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One of my co-workers wants to buy "MapSource City Navigator North
America 2008". He wants to use a civic address to navigate to
locations in New Brunswick, Canada. Many of his locations are going
to be outside of urban areas. Can anyone who has used "MapSource City
Navigator North America 2008" give me an idea if these maps would be
useful? I have only used the "MapSource Topo Canada v2" maps and I
have never used a civic address with a GPS unit.
Thanks,
Bernie.
Can you give some examples of where you'll be going?
City Navigator NT V8 looks like it has fairly good coverage of small towns
in NB.
Bernie:
I have CNNA 2008 which I believe is actually CNNA V9.
Using CNNA 2008 I found the 184 Irving Boulevard address in Bouctouche, NB,
but none of the other addresses. I could find Rexton, NB and Port Elgin, NB
also, but not the street addresses . Could not find Sainte-Anne-de-Kent nor
Grande-Diue, NB
>> Can you give some examples of where you'll be going?
>> City Navigator NT V8 looks like it has fairly good coverage of small
>> towns
>> in NB.
>> City Navigator NT V8 looks like it has fairly good coverage of small
>> towns
>> in NB.
> Does CNNA v8 have civic addresses for small communities? For example:
> 18 Hutchinson Lane, Rexton, NB?
> 40 Route 505, Sainte-Anne-de-Kent, NB?
> 184 Irving Boulevard, Bouctouche, NB?
> 102 Chemin de la Cote, Grande-Digue, NB?
> 13 Fort Street, Port Elgin, NB?
> Bernie.
>
> 18 Hutchinson Lane, Rexton, NB?
> 40 Route 505, Sainte-Anne-de-Kent, NB?
> 184 Irving Boulevard, Bouctouche, NB?
> 102 Chemin de la Cote, Grande-Digue, NB?
> 13 Fort Street, Port Elgin, NB?
> Bernie.
>
berniejconnors wrote:
> One of my co-workers wants to buy "MapSource City Navigator North
> America 2008". He wants to use a civic address to navigate to
> locations in New Brunswick, Canada. Many of his locations are going
> to be outside of urban areas. Can anyone who has used "MapSource City
> Navigator North America 2008" give me an idea if these maps would be
> useful? I have only used the "MapSource Topo Canada v2" maps and I
> have never used a civic address with a GPS unit.
>
> America 2008". He wants to use a civic address to navigate to
> locations in New Brunswick, Canada. Many of his locations are going
> to be outside of urban areas. Can anyone who has used "MapSource City
> Navigator North America 2008" give me an idea if these maps would be
> useful? I have only used the "MapSource Topo Canada v2" maps and I
> have never used a civic address with a GPS unit.
>
You can use the MapSource Map Viewers on these pages to see the mapping
details in City Navigator and MetroGuide Canada:
http://www8.garmin.com/cartography/mapSource/citynav.jsp
http://www8.garmin.com/cartography/mapSource/mgCanada.jsp
Jack
I just returned from a 4,200-mile motorcycle trip to Nova Scotia, PEI, and
New Brunswick.
I relied entirely on CNNA 2008 for routing and found the road accuracy in
general to be quite good. There were a few glitches like misplaced lakes
and unpaved roads not marked as such (which with a two-up Gold Wing towing a
trailer is a not an innocuous error) but nothing that created any problems.
We ran many, many secondary -- very secondary! -- roads and in fact avoided
major roads for the most part and never once had an instance where we were
led astray. Routing to addresses wasn't perfect but always got us close
enough.
POI's, on the other hand, were not well-developed in rural areas. Sometimes
the listing of the closest lodging or fuel was in the US, so I'd recommend
being ready to use some other method to locate such items if this is
critical to the trip.
I would highly recommend CNNA 2008 with the caveats above. Canadian maps
are based on Her Majesty's mapping information, so basically neither Garmin
nor NavTeq is responsible for the information. I expect it's as good as it
gets. And it's pretty good.
--
Jim Beachy
> One of my co-workers wants to buy "MapSource City Navigator North
> America 2008". He wants to use a civic address to navigate to
> locations in New Brunswick, Canada. Many of his locations are going
> to be outside of urban areas. Can anyone who has used "MapSource City
> Navigator North America 2008" give me an idea if these maps would be
> useful? I have only used the "MapSource Topo Canada v2" maps and I
> have never used a civic address with a GPS unit.
> Thanks,
> Bernie.
>
> America 2008". He wants to use a civic address to navigate to
> locations in New Brunswick, Canada. Many of his locations are going
> to be outside of urban areas. Can anyone who has used "MapSource City
> Navigator North America 2008" give me an idea if these maps would be
> useful? I have only used the "MapSource Topo Canada v2" maps and I
> have never used a civic address with a GPS unit.
> Thanks,
> Bernie.
>
> America 2008". He wants to use a civic address to navigate to
> locations in New Brunswick, Canada. Many of his locations are going
> to be outside of urban areas. Can anyone who has used "MapSource City
> Navigator North America 2008" give me an idea if these maps would be
> useful? I have only used the "MapSource Topo Canada v2" maps and I
> have never used a civic address with a GPS unit.
> Thanks,
> Bernie.