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Detailed map coverage for Great Britain and Republic of Ireland containing full coverage of Great Britian, Isle of Man and the Channel Islands. Full coverage also included for major cites in Northern Ireland these cities in Ireleand: Blackrock, Bray, Cahereiveen, Cork, Count Kerry, Dublin, Galway, Glenageary, Greystones, Kilarney, Limerick, Lucan, Malahide, Waterford, and Wichlow.
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• Made By: GARMIN USA INC
• Model Number: 010-10691-00
• See Description
| | | Product Details: | | | Product Length:
| 4.0 inches | | Product Width:
| 4.0 inches | | Product Height:
| 1.0 inches | | Product Weight:
| 1.0 pounds | | Package Length:
| 4.1 inches | | Package Width:
| 3.8 inches | | Package Height:
| 0.5 inches | | Package Weight:
| 0.05 pounds | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 14 reviews |
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2 of 2 found the following review helpful:
 Did a good job in EnglandFeb 01, 2010
We drove a lot of English roads in 10 days and I can only remember one time where the maps were off a little.
1 of 1 found the following review helpful:
 GPSSep 21, 2009
The Garmin worked fair.
Not as good as in the US.
The voice instructions did not always match with the map.
Also the update was behind road changes.
1 of 1 found the following review helpful:
 Made the trip to Ireland less stresfulAug 21, 2009
You won't regret purchasing this item and popping it into your garmin gps. It guided us from location to location with very little difficulty.
5 of 6 found the following review helpful:
Don't Go To Ireland Without It, But Beware of Shortcomings.Jul 07, 2009
Great product in general, but as is typical with Garmin's databases, it is years out of date, and does not have sufficient information about road types. This results in poor decisions regarding best routes to take which can have annoying or disastrous consequences in Ireland. We just finished (7/3/09) using the latest version of this product in conjunction with a Garmin 260W GPS on an 11-day, 1200 mile trip.
Ireland's roads are narrow in the extreme -- single lane rural roads are often two-way and lined with stone walls -- and poorly marked, so the database is crucial in confirming routes and giving positions. Unfortunately the system very often chooses poor routes, particularly near towns and cities because of its lack of current information and information about road type. In all fairness, the database had a wealth of information about small, rural tracks that might not be present on many paper maps, and made traveling some of the coastal roads much easier.
Ireland's recent economic boom has resulted in faster bypass routes and roads near most of the large cities, but the database does not reflect these. The older routes inevitably run through the congested market centers of towns, and slow travel by many hours.
Many of the new "dual carriageway" (divided highway) roads are not present in the database. This can lead to a great deal of confusion when trying to decipher the signage while getting conflicting information from the GPS, and can result in choosing slow, congested roads while watching traffic whiz by on a nearby freeway.
Missing a turn and allowing the GPS to reroute you may have you bouncing through the countryside on a single-track farm road since the database does not discriminate between road types. This has limited amusement value. Further, when returning to Dublin from Donegal, it routed us through Northern Ireland on slow, rural roads rather than a less-direct but much faster route via new freeways slightly more south that did not require crossing the border.
RECOMMENDATION: The best navigational method we developed was to have a current paper map purchased in Ireland (even these may be somewhat out of date) with a sharp pair of eyes helping the driver and looking for signs, and the GPS suggesting routes but always giving the position to confirm where we were. We were able to choose much faster routes when necessary this way.
All of the other comments about the joys of travel in Ireland are spot-on. It's a wonderful place to travel.
4 of 5 found the following review helpful:
Definately recommend for London and the CotswoldsJun 23, 2009
Just returned from U.K. and could not have managed the driving nearly as well without this SD card for the garmin.
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