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- Not all garmins come with a micro sd card but AFAIK all of the touring series do.
- The maps vary from device to device, the touring series are supplied with and use open street map.
- See answer to 2
You can buy additional maps for the garmin such as City navigator europe and for the UK ordnance survey maps but these are at 1:50,000 scale and pixellate at higher zoom levels.
The city navigator series fully support post code search but lack the detail of openstreetmap.
- Not all garmins come with a micro sd card but AFAIK all of the touring series do.
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Diamond_Supercool
Thanks again. Three questions then.
1) Do all Garmins come supplied with a microSD card already loaded with maps? I.e. should the bloke who sold it to me on eBay have supplied the card?
2) Who provides this mapping?
3) If I buy a microSD card myself, and download onto it the OSM maps from this excellent site (linked to by @freezing77 above), will the mapping functionality be as good as the maps that come on the card usually supplied with the Garmin itself?