City Navigator Israel Nt

• Includes highways, interstates, and business and residential roads in metropolitan and rural areas.
• Includes turn restrictions, roundabout guidance, speed categories.
• Gives turn-by-turn directions.

I bought the Garmin City Navigator Israel for a recent trip to Israel--our first visit there, and we were driving around to quite a few places in a rental car. I was not sure if we needed it or if paper maps would be good enough. I was really, really glad I bought it! It was a great help--it had all of the places we were looking for and accurate and easy to follow directions. It is very current (I think it is new). We were really happy with it. A tip for using it--the spelling of street names can be different in the gps than the ones you have, so, if you don't find the street by spelling it, browse through the street names list and you'll almost always find it with a slightly different spelling. It was very good for finding a gas station and "points of interest" as well. Jerusalem was very challenging for driving around, and we would have been hopelessly lost without the City Navigator--but with it we got around very well. I had a little bit of trouble putting the sd card into the gps--I didnt realize that you had to remove the larger adaptor card and just stick the tiny little sd card itself into the gps. I bought the card because I saw online that a lot of people had trouble with the downloaded version. It was a little challenging getting the nuvi to recognize the map when I first installed it--you have to go through several steps with the settings in the gps to tell it to look for another map (I found the directions for how to do this on someone's blog the web, not in the manual!)but once I got that set it worked great. Highly recommended if you are driving around Israel. One humorous thing--the nuvi voice has a very hard time pronouncing Hebrew names, and the pronunciations of the street names were hilarious. Sometimes it seemed to give up entirely and just garbled the name completely. We could always figure it out, but it was really funny.

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This is a great map of Israel. It works very well for both driving and walking. It provides excellent turn-by-turn directions. It is far superior to maps from other companies and Israeli GPS vendors that I have used in the past.

There are three things that any buyer should know.

First, in order to accommodate Hebrew and Arabic translations, many city or street names may be spelled in an unusual or inconsistent manner. For example, when looking something a up a name consider "K", "KH" "H" or "C" for the "CH" sound, or "J" or "Y" for an "I" sound. Also consider that apostrophes are often used when spelling single or compound words.

Second, the map has a political bent and may act unusually in areas that are outside the "Green Line". To get to many of these cities you may have to restart the system or specifically ask it to provide directions in "Area C". After that, it will work great. In our recent travels at no time did the GPS recommend any unsafe routes, but a little knowledge of history and geopolitics is helpful for best usage.

Third, oral pronunciations into English may not sound exactly like you would expect. However, this can be more entertaining than annoying and is not really a problem.

Overall, I strongly recommend this product for safe and hassle free travel in Israel.

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The Israel version of Garmin City Navigator is okay. We used it for both local and distance driving during a three week stay in Israel. Sometimes the directions are spot on, as when we visited a home in Ma'ale Adumim east of Jerusalem. Other times they are maddeningly incomplete, as when it told us to "stay left" on the road, only to find that the next turn was from the far right lane--we therefore missed the turn and had to double back. Other times, road or Exit names were incorrect, though the actual turn was correct. Also, the audio often fails to alert you to upcoming turns, so you need to watch teh map frequently and be vigilant.

Overall it's far better to have this than not. But if you use it, when there's a conflict between the name and the image on the map, go with the map--we found that the image was always right.

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I am in Israel now and using the map on my Garmin GPS. Works great addresses and points of interest are easy to find.

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Since Hertz would not guarantee a GPS with the car I will be renting in Israel, Plan B was to buy Garmin's Israel Maps SD card and use it with my 1490. The installation is a nonevent and the maps seem to be quite complete. Plus the SD card is usable in many Garmin units, so I others can borrow it when they go to visit. A win-win.