Garmin GPS 18 Deluxe USB GPS Sensor with nRoute and City Select Navigation Software

Average customer rating: 4.0

Sound product, great price, data needs update
Fun - Easy - Family History
RV use
Its a cool gadget but not worth its price...
Very good tracking

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Garmin GPS 18 Deluxe USB GPS Sensor with nRoute and City Select Navigation Software

Manufacturer: Garmin
Product Group: CE
Binding: Electronics
ASIN: B0002HS1A2

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Amazon.com Product Description

Traveling with your laptop on business or vacation? Garmin's GPS 18 global-positioning sensor is a simple, convenient, and inexpensive way to turn your PC laptop into a personal navigator. The GPS sensor is bundled with nRoute and City Select navigation software that automatically guides you with turn-by-turn directions and voice prompts to get you safely to your destination. Similar to Garmin's MapSource software, nRoute features an easy-to-use interface, making its operation intuitive so you can focus on driving. It offers auto-routing and voice-prompting capabilities for virtually any address. The GPS 18 package also includes City Select North America map data with detailed maps of the United States and select cities in Canada. This data is fully unlocked, and map detail includes highways, interstates, business roads, and residential roads, with turn restrictions, speed categories, and other navigation features. Its more than 5 million points of interest include restaurants, lodging, attractions, shopping, emergency services, post offices, among others. The GPS 18 includes a 12-parallel-channel, WAAS-enabled sensor/receiver just 2.4 inches in diameter with an integrated magnetic base. The receiver connects to your PC via a USB interface, high-speed 2.0 with USB 1.1 compatibility, and it's powered via your computer so you'll never have to change batteries. What's in the Box
GPS 18 sensor with USB connection, integrated magnetic base, automotive windshield mount, nRoute with City Select North America map data (full unlock), owner's manual, and a quick-start guide.

Product Description

Turn your laptop PC into a powerful street navigator with the GPS 18 - a GPS sensor bundled with nRoute and City Select software that automatically guides you with turn-by-turn directions and voice prompts to get you safely to your destination. Similar to Garmin's MapSource software, nRoute features an easy-to-use interface, making it intuitive to operate so you can focus on driving. It offers auto-routing and voice-prompting capabilities to virtually any address. The GPS 18 package also includes City Select North America map data with detailed maps of the United States and select cities in Canada. This data is fully unlocked, and map detail includes highways, interstates, business and residential roads, with turn restrictions, speed categories, and other navigation features. It also features more than five million points of interest including restaurants, lodging, attractions, shopping, emergency services, post offices, and more. The GPS 18 includes a 12 parallel channel, WAAS-enabled sensor, available with either a PC or USB connection. The receiver includes an integrated magnetic base and is less than three inches in diameter. Traveling with your laptop on business or vacation? The GPS 18 is a simple, convenient, inexpensive way to turn your PC laptop into a personal navigator to get you where you're going.

Customer Reviews:

Sound product, great price, data needs update.......2007-06-12

Great purchase overall! I looked for a GPS unit for an affordable price and have a laptop PC available in my car at all times. Also, I use this device mainly within one city and found it to be tremendously helpful, especially when taking the price into consideration. The chosen routes are quick, direct and the accuracy remarkable. Due to the laptop availability in my car, I preferred its larger screen to the (more expensive) smaller handheld devices. The only drawback I have seen so far is the somewhat outdated street data in newer sections of the city/county. New developments that were built two years ago, still only show undeveloped area and no streets. If they would keep this data more up to date it would receive a definite 5-star-rating from me.

Fun - Easy - Family History.......2007-06-03

Great Product and makes travel more interesting and easier to find many different kinds of locations. Very quick and accurate. The trip information is helpful. I was surprised at the detail of the maps. Installed on my new Vista HP laptop. Note: it will not install on Vista unless you turn off User Account Control (UAC). Called Garmin support (great guys and friendly) to find this out. After that change it installed without problems. I'm going to use it to find and mark special family history locations. Old family farms, house where I grew up, rural cemetery locations, burial sites, favorite fishing spots and more. The plan is to use the Garmin 18 to get me within walking distance. Then I will switch to my handheld Garmin eTrex Legend GPS Navigator to walk right to the location. Finally I will put the coordinates into my heritage collector software for permanent storage and reference. This was a great birthday present for me from my family! If you don't want to pay the big bucks for a GPS navigation system, this is for you!

RV use.......2007-05-14

I own a 40' rv and used this system over this past weekend. It worked great, even with the antenna placed on the dash rather then mounted outside. Just be aware that it will provide the most direct route, so if you are RVing make sure you are ok with that as it will not automatically take you via interstate.

Its a cool gadget but not worth its price..........2007-05-14

well for something that requires your laptop, it makes the whole trip bulky, however its a cool gadget if it were cheaper...

Very good tracking.......2007-05-13

I am very impressed with this product. It far, far more sensitive to satellite reception than my Garmin Etrex Legend. That handheld unit is fine but it's sensitivity to satellites is more restricted and much slower in making its initial acquisition of a satellite signal. The owner's manual said the GPS 18 could take several minutes for the intial acquisition but when I first put the antenna on the roof of my car I had excellent reception within a few seconds. Grant it that this GPS program has difficulty in busy cities (i.e. Seattle) or where there are tunnels (Seattle, again) but 99% of the time it has little or no difficulty while it's accuracy is anywhere between 7 and 9 feet of my actual position. My handheld unit has never been that accurate (it's only been as close to about 17 feet, although I have to accept the fact that we have a lot of trees and other things that can interfere with a signal). Using the program is fairly simple but don't even think about pushing buttons while you are driving. Set it up before you start moving. There is no way that can be overemphasized. Overall, I am very pleased.

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