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Old 19 July 2007, 08:37 PM
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Hello

I'm going to drive to Poland in the next few weeks and have wanted an excuse to be a Satellite Navigation toy for quite a while.

The trouble is, I can't find one that has Poland on it! Any suggestions?

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Steve
Old 19 July 2007, 09:27 PM
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My Becker Traffic Assist Highspeed II 7988 has Poland on it, along with Slovakia, Lithuania etc which aren't usually included on European maps by other manufacturors. I've used it plenty in the UK and it's very good, and a mate of mine borrowed it to drive to Lithuania and back a few weeks ago, he said it worked just fine and it had loads of Polish waypoints stored when I got it back - so I know he used it!

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Old 19 July 2007, 09:33 PM
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Only directions you need in Poland is how to get out
Old 19 July 2007, 09:39 PM
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Originally Posted by what would scooby do
Only directions you need in Poland is how to get out
Well, I expect I shall certainly be going against the traffic

Thanks Iwan, I'll take a look.

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Old 20 July 2007, 09:19 AM
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Originally Posted by Iwan
My Becker Traffic Assist Highspeed II 7988 has Poland on it, along with Slovakia, Lithuania etc which aren't usually included on European maps by other manufacturors.
Nothing to do with Becker being a German manufacturer?
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Originally Posted by Brendan Hughes
Nothing to do with Becker being a German manufacturer?
Probably. I most other sat-nav manufacturors (that I looked at) seem to stop their maps at the edge of Germany/Austria/Czech.

Of course if you don't go to these places it's not a big deal, but if you do, it's a bit crap shopping for a sat-nav with European coverage only to find most of them cover only half of Europe.
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The reason that they don't do many sat-navs with Poland on them is that if you have a sat-nav in your car and take it to Poland, you'll probably leave without it

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Originally Posted by TSB Boy
The reason that they don't do many sat-navs with Poland on them is that if you have a sat-nav in your car and take it to Poland, you'll probably leave without it
So no different to England then
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Originally Posted by TSB Boy
The reason that they don't do many sat-navs with Poland on them is that if you have a sat-nav in your car and take it to Poland, you'll probably leave without it
More likely to have it stolen in Britain IMHO.
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Thank you for the replies.

The cheapest (okay) one that I can find (to answer my own question) is the Garmin Nuvi 250 (at about £160).

Steve
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Originally Posted by boxst
Thank you for the replies.

The cheapest (okay) one that I can find (to answer my own question) is the Garmin Nuvi 250 (at about £160).

Steve
So does it come with the German "Blitzkrieg edition" Poland maps then ?
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