MX5Ireland

Hey gang,

I'm off to the USA in ten days & want to have a satnav for the driving. Garmin's awful website seems to say the maps (for our own satnav) are pretty pricey, so I'm thinking of getting a USA TomTom from Amazon.com.

Anyone have experience of getting USA maps for a European Satnav?

Simon, You hiring a car? Check if the car rental company can supply you with one?

Good luck with the trip
What part of the states you visiting?


John

Hi John,

We're going to Cape Cod for ten days or so then Minneapolis / Wisconsin for a few days. Yeah, I looked at the options for hiring a satnav but it seems pricey.

we went to america last year and Tom Tom was just great it has the USA maps on it and we never got lost once.. fully recomend it.....

Get the top of the range Tom Tom it gives you all that you require... the USA maps are part of the package... brilliant

wazza wrote:we went to america last year and Tom Tom was just great it has the USA maps on it and we never got lost once.. fully recomend it.....

Get the top of the range Tom Tom it gives you all that you require... the USA maps are part of the package... brilliant

we drove all over the USA and drove over 3,000 miles and Tom Tom got us to just where we wanted to be with No fuss

Could you not 'get' the maps from somewhere?

I was wondering that... I get the sense it's hard to do...

Simon

You could be right, always a risk with these things.
Never tried to download maps (or anything else officer!) but it might be worth a try.
I have heard that you will need a program such as bittorrent to handle the file that you find. Then search for 'garmin maps usa torrent' and click the download link in the web page that you find. it will then use bittorrent (or whatever you have) to download the file and save it to your pc.

Reesy wrote:I was wondering that... I get the sense it's hard to do...

Simon

I got the maps in Harvey Norman

Ivan

Thanks Ivan

I have the Tom Tom go 910 with all the world maps including North America. I used it for France and its the "Madras Liathroid."

I have downloaded quite a few things via bittorent in the name of research and the advice I would give is this

" When the dodgy install packs up in the arse end of nowhere you would GLADLY pay the orginal price for the maps "

I have Tom Tom with USA maps and they are great - however I would suggest you rent one with your car .. unless you are going to be traveling there a lot.

Our SatNav maps are 2 years old now and out of date. Seems a waste to buy a map for a holiday you might only take once every now and then. We go at least once a year - OH is from the other side of the pond!

From what I can tell on TomTom's site you only have support for 12 months .. I guess this is the catch with SatNav's in general ..


Or

Go the "other" way and rent one if you do have probs .. prob what I would do there again, I'm a tech!