Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Garmin USA Metroguide CSD-ROM
This product appears to improve the accuracy of the GPS by putting the pointer almost on the centerline of the road. The mapping is generallly good, however the maps are about 3 to 5 years behind. The locations of some of the restaurants ect. are off by up to 1 to 3 miles. It will show the address on streets but they are sumetimes off. We use this product both in the auto and aircraft.
Rating:  - very good product
I purchased the MetroGuide for use with my StreetPilot (original version). With a large slab of memory (I bought 64mb) I can load the entire state of Oregon easily, or the I5 corridor from Canada to Mexico. This gives me street-level mapping with "you are here" capabilites, lists of restaurants and other businesses (obviously not completely up to date but pretty good), and as an unexpected bonus, all of the forest service, private, and logging roads that I have been on, which makes this more than a "metro" guide. It also has navigational markers (who knew there were so many in the Columbia River?), mountain peaks with elevations. It is also updated regularly by Garmin to address bugs (but not to change actual content).Cons: the "find" command is clunky and hard to use (works better on the GPS). Apparently could be used for trip planning but has minimal functionality in that department. No way to get updated content. No campgrounds, monuments, historical sites or markers. When I bought my GPS, the dealer recommended buying the MetroGuide as the best product for the StreetPilot (I was looking at Roads and Rec but he said MG was way better). Looking at comparision maps on the Garmin site, I'd agree, the MG has it hands down over Roads and Rec. Not a perfect product but a heck of a lot of mapping that can get stuffed into a handheld device.
Rating:  - Don't go for a holiday without this!
I'm using this with a Garmin eTrex Vista. Been quite useful so far, especially just to keep track of where you are (just about every road, big and small, in the US is in the map) or when you're in a new place and you just want to find the closest Italian restaurant with the GPS of yours. (Of course it probably only works with selected Garmin GPSs)Maps in this CD are about 2 or 3 years old so some new roads will probably be missing. Each city map takes about 7Mb and with the eTrex's serial connection to the PC, it takes ages to upload. Once you finally get over the uploading time, its a bliss. Like you're in control of everything.
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