Garmin GB Discoverer Maps Available
Garmin announced GB Discoverer, a new outdoor mapping product for Great Britain, in October. Today users are reporting that they are finally getting their hands on GB Discoverer which is supported on the Oregon, Colorado and Nuvi 550.
GB Discoverer maps are sold as regional maps in microSD format. Each microSD card provides a complete 1:250k routeable map for Great Britain based on Navteq road data. In addition it includes rasterized Ordinance Survey maps (1:25k scale) for selected National Parks region on the card. The complete list of maps and data included:
- Ordnance Survey 1:25k map for the region.
- Ordnance Survey 1:50k map for the region.
- Ordnance Survey 1:250k map for the whole of Great Britain.
- Ordnance Survey 1:1M map for the whole of Great Britain.
- Full Navteq road network for the whole of Great Britain.
- Full Navteq address database for the whole of Great Britain.
- Full Navteq POI database for the whole of Great Britain.
- Allows turn-by-turn navigation on road.
- Allows the user to search for and navigate to pre-loaded Points of Interest, such as accommodation, food and drink, car parks, banks, petrol stations, attractions, camp sites, trig points and more.
The list of available regions is here.
Outdoorgb.com and wiggle are listing the products for a little more than £100 per region.
I’m watching this new product with some interest since it seems to be another example of Garmin’s support for raster maps on the Colorado and Oregon platform. With custom raster map support already available on the DeLorme PN-40 I’m hoping we might see a similar move by Garmin on the Oregon and Colorado — maybe at CES 2009?
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January 13th, 2009 at 8:08 am
I also have been watching this product with antisipation but was a little disapointed when garmin annouced the 1:25k regions but have not yet released the 1:50k card for the whole of the uk. the 1:50k version is avalible from garmin as a bundle with the Oregon 300 but i already have a Oregon 200 and dont realy wana upgarde for the sake of the maps.
Please garmin give the people what they want and thats the 1:50k whole of the UK. How difficult would it be. Its already there just allow people to buy it.
That said any news on when it is goign to be released as a seperate item.
January 16th, 2009 at 11:27 am
Well, I’ve on my desk in front of me I have a brand new Oregon 300 and the GB Discoverer Lake District 1:25k scale maps card. I should be doing some hiking in the lake district next weekend, so I’ll let you know how I get on… I’ve never used an outdoors gps before, so I won’t have much to compare – but I’ll give it a shot.