Keep Euro Maps or Install US Ones?
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Keep Euro Maps or Install US Ones?
This *may* be a dumb question, but if I can't pose it to my RL brethren who can I ask it to?
My .1 GTS Targa still has European maps loaded on the GPS from when we picked it up at Stuttgart. (The dealer forgot to install the domestic maps.)
As I typically use my phone for navigation, and as today's GPS platforms will certainly become obsolete over time, does it make any sense to keep my Europe maps as a sentimental token of the ED or should I just have the dealer load the U.S. ones?
The car goes into the dealer on Wednesday for routine maintenance and one factory recall.
My .1 GTS Targa still has European maps loaded on the GPS from when we picked it up at Stuttgart. (The dealer forgot to install the domestic maps.)
As I typically use my phone for navigation, and as today's GPS platforms will certainly become obsolete over time, does it make any sense to keep my Europe maps as a sentimental token of the ED or should I just have the dealer load the U.S. ones?
The car goes into the dealer on Wednesday for routine maintenance and one factory recall.
Racer
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If you rely on GPS as much as I do, I would have the dealer install the US maps. I mainly use either google maps or waze through my phone but the reliability has never been 100%. I found that the GPS antenna in the car is much better at GPS locks than my phone and would have to use it on occasion when my phone is unable to get the lock. This is especially true when I am in the city with lots of big skyscrapers .
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Why would you keep something that has no use to you or anyone else who might use your car? Wife? Next owner? Having just completed a Euro Delivery, I've got plenty of souvenirs. Why would I want something that may be nothing more than a conversation piece? You've got the tourist delivery license plates, what else is there?
Maybe I'm jaded by having done this a few times, but as I continue to age I find I want fewer useless things cluttering my life.
YMMV
Maybe I'm jaded by having done this a few times, but as I continue to age I find I want fewer useless things cluttering my life.
YMMV
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I'd get the US maps. Euro maps have no use and you probably can't even look at them so there would be no sentimental value anyway. That is what your license plate is for. 
Also, if you sell the car, the new buyer will want the US maps so get the dealer to install sooner than later.
Also, if you sell the car, the new buyer will want the US maps so get the dealer to install sooner than later.
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I think the GPS will still locate your car on whatever map is in the system, so without US maps, it'll just be the triangle on what, a blank white screen? You'll have to zoom out and scroll to see the "sentimental token" and after having to go find the continent a few times, how sentimental will you be about it?
Load the US maps.
Load the US maps.
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I think the GPS will still locate your car on whatever map is in the system, so without US maps, it'll just be the triangle on what, a blank white screen? You'll have to zoom out and scroll to see the "sentimental token" and after having to go find the continent a few times, how sentimental will you be about it?
Load the US maps.
Load the US maps.
I only know this because I just finished a Euro delivery with a 991.2 with US maps loaded. I could see where I was on a coarse basis but that is it.
Last edited by subshooter; Aug 5, 2017 at 03:08 PM.
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UPDATE AND FUN FACTS
My dealer installed the U.S. maps and, in the process, I learned a few things. Turns out that the process is not so simple.
1. For Euro Delivery cars, U.S. maps are installed at the pre-prep port in Europe before being shipped overseas. My dealer understandably had no clue on how to install U.S. maps and had to contact Atlanta for assistance.
2. U.S. cars that are optioned with European maps actually have both map versions permanently installed into the car's computer. The dealer and I originally thought it was an either/or proposition, but such is not the case.
3. My European destinations remain intact under 'Previous Destinations.'
4. Porsche continues to make the best darn car out there. Period.
1. For Euro Delivery cars, U.S. maps are installed at the pre-prep port in Europe before being shipped overseas. My dealer understandably had no clue on how to install U.S. maps and had to contact Atlanta for assistance.
2. U.S. cars that are optioned with European maps actually have both map versions permanently installed into the car's computer. The dealer and I originally thought it was an either/or proposition, but such is not the case.
3. My European destinations remain intact under 'Previous Destinations.'
4. Porsche continues to make the best darn car out there. Period.