FAQ: What is the difference between the basemap and City Select maps?

The basemap is a very crude map, which the user cannot change. Think of it as a 1:500.000 roadmap, which you can use for driving long distances over major roads. The basemap displays only highways, some major roads, large lakes and rivers, large cities and country borders. It has no highwayramps (thus only giving you a general turn direction at highway crossings) and the only POI's it has are highway services.

City Select is more like a 1:50.000 roadmap, which you use when going off the highway. It has most of the paved roads and some dirt roads, shows roundabouts and highway ramps, most streams, rivers and lakes, forrests and parks, city outlines and industrial zones and more. It also has a large variaty of POI's to search from.

How do the maps compare when loaded on the Quest? See for yourself below, left are the basemap screencaptures, right are the City Select 6 screencaptures at the same zoomlevel, with the Quest set to display More Detail and displaying dutch datafields.

	At 8km zoomlevel, the difference in detail is not very high
	At 3km zoom, you can easily see the difference in detail. Notice the basemap is now in overzoom mode, so this is too accurate for the basemap. City Select now also starts to show the woodland area's and minor roads. You can see that the basemap draws roads with longer straight lines (segments). This is because each road segment uses memory and the basemap should be very compact to fit into memory.
	Here you see the full detail of City Select. It now also shows all townroads. The basemap looks like a kids drawing now and is very inaccurate.

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