed to work with CN are equipped to give voice
prompts. I use a 76CS with City Select, and I'm completely happy with
the way it works for on-road navigation; but I chose that combination
because I wanted a receiver that could do both on-road auto routing and
also be used for hiking, boating, etc. If I wanted a unit strictly for
on-road navigation, I would have chosen one of the units designed
primarily for that purpose and which use CN.

There is one more thing to consider. Garmin is discontinuing City Select
after v7. After that there
will be no choice for autorouting map software, it will be City Navigator
and its large map segments. If you have a Legend C or Vista C with 24 MB of
memory you may find that is a problem. I have a 76CS and even with 115 MB I
would not have enough memory to be able to pick small map segments along a
long travel route as I do with City Select. And having more than one set
of maps (City Navigator andTopo, e.g.) loaded for the same route would be
out of the question. I have emailed Garmin's tech support
and gotten back a reply indicating the development team may take that into
consideration in the future releases of CN.

I didn't say otherwise, see below.


I interpreted it as he was asking which of the two was the better product.


Fair enough. I haven't done so, but I understand that CN works fine with a
76CS.

Ivor