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| Max... |
 Posted: Sun Jun 01, 2008 10:22 am |
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What brand of portable GPS (such as the Garmin eTrex series) would
provide me with detailed street level information, including street
names and POIs, in Japan ? I will be traveling mainly in Tokyo.
Thank you,
Max |
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| Max... |
| Posted: Sun Jun 01, 2008 1:06 pm |
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Thanks, but this software is not complete, from what I understand.
http://www.uud.info/en/ says:
"List of Limitations: [...] there is no street names on the map
[...]" (except for "[...] major highways and national roads [...]").
I am looking for a complete map.
Regards,
Max
On Jun 1, 5:41 pm, Burnie M <burn... at (no spam) ozemail.com.au> wrote:
Quote: http://www.uud.info/
On Sun, 1 Jun 2008 13:22:35 -0700 (PDT), Max <Maxime.Pla... at (no spam) gmail.com
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What brand of portable GPS (such as the Garmin eTrex series) would
provide me with detailed street level information, including street
names and POIs, in Japan ? I will be traveling mainly in Tokyo.
Thank you,
Max |
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| Burnie M... |
| Posted: Sun Jun 01, 2008 4:41 pm |
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http://www.uud.info/
On Sun, 1 Jun 2008 13:22:35 -0700 (PDT), Max <Maxime.Plante at (no spam) gmail.com>
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Quote: What brand of portable GPS (such as the Garmin eTrex series) would
provide me with detailed street level information, including street
names and POIs, in Japan ? I will be traveling mainly in Tokyo.
Thank you,
Max |
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| Max... |
| Posted: Mon Jun 02, 2008 2:11 am |
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Thanks Burnie,
It would be nice for Garmin to offer an English language guide, even
if street names should be in Japanese (or English and Japanese). After
all, I bet international visitors really need directions in Japan! ;)
However, does anyone know of any other company offering a handheld GPS
that could run Japan maps ?
Cheers,
Max
On Jun 2, 4:47 am, Burnie M <burn... at (no spam) ozemail.com.au> wrote:
Quote: The only complete mapping is Garmins City Navigator Japan which uses
the Japanese alphabet
On Sun, 1 Jun 2008 16:06:32 -0700 (PDT), Max <Maxime.Pla... at (no spam) gmail.com
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Thanks, but this software is not complete, from what I understand.
http://www.uud.info/en/says:
"List of Limitations: [...] there is no street names on the map
[...]" (except for "[...] major highways and national roads [...]").
I am looking for a complete map.
Regards,
Max
On Jun 1, 5:41 pm, Burnie M <burn... at (no spam) ozemail.com.au> wrote:
http://www.uud.info/
On Sun, 1 Jun 2008 13:22:35 -0700 (PDT), Max <Maxime.Pla... at (no spam) gmail.com
wrote:
What brand of portable GPS (such as the Garmin eTrex series) would
provide me with detailed street level information, including street
names and POIs, in Japan ? I will be traveling mainly in Tokyo.
Thank you,
Max |
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| Alan Burnstine... |
| Posted: Sat Jun 07, 2008 2:51 pm |
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Max wrote:
Quote: Thanks, but this software is not complete, from what I understand.
http://www.uud.info/en/ says:
"List of Limitations: [...] there is no street names on the map
[...]" (except for "[...] major highways and national roads [...]").
I am looking for a complete map.
Regards,
Max
On Jun 1, 5:41 pm, Burnie M <burn... at (no spam) ozemail.com.au> wrote:
http://www.uud.info/
On Sun, 1 Jun 2008 13:22:35 -0700 (PDT), Max <Maxime.Pla... at (no spam) gmail.com
wrote:
What brand of portable GPS (such as the Garmin eTrex series) would
provide me with detailed street level information, including street
names and POIs, in Japan ? I will be traveling mainly in Tokyo.
Thank you,
Max
I purchased this last year prior to my trip to Tokyo and Kyoto. Even
with only highways and major streets labeled, I found it quite useful
for finding my way. Note: I did not have a car, relied on walking and
public transport. Even with the auto-routing, I don't know if I would
want to use it for driving in Tokyo since it doesn't know all of the one
way restrictions.
I used Google Maps and Google Earth in combination with a couple of
really good paper maps to create waypoints in the GPS. The streets were
very accurately located, and I used the GPS often and reliably to
navigate to the waypoints. The hardest part was learning the weird
Japanese addressing. Once I got the hang of it, the GPS got me to the
right block every time, and often to the right building when it's
location was known to Google or on the paper map.
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