"David Remley" wrote in message
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On Thu, 3 Jul 2008 00:48:15 -0700, Tom wrote:

Can you recommend a portable GPS, bought in the USA, but given in Italy
as
a gift?

The only GPS that you can buy in the usa that works in europe is the tom
tom one.

Why is that? Why does Garmin offer so many international maps if the unit
will not work out of the US?

To answer a couple of questions that came up in other postings, with the
Nuvi 350 (and others, I'm sure) you can have the readout in either miles or
kilometers. You can choose Italiano as a language in both a male and female
voice.

On Thu, 3 Jul 2008 22:12:19 -0400, Edwin Pawlowski wrote:

Nuvi 350 (and others, I'm sure) you can have the readout in either miles or
kilometers. You can choose Italiano as a language in both a male and female
voice.

You can make the nuvi speak Italian but you can't make that Italian not
make you laugh. Even set in kilometers for the text, the words spoken are
in feet and miles!

Of course, the nuvi says it with an Italian accent.

On Thu, 3 Jul 2008 19:55:27 -0700, Susan wrote:

On Thu, 3 Jul 2008 22:12:19 -0400, Edwin Pawlowski wrote:

Nuvi 350 (and others, I'm sure) you can have the readout in either miles or
kilometers. You can choose Italiano as a language in both a male and female
voice.

You can make the nuvi speak Italian but you can't make that Italian not
make you laugh. Even set in kilometers for the text, the words spoken are
in feet and miles!

Of course, the nuvi says it with an Italian accent.

I checked my 200w in sim mode and the spoken Italian worked fine with
metric settings.
--
Mike Russell - http://www.curvemeister.com

On Jul 4, 1:00 am, Tom wrote:
On Thu, 03 Jul 2008 20:24:45 +0200, Stamba wrote:
*any* GPS for which you can find maps will work anywhere in the world -
Magellan, Garmin, TomTom, Navigon, Mio, PocketPC with iGo or GarminXT ...

It has to speak decent Italian and the menus must be in Italian.
Will every GPS do that?

Which does it well?

Garmin has italian menus and language - i gues it's spoken by native
speaker - for TTS i do not know how it works.

Regards,
Stamba

Tom wrote in
:

Can you recommend a portable GPS auto navigation unit for me to
purchase online in America to be given as a gift to an Italian
(carried in luggage)?

I've heard that some GPS units that have European maps, while they
text in meters and kilometers, still speak the units in "piedi" (i.e.,
feet) and "miglio" (i.e., mile) instead of in kilometers.

Also, the power supply and charger would need to handle 220v
gracefully (without too many adaptors) and probably also USB (luckily
there is at least one power USB standard on this earth!).

Can you recommend a portable GPS, bought in the USA, but given in
Italy as a gift?


The US versions of the Garmin Nuvi 270, 370, 670, 770 all come pre-loaded
with street level maps for BOTH the US and Europe.

Jonathan Schneider zee op 3/7/08 17:07:
Stamba writes:

On Jul 3, 1:47 pm, Susan wrote:
On Thu, 3 Jul 2008 01:33:57 -0700, Mike Russell wrote:
Can you recommend a portable GPS, bought in the USA,
but given in Italy as a gift?

Garmin only makes American units so you'll have to buy a TomTom or Magellan
instead.

You are completely misinformed! http://www8.garmin.com/cartography/ontheRoad/

There is a very valid point. Garmin's idea of addressing outside the
US stinks.

Garmin could consider world wide use a bit more, e.g. there's no
waypoint symbol for a train station, even! Very odd.

--
rick

Garmin works fine in Europe. I have a Magellan in the drawer and use
Nuvi 350. Speaks funny portuguese but it´s understandable and fun to
hear words pronounced with an english accent...

On Mon, 07 Jul 2008 21:23:32 +0100, cb wrote:

Garmin works fine in Europe. I have a Magellan in the drawer and use
Nuvi 350. Speaks funny portuguese but it´s understandable and fun to
hear words pronounced with an english accent...

Did anyone come up with a recommended GPS for Italy yet?

Susan wrote:
On Mon, 07 Jul 2008 21:23:32 +0100, cb wrote:

Garmin works fine in Europe. I have a Magellan in the drawer and use
Nuvi 350. Speaks funny portuguese but it´s understandable and fun to
hear words pronounced with an english accent...

Did anyone come up with a recommended GPS for Italy yet?


i purchased my nuvi 270 in the usa, and used it all over sardinia
last summer. it was great. it had pretty much every road, from
highway to little alley way.

i never tried out the italian language voice command, but i know that
it does have it...