| | |  | Samsung | Home » » » » » Garmin MapSource WorldMap (CD-ROM) | | | | | | | Description: | | If you're heading for remote parts of the world, WorldMap has you covered. WorldMap provides basic worldwide maps for your Garmin device, including areas where no other detailed maps are available. These general maps display political boundaries, coastlines, cities and towns, major interstates and highways, lakes and rivers, and urban areas and railroads. WorldMap also includes U.S. Interstate exit information, including fuel and service stations, restaurants, hotels, campsites, hospitals, and banks. WorldMap is most useful for those parts of the world where no other detailed Garmin maps are available. | | | Features: | |
• Worldwide coverage with base map-level detail (v4)
• Includes political boundaries, cities, towns, and principal highways
• Displays U.S. interstate exit information
• Management functions allow you to transfer waypoints, routes, and tracks between your PC and nearly all Garmin GPS units
• See Product Description for compatible Garmin products
| | | Product Details: | | | Product Length:
| 6.0 inches | | Product Width:
| 6.0 inches | | Product Height:
| 1.0 inches | | Product Weight:
| 1.0 pounds | | Package Length:
| 11.89 inches | | Package Width:
| 8.19 inches | | Package Height:
| 0.55 inches | | Package Weight:
| 0.49 pounds | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 13 reviews |
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2 of 3 found the following review helpful:
 Useable GPS maps of the world--great Google Earth tie-inSep 14, 2009
We do a lot of foreign travel and periodically use a Garmin 60C GPS for understanding where we're going and where we've been. For example, in 2009 we headed to Nepal and Tibet to do some treking and white-water rafting, in 2008 it was central Africa, in 2006 we explored the ice fields and Fjords of Patagonia. None of these areas had easy to acquire maps, so I bought Garmin's WorldMap to at least provide rudimentary maps of the areas. This is about all the WorldMap does, as it is quite "high level" with only the major roads and towns available. However, it does provide downloadable maps for the GPS so that you have something to display in these non-US areas and something to use on your computer screen when planning the trip.
Probably my favorite use of the maps is its built-in tie to Google Earth. Once you locate your places of interest using World Map on your computer, you can click on the "View in Google Earth" and instantly view your waypoints and routes in Google Earth with infinite detail. Vise versa, I often use Google Earth to locate detailed GPS coordinates and copy them into my WorldMap software for download to the GPS; this provides a workaround for the low detail and poor accuracy of maps. When you get home you can also upload your world-wide tracks and waypoints that you acquired on your trip and view them in Google Earth to know exactly where you were and where to post pictures, if you do that. This interactivity with Google Earth saves the day for what otherwise is a pretty limited level of map detail.
In the US, I do a lot of off-road exploring, mostly in the southwest deserts. Here I use Garmin's Topo USA 2008 Garmin Mapsource Topo US 2008. It has infinite detail, on and off-road, and the same wonderful Google-Earth connectivity.
4 of 4 found the following review helpful:
Too bad it's the only option for South AmericaMay 26, 2009
It seems that if you need maps for Peru and Ecuador, this is your only choice, The coverage is only so-so and there is little city detail. These maps are locked to the PC and MAC users beware. If you have a PC and a MAC, you can convert the maps to be readable on the MAC but you need a PC with internet access to do this. And by the way, your PC had better be running XP or Vista. Windows 2000 may work but 98, 98SE do not.
3 of 3 found the following review helpful:
 Marginally usefulApr 10, 2009
After a few years of use with WorldMap I would have to agree with some of the other reviewers about the dubious accuracy. Errors I have found include place names not spelled correctly, locations shown a considerable distance from where they really are, and even wrong road numbers given (using the wrong country road numbering system... well, duh). In that last case, the folks who assembled the WorldMap (at least the version that I have) somehow concluded that when you travel from Argentina into Chile (where I live), the Argentine national road number would remain the same in Chile. It does not take much experience to know that this is simply not the case. WorldMap does not really add much to a GPS load above the detail level of the base map... some, yes. My two Garmin GPS units are pretty good as the hardware goes. As far as the WorldMap program, it's a major disappointment and could get you into trouble.
3 of 3 found the following review helpful:
 Not much better than BasemapDec 02, 2008
This adds very little detail over the Trip and Waypoint manager basemap. Added are some city names, topo lines, railroad tracks, small waterways, and obscure airports. I have not seen additional roadways and would not have purchased if I knew there would be no more road detail. Often in Latin America, the roads are incorrectly placed, making marked road tracking difficult. Standard Garmin Quality, which I have come to appreciate.
1 of 1 found the following review helpful:
Garmin WorldMap CD-RomJun 21, 2008
I travel internationally and was looking for something that would give me an idea what cities I was over from the air, when riding on commercial transportation. This product does that well from the air, but as I read on several other reviews, on the ground, it can be another story. It can put you on the wrong side of a river or when riding on a train, the depicted track can be 3/4 mile away or more. I have the US Street map and that works fine and is very accurate, but the World database still needs some tweaking. I use it with the Etrex Vista.
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