kidshibuya
Cruising
- Apr 17, 2018
- 5
- 4
What is a good option for navigation in Japan? I currently have a wahoo elemnt roam and its almost useless. Constantly just crashes when cycling though Tokyo and often it just gives up, I have so many pics of the unit just displaying the black arrow and nothing more, I just have to guess where to go.
Anyway I have also tried an edge 1030 plus and instantly returned it, no Japan maps, trying to download 3rd party maps was surprisingly difficult plus garmin support was terrible when I asked if I could just buy Japan maps, their answer was NO!!!.
Now I am looking at at Karoo 2 but cannot find any useful information on it. Has anyone tried it in Japan or anywhere outside of US or EU? What maps does it use and how to you put new maps on? Can it search and return results in English for Japan? Need an answer to that one as the wahoo technically supports this but I can very rarely get any results when I search on the unit, I always need to pick a spot off the map and hope its close to where I am going.
Of course I have found any android phone to be perfect for navigation, google maps seems to take me on great cycling routes, but phones are heavy and I have broken two mounts, I am sick of my phone bouncing across the road. Plus the sun in summer on the phone screen, it gets scary hot.
Anyway I have also tried an edge 1030 plus and instantly returned it, no Japan maps, trying to download 3rd party maps was surprisingly difficult plus garmin support was terrible when I asked if I could just buy Japan maps, their answer was NO!!!.
Now I am looking at at Karoo 2 but cannot find any useful information on it. Has anyone tried it in Japan or anywhere outside of US or EU? What maps does it use and how to you put new maps on? Can it search and return results in English for Japan? Need an answer to that one as the wahoo technically supports this but I can very rarely get any results when I search on the unit, I always need to pick a spot off the map and hope its close to where I am going.
Of course I have found any android phone to be perfect for navigation, google maps seems to take me on great cycling routes, but phones are heavy and I have broken two mounts, I am sick of my phone bouncing across the road. Plus the sun in summer on the phone screen, it gets scary hot.