I just returned from a trip to Europe. For our trip we flew in to Rome, drove to a rural area an hour outside Florence, spent a week there and drove to Florence, then on to Parma, the Loire valley and finally on to Paris. I purchased this software with the Garmin GPSMap 60Cx and offer the following comments.
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br /1 - Ignore the picture showing V6 - This REALLY is version 8 for sale.
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br /2 - The software was mostly easy to use. The download / upload process was relatively pain free and reasonably fast. There is no need to delete the existing maps in the unit before loading a new map in - your upload simply writes over the current maps.
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br /3 - The only bugs I noticed have to do with getting at the underlying directions for Routes you create. I found that selecting the route did not always work, but that clicking on the route on the map and then clicking on Properties to get to the Directions solved the problem.
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br /4 - The turn-by-turn directions were mostly spot on. However there were some places in Italy where I ran in to areas that were recently / currently under construction and in these areas, some wrong turns were indicated. The most useful feature in these circumstances was the automatic recalculation for directions.
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br /5 - When you zoom in to a quarter mile radius, the location of restaurants, local attractions, etc show up with useful symbols, sometimes with amusing results. Outside the door of our hotel in Florence I turned on the unit and saw no fewer than 15 pizza symbols (pizzerias) within 2 blocks of our hotel.
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br /6 - The Route function does not seem to work as advertised. You are supposed to be able to create a Route between two or more points on your computer and then download them to your device. The only problem is that the Route only works if you also include ALL of the map segments between the points. With a 64 MB limit on my device, this was often impossible. The result is that I had to download subsets of the map segments for my drive from Parma to Paris and then create routes for segments of the drive. If I did not have my laptop with me, I would have been out of luck.
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br /A couple of suggestions for version 9. Please break up some of the larger areas into smaller maps. On the segment from Geneva to Paris, I passed through the very northwest corner of one map segment for maybe 15 miles. However I had to load the ENTIRE 6 MB segment in to memory. Alternatively, if the Route function can allow you to load in only the portion of the segment you will drive through, I would be VERY happy.
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br /Also, I was shocked to find that the toll through the Mont Blanc tunnel was 39 euros. There were also numerous other tolls along the way from Parma to Paris - totaling over 115 euros. It would be nice to know this in advance to allow for planning purposes. Considering the fact that thousands of pizzerias are pre-loaded, information about toll roads doesn't seem like too much to ask for.

I ordered v8 as soon as it was advertised by Garmin but they shipped v7 instead. Six weeks later I got the v8 update dvd. My wife and kids had to make due with v7 while in Madrid. She was pleased with the accuracy and said it enabled her to travel around with confidence. However, she noted that Madrid was undergoing quite a bit of major road construction and she got stuck in multiple traffic jams on the major highways. In the end, she would veer away from the major roads and let the unit re-calculate her route.

Good product - Works as advertised. But....
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br /Note that Version 8 is not the most recent product. Version 9 has been around since late 2006 - Apparently lots of improvements, and greater coverage of Europe. I am contacting Garmin directly to see if I can upgrade for free. I would have bought v9 if I had known it existed!!
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br /There are lots of road building projects in Europe and things have moved on since Version 8. I came up against at least 2 situations where new motorways (in Germany) completed in the last 1 - 2 years were not shown at all, and I was taken on a bit of a round about journey.

I bought this CD summer 06 just before a month long road trip through Italy and I can tell it saved my trip. Without it, every day would have been a nightmare. Driving through the busy streets of Rome, Florence, Milan, Napoli went like a breeze. The automatic recalculation of routes was quick and a must when driving through very crowded streets. I was amazed how my Garmin 350 could figure out the most complicated path in the Alps and the Riviera and Amalfi coast. To build my trip, I simply entered each of my hotels in "My Favorites" as well as the major sites i wanted to visit. I then entered the destination with one waypoint each day and it went very well.
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br /POSITIVE:
br /- Very accurate picture of the curves, exits, roundabouts
br /- Excellent mapping of the streets at the highest zoom
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br /NEGATIVE:
br /- Garmin sometime confuse roads suitable for scooters only with major roads
br /- Automatic unzooming and zooming should be disabled. I used high zoom most of the time
br /- Inaccuracies were rare but already present (some inexistant exits and wrong one-ways)

City Navigator v9 proved a vital asset while traveling in Germany. All local streets and major roads were well represented in and around Munich. While not all that many Biergartens were listed in the Points of Interest (POI) list, some were. If I had an address, it was easy enough to plug in that address and my Garmin 276C never failed to route me exactly to that point. My only major disappoint is that CN Europe is keyed for access to one Garmin unit only. To use CN Europe on a second unit requires the purchase of a second key, where CN North America allows two units to be accessed before requiring a second key. Overall, an excellent product, if a bit expensive.

Software made my last trip to Europe a pleasure. I pre-programmed all my appointments and hotels before I left the USA. GPS data was very accurate in Germany and Austria (is this a surprise?), but in Italy, accuracy was less than perfect. Be careful in countries where Garmin says data may be incomplete. That is the only reason I gave it 4 stars. Cost is high, but with expensive European fuel prices, missing a turn, etc. can add up.

The item is great as such. It has more potential than City Select as it comes with more number of mapping attributes for automatic route calculation. However do shop around for a better price than Amazon, the current price is $599.99 which is almost double the Suggested Retail Price given at Garmin's website!

I am very happy with it, easy to install it, no problems,
br /At now I have no tested in really life but im planning a trip and I Will do it, I think it will be a great product as his "twin" City Navigator North America, the same kind of info and tools (routes, POI, Details)
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br /Note : This DVD provides more than 2GB info, and you can't store it in the same card, the Garmin 60 CSX only accepts 2GB in the same card, don't pretend to buy a 4 GB card in order to store all the data, instead of that, prior your trip, select the regions you will need.

I purchased this maps on a DVD and purchsed a 4GB scan disk. The 4GB does not work on this Garmin. I had to purchased the 2GB and took me several hours to load these map. I had to unselect several Eastern countries to make sure I have enough memory.
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br /It work perfectly. The message always says miles, when in reality it is km. It helped me a lot. I am still in Europe using it and would not be able to do without it.
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Loaded the maps of Italy, and off we went. Found everything we were looking for, it even had our hotel for the last night. Couldn't have found it without the maps.

My family and I recently went to visit my daughter who lives in Austria. We used our Garmin 550 and the recently purchased downloaded CD map information. We put the maps on an SD card rather than load up the unit itself. The directions from Munich Airport to her home in Austria were wonderful and got us there without a glitch. We had been awake for 42 hours by the time we arrived and were glad we did not need to try to follow paper maps in the car while enroute. However, there was one glitch. We decided to drive one day from her home in Austria to Chesky Krumlov, a small and beautiful are in the Czech Republic. Evidently I had forgotten to change my unit from the shortest route to whatever would have gotten us there via a BETTER route! We traveled for miles and miles over twisting and turning roads (unlike the route we had taken a few years ago without the GPS),through areas which we had never seen before (interesting and beautiful but not when you only have so much time. At last our GPS unit announced we were arriving at a ferry!! Only there was no ferry operating. Perhaps during the summer season there is, but the unit did not tell us that! We then had to back track for miles, again over hilly and winding terrain while the unit did some "recalculating", again traveling up and down roads that resembled a corkscrew. We eventually came upon the route which we had traveled a few years ago (pre GPS days) and were more than happy to finally reach our destination at noon. We did not use the unit for the return trip back to my daughter's as we were sure it would again head us towards the ferry! At the end of our vacation, we used the GPS European maps and they got us back to the Munich airport wihout any problems. I am not sure how to avoid errors such at the one which took us to the ferry, but I would again use this CD to get us to destinations on future trips, perhaps checking a paper map along the way as well!

Great product...would recommend to anyone with a Garmin going over to Europe. I installed it on my computer and found it very easy to use and being able to select the actual area I wanted was nice because it saved TONS of memory space on my GPS.

Dont travel to Europe without it. I drove in the past without GPS and its way to stressful. They all have quirks but not many with a Garmin NUVI

A finding, so good, I was short on selling my nuvi 200W, just called to garmin's customer service, good advice, great product, no regrets.

Garmin is great, but Amazon when I called to talk to them about getting the additional software for my Garmin I purchased at Christmas, they sold/sent me the DVD version which is not the correct item. You need the SD card version so it fits into the Garmin. I called Garmin and they walked me through on how to use the DVD. I had to go and buy a 2G card and then download the DVD and then transfer it to the card..and of course it didn't all fit on the card so I had to delete some countries..it was a mess..I couldn't return the DVD since I had already opened it. The product of the maps are great but Amazon should have known that the DVD version was obsolete and not sell it.