Thread: Venus Series City Navigator China NT 2010.30 ENG in PinYin

Originally Posted by syzygy

Garmin's search is done by radial scan from a starting point, default to your current GPS position. To search items on a China or other map, you need to change the starting point to somewher on that map. This can be done by the "Near" function (a button or menu item) on your device's GUI.

Exactly, that was what we used in China : the search function. The device listed us the nearest metro or railway station, for instance, but you can use it
also for banks, road exits, hospitals, etc..... If the map is installed on your device, well...that's it, I think it's ok.
You say "I get street names but when I select a street there is no information for it", but keep in mind that it's not Google Maps you're looking at, man.
It's not exactly the same way to use, and since the map covers the whole territory of China, you can't have the same precision.
Anyway, it's largely sufficient to find your way and help you find roads, if you learn a little bit of Chinese pinyin terms beforehand, like :
bei = north, nan = south, xi = west, dong = east / lu = road, hence nanji lu = east ji road.
And for some adresses, we had to take care of the empty spaces : sometimes you don't know if you have to write the adresse in one or two words, eventually we tried both ways and got the answer, the map was really helpful in Beijing, always found the adresses we were looking at, even in small hutongs.