Gran Canaria

mallet head

Hi all


I'm off to Gran Canaria for 2 weeks at Chrismas and am hiring a car. I am not one for sitting on beaches and will spend most days exploring the Island. I have a Garmin 310 and am wondering is there anywhere I can get maps of the canaries for it without spending wads of cash. I looked up the Garmin site and the relevant map is a couple of hundred quid.

Thanks in advance.

zing

mallet head wrote: »

Hi all


I'm off to Gran Canaria for 2 weeks at Chrismas and am hiring a car. I am not one for sitting on beaches and will spend most days exploring the Island. I have a Garmin 310 and am wondering is there anywhere I can get maps of the canaries for it without spending wads of cash. I looked up the Garmin site and the relevant map is a couple of hundred quid.

Thanks in advance.

Might be cheaper to rent a sat nav unit with the car if this is a one off ? Many rental companies will offer Garmin or TomTom units.

mallet head

zing wrote: »

Might be cheaper to rent a sat nav unit with the car if this is a one off ? Many rental companies will offer Garmin or TomTom units.

Thanks for the reply.


They are looking for 140 euros to hire a sat nav.

hughowen

Might be wrong here but I thought the 310 had all of Europe on disk which came with your satnav, might be worth checking
HughOwen

Aquos76

Nope, the 310 only has Ire and UK. The 360 has the same features as it, except that has the European maps included

http://www.mysatnav.ie/garmin-nuvi-310

hughowen

I used my Nuvi 310 in France and had no problems. I got the 310 with the European mapping including Canaries on a disc and just load what I need when I need it on the SD card

Hugh

Krusty_Clown

You could try and get your hands on Elsinga's Gran Canaria map.
More details here: http://home.elsinga.net/map_spain_grancanaria.html

Probably not very detailed, but free, and better than nowt!

Here's the map itself:
http://home.elsinga.net/gps/maps/SetupGranCanariaElsinga.zip

Krusty_Clown

Or this one, also hosted by Elsinga:
http://home.elsinga.net/map_spain_islascanarias.html

Map here: http://home.elsinga.net/gps/maps/SetupIslasCanarias.zip
Can you use mapsource to upload maps to a 310?

mallet head

Krusty_Clown wrote: »

Can you use mapsource to upload maps to a 310?

Cheers for that link.To answer your question I have no Idea. I only bought the garmin recently and have not had to upload anything onto it. I dont even know what to do with the zip file you linked me to so i'll be ringing a mate for tech help.

Krusty_Clown

They actually contain self-installing executables, but you would need Garmin's Mapsource product installed first..

You may have received this on DVD with your GPS unit. It's also available from Garmin's website, however, without the maps on DVD, it may not be too useful.