Garmin can't keep up in the city

I bought a Garmin 2370 to use in Europe. Until now, it has been very
satisfactory, but today it would not keep up in the city.

There is always some lag. I was in the south end of Firenze and decided to
use the GPS to get me back to our villa. Until then, it was just in "view
map" mode. It gave instructions and showed the map of an approaching
roundabout. When I got to it, I'd take the right exit, but it did not seem
to follow and would re-calculate to the same route. Got me back, but was
annoying in a town of fast traffic and fast turns.

Any GPS is helpful in giving the street names, but in much of Europe, the
street signs are on the corner buildings and difficult to see quickly.
Especially when it says, "turn left onto Enrico Fugialloto Fumichelli
Bertizzoni Peachy Cappuccino street"

On 26/09/2011 00:35, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
In England road Numbers are more prominent than names, but Garmin seems
to ignore them.

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Residing on low ground in North Staffordshire

Moonraker wrote on Sep 26, 2011:


That applies to most of Europe in urban areas, I've found. Street names are
only useful to pedestrians. Abroad the text-to-speech is virtually useless
anyway since the pronunciation is so garbled that it's mostly completely
unintelligible.

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Mike Lane
UK North Yorkshire
mike_lane at mac dot com

Last year I used the 255W in Florence in pedestrian mode without too much
problem. We were there only shortly, and had a city map from somewhere
as well. We were sleepy because the nighttrain from Paris was a pain.
They were recovering from a strike, and there was little or no A/C and
hardly any food.

Around Tuscany, Pisa and Arezzo the 255W performed fine, especially with
the aid of our 10 year-old granddaughter ...

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Best regards
Han
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I did not use it for navigation today, but had it on anyway. I drove SR65
over the Futa Pass. Runs between Bologna and Florence, over the mountains.
Incredible road with many hundred turns. The display would spin all over
the place on the tight turns and switchbacks.

Great road. Ducati uses it for testing bikes.