Originally Posted by Russ Roth

Be slightly careful where you buy your garmin from, I bought my edge explore from a Euro site for under 200 and, logically enough, it came with maps of the EU. Garmin doesn't seem to appreciate people saving money by buying from overseas and upcharges significantly for a US map. I ended up finding regional maps of the US that include more details than the garmin maps have so I upload those as needed and rides that use mapping to tell you where to go always have their own garmin file to download to it anyways so haven't needed the garmin US map. I do have had an updated map of Europe that been waiting to be downloaded for the last 5 years, hoping I get to use it next sept.