Recommended GPS for a gift from American to Italian?
Tom
online in America to be given as a gift to an Italian (carried in luggage)?
I've heard that some GPS units that have European maps, while they text in
meters and kilometers, still speak the units in "piedi" (i.e., feet) and
"miglio" (i.e., mile) instead of in kilometers.
Also, the power supply and charger would need to handle 220v gracefully
(without too many adaptors) and probably also USB (luckily there is at
least one power USB standard on this earth!).
Can you recommend a portable GPS, bought in the USA, but given in Italy as
a gift?
Mike Russell
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> Can you recommend a portable GPS, bought in the USA, but given in Italy as
> a gift?
Order the European version of your favorite GPS unit from
http://www.amazon.co.uk . You also have the option to have it shipped
direct to Italy, which should save you a little luggage space, and shipping
cost.
--
Mike Russell - http://www.curvemeister.com
Susan
>> Can you recommend a portable GPS, bought in the USA,
>> but given in Italy as a gift?
>
> Order the European version of your favorite GPS unit from
> http://www.amazon.co.uk
Garmin only makes American units so you'll have to buy a TomTom or Magellan
instead.
Marcel Aerts
"Susan" <susanw...@aol.com> wrote in message
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EUUUH more info plaese, because i don't believe this!!!!!!!!!
Stamba
Jonathan Schneider
> On Jul 3, 1:47 pm, Susan <susanwilli...@aol.com> wrote:
>> On Thu, 3 Jul 2008 01:33:57 -0700, Mike Russell wrote:
>> >> Can you recommend a portable GPS, bought in the USA,
>> >> but given in Italy as a gift?
>>
>> Garmin only makes American units so you'll have to buy a TomTom or Magellan
>> instead.
>
> You are completely misinformed! http://www8.garmin.com/cartography/ontheRoad/
There is a very valid point. Garmin's idea of addressing outside the
US stinks. The address lookup features on my GPSMAP 60C are absolutely
useless.
Jon
David Remley
> Can you recommend a portable GPS, bought in the USA, but given in Italy as
> a gift?
The only GPS that you can buy in the usa that works in europe is the tom
tom one.
Stamba
Well, i live in Europe and using nuvi 200 without any problem at all - so i
really do not understand what you are talking about?
Regards,
Stramba
Stamba
*any* GPS for which you can find maps will work anywhere in the world -
Magellan, Garmin, TomTom, Navigon, Mio, PocketPC with iGo or GarminXT ...
Regards,
Stamba
Tom
> *any* GPS for which you can find maps will work anywhere in the world -
> Magellan, Garmin, TomTom, Navigon, Mio, PocketPC with iGo or GarminXT ...
It has to speak decent Italian and the menus must be in Italian.
Will every GPS do that?
Which does it well?
Edwin Pawlowski
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Why is that? Why does Garmin offer so many international maps if the unit
will not work out of the US?
To answer a couple of questions that came up in other postings, with the
Nuvi 350 (and others, I'm sure) you can have the readout in either miles or
kilometers. You can choose Italiano as a language in both a male and female
voice.
Susan
> Nuvi 350 (and others, I'm sure) you can have the readout in either miles or
> kilometers. You can choose Italiano as a language in both a male and female
> voice.
You can make the nuvi speak Italian but you can't make that Italian not
make you laugh. Even set in kilometers for the text, the words spoken are
in feet and miles!
Of course, the nuvi says it with an Italian accent.
mike
Don't even think about it. It's a very bad idea.
Last gift I got that I really wanted was in 1956 and that was because I
put it on my Xmas want list to Santa. Everything since then was
something OTHER than what I really wanted. Dammit, if I want something
I already have it. If I can't afford it, I also can't
afford something else I'd rather have.
GPS's are all the same except for slightly different features.
Those different features should be decided by the user, not someone
on a different continent with different culture, driving habits,
language etc.
When you get there, take 'em to the store and help them pick one out.
Mike Russell
I checked my 200w in sim mode and the spoken Italian worked fine with
metric settings.
Stamba
Garmin has italian menus and language - i gues it's spoken by native
speaker - for TTS i do not know how it works.
Regards,
Stamba
SamSez
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The US versions of the Garmin Nuvi 270, 370, 670, 770 all come pre-loaded
with street level maps for BOTH the US and Europe.
rick
> Stamba <sstre...@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> On Jul 3, 1:47 pm, Susan <susanwilli...@aol.com> wrote:
>>> On Thu, 3 Jul 2008 01:33:57 -0700, Mike Russell wrote:
>>> >> Can you recommend a portable GPS, bought in the USA,
>>> >> but given in Italy as a gift?
>>>
>>> Garmin only makes American units so you'll have to buy a TomTom or Magellan
>>> instead.
>>
>> You are completely misinformed! http://www8.garmin.com/cartography/ontheRoad/
>
> There is a very valid point. Garmin's idea of addressing outside the
> US stinks.
Garmin could consider world wide use a bit more, e.g. there's no
waypoint symbol for a train station, even! Very odd.
--
rick
cb
Nuvi 350. Speaks funny portuguese but it�s understandable and fun to
hear words pronounced with an english accent...
Susan
> Garmin works fine in Europe. I have a Magellan in the drawer and use
> Nuvi 350. Speaks funny portuguese but it愀 understandable and fun to
> hear words pronounced with an english accent...
Did anyone come up with a recommended GPS for Italy yet?
jeff feehan
> On Mon, 07 Jul 2008 21:23:32 +0100, cb wrote:
>
>> Garmin works fine in Europe. I have a Magellan in the drawer and use
>
> Did anyone come up with a recommended GPS for Italy yet?
i purchased my nuvi 270 in the usa, and used it all over sardinia
last summer. it was great. it had pretty much every road, from
highway to little alley way.
i never tried out the italian language voice command, but i know that
it does have it...