[Idyllchat] Lost in Venice

[Russell Crum]

Yes, I used mine in Italy a year ago. I have a Garmin Quest 2. It  
worked great except on streets lined with tall buildings where it  
could not get adequate satellite signals. Usually when the street  
opened up into a plaza, I could recover signal coverage. I carried  
mine in a small pouch attached to my belt and it usually worked  
adequately there. I don't remember if I used it in Rome or not. I  
know I used it in Milan. Since we were in Umbria on our Untour, I  
used it extensively in smaller cities/towns as well as driving around  
Umbria and Tuscany.

I bought the Metroguide Europe maps rather than the City Navigator  
Europe because of the price of the City Navigator set. I learned that  
the map set is identical but the Metroguide series does not have the  
data included to allow the GPS to compute routes. It took quite a bit  
of questioning of the Garmin support people to find that out because  
the Metroguide series supposedly will not work with the Quest 2, or  
any other of their GPSs that can compute routes.

Russ

Russ Crum
rrcrum at sbcglobal.net

On Jan 16, 2008, at 8:16 , Robert A Meyer wrote:

> Has anyone used GPS to find their way around Venice or any other  
> large city in Europe?
> Not in a car, but walking around the city.
> Bob Meyer
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