Travel Technology - which GPS for cross country Europe driving ?

of course price is always a consideration ,

I was thinking of getting a TomTom oneand thenm the Euro maps,
but it seems that they do not work fron country to country,

So say you wanted to go from London to Berlin , you would have to load the UK, France, Belgium maps plus the Germany Austria/Swiss map

It will only go to the edge of the map thats loaded even if all of them are on the same SD card, so it would not know how to get from London to Berlin,

Are there any that can cross borders of all of Europe ?

I know the roads pretty good anyway , but maybe I am adding 100 miles on a long trip by not going the best route ,

Any experiances ?

Thanks

Rally

The TomTom 910 comes preloaded with US, Canada, and Europe on it. Only used it in Italy so far, it was flawless on the tiny roads we were on.

TomTom has a whole list of available maps from one country to all of Europe for most of their GPS units.

MisterNice

For less than a week's charge for GPS in a rental car, you can own a copy of Microsoft AutoRoute, a program that does it all on your laptop. All of Europe is a single database, so mapping a seamless route from Stockholm to Seville is possible. For a few bucks extra, they'll include a GPS Locator (receiver) that plugs into a USB port - and that's all you need.

There's also a version called Streets & Trips that has maps for Canada and the U.S. - so you can practice before you go abroad. Look on eBay for streets autoroute gps to get an earlier version.

I have a TomTom 910 which seems to have all of Europe, plus north america and perhaps a few other bits and pieces on. Works fine (where I've been), and is used primarilly while in my own vehicle..

In the slightly more compact and travel-worthy department, I have TomTom Navigator 6 Western Europe + a Nokia E65 cellphone + a BlueTooth GPS device (Nokia LD-3W), which allows me to have maps of western europe in my pocket. Works fine too....especially since I can place the GPS receiver where it has most "view" of the sky, and the phone where I have most view of the screen with the route instructions. I have a 2GB MicroSD card in the phone, but I think that's overkill and that <1GB would do to stock only the maps + the software.

So there're plenty of options for mobile navigation in Europe.

Now, if only I knew how to get a Japanese map for my TomTom Navigator 6, that I might get lost a bit less when in Tokyo.....(I looked at TomTom's site a while back, they didn't have any for sale ;( )

I've got a Garmin c330. I purchased the European maps (City Navigator NT Europe) and was more than satisfied with them. The map package had *every* road, even small dirt tracks in the Austrian Alps.

Got to say we're chuffed to little mint balls with Tom Tom 6 that runs on the PDA. Obviously works well for the UK, but it did a great job in both France and Italy this past year.

I run Tomtom 6 on a XDA Mini pda running Windows Mobile 2003SE. I've got a Holux Bluetooth GPS.

thanks

I just bought a TomTom one with UK and Europe maps,

its being sent to my friends London house so it will be there when I arrive,

I will let you kbow how it helps.....

Rally

I've got a Garmin c330. I purchased the European maps (City Navigator NT Europe) and was more than satisfied with them. The map package had *every* road, even small dirt tracks in the Austrian Alps.

We've had similar good experiences with our Garmin Nüvi 350 in France and Denmark, also right down to the smallest roads. ^