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garmin 010-11214-00 microSD/SD City Navigator China NT 2008. garmin is pleased to announce its new City Navigator China NT 2008, now available on an easy plug and play card for most popular garmin devices. Are you planning to visit Beijing this summer. Do you wish you had a personal guide. The garmin City Navigator China NT 2008 map is what you need. Simply insert this microSD/SD card into your compatible garmin unit, then you will be able to navigate in China like a local. garmin makes it simple for you to find the nearest restaurants, attractions or sporting venues, then return to your hotel at the end of the day. With almost seven million points of interest, including sport venues, restaurants, hotels, airports, train stations and much more, the garmin City Navigator China NT add on card is essential for your August holidays in China. Dont forget to bring it with you along with your passport, airplane ticket and, of course, your garmin device.
I purchased this map to use in my Garmin Nuvi 370. I had previously used my Garmin very successfully in europe. I purchased the map just prior to my departure for China in June of 2009. The map was totally useless as it was significantly offset which made navagating in Shanghi, Hangzou, or any of the other 9 cities we visited unworkable. If there was a fix it was not in the packaging or on the website. While tour travelling with marginal internet connections there is little hope of troubleshooting major product failures.
Even if the map had worked, there was a serious lack of detailed roadways. On the first day in Shanghi it was evident that the major 6 lane street that travelled in front of the Holiday Inn downtown next to the northern major railstation was not on the map. With this kind of lack of detail makes this the worst Garmin product I have seen. My sons and I own many Garmin products with great success.
Even corrected this is a very poor product.
My wife and I backpacked for 29 days in China at the end of 2008. This map pack was invaluable for confirming that we were going in the right direction. Because of the language, it's very easy to get going in the wrong direction in China so I always checked the GPS to verify where we were and what direction we were heading. I also used the maps to find a place to stay in Xi'an since it has a bunch of food, hotels, etc on the maps.
The maps are less detailed in the rural areas, as would be expected. If you travel in China and you aren't fluent in the language, you'll want to take advantage of any opportunity or tool to double and triple check where you're going. It's not so easy that you can just ask anyone for directions... practically no one speaks English in China, and if they do, they are probably to shy to talk to you. My wife and I almost ended up on a train to Chengdu instead of Zenshou because they sound similar... and that was a misunderstanding between two Chinese people, not between me and a Chinese. The language is so complex, they don't even understand each other sometimes! The GPS is adds peace of mind.
I'm not sure why the NUVIs are having such problems but these maps worked flawlessly on my 60csx handheld. My unit is 100% up to date with the software updates on the Garmin website.
Be advised that the Chinese government isn't keen on foreigners carrying GPS devices but if you just don't go waiving it around everywhere like a freak, you'll probably be fine, I didn't have any issues. As a point of reference, tourists aren't supposed to even bring tourists books with maps into China.
This map product is not only out of date on what roads and expressways exist, but there exists a shift from real location. If tracking on a long stretch of road, it can be seen clearly because the track created by the GPS unit runs off to one side by a 100 meters or more. Makes it tough to navigate in a city.
I asked Garmin technical support about this and got this reply (June 1, 2009):
Thank you for contacting Garmin International. It is not intentional on our part, however the Chinese government does "shift" the mapping.
I think this is mainly to with China's legislation in regards to security in China and the use of GPS devices, so as to distort it not to give an accurate reading.
We would not be able to guarantee the accuracy of the mapping. Some customers have found it useful and some have not.
I bought this before a two month trip to China. I checked it first in the US, and it had the maps of China, and i was able to identify my main places of interest. However when I arrived in China I was stunned to see that the maps were all offset from actual positions. I would be on a highway, and it would show me as a mile out in the ocean. Garmin technical support was little help in resolving the problem either.
I began to be worried that this was not an original map, because it didn't have the Garmin sticker on it, so I had a replacement sent from Amazon. Again, it appears to be just another copied map. On, I believe a Garmin site, it says that if the maps are copied, they won't sink up right. So I probably now have a second one of these that will not work. But won't find out till I go back to China.
This map never worked in China, total fiasco. Asked Garmin for help, never answered. Still fighting for a reinbursment.
Initially, I was having the same offset problems with my China map, finally, after communicated with Garmin Taiwan and China, my Garmin is now working fine with this map...essentially, Garmin has omitted a "006B082300.bin" file in their earlier batch of SD card that were sold in the United States, once, this "bin" file is copied to the SD card, it will solve all the offset problems faced...It is sad that Garmin didn't recall their faulty product swiftly to avoid all the inconvenient caused to their "loyal" customers...
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About Garmin City Navigator for Detailed Maps of China (microSD/SD Card) detail
- Brand: Garmin
- Model: 010-11214-00
- Dimensions: 1.85" h x 1.25" w x .10" l, .10 pounds
Features
- Pin Yin - English Language
- Full Country Coverage With Complete Intertown Road Network
- Street Level Detail And Point Of Interests For More Than 980 Cities, Including
- Beijing, Shenyang, Shanghai, Tianjin, Qinhuangdao, And Qingdao
- With Nearly Seven Million Pois Including Sport Venues Reswtaurants, Hotels,
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