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Will my UK sourced Edge 200 and/or F<span style="font-size: 0.8rem;">orerunner 610 work in Canada? </span>

Only looking to use the tracking functions

And yes, i appreciate that the G in GPS stands for Global....


 
Posted : 03/06/2018 9:12 pm
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Yep GPS be global so it will track you, might take a while to lock on so switch it on when you get there and let it find out where it is before you ride.


 
Posted : 03/06/2018 9:15 pm
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Marvelous, thank you.


 
Posted : 03/06/2018 9:16 pm
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Yes, sync to Garmin Express / Connect before leaving so it has up to date GPS data. My Garmin takes less than 30 seconds to get a lock after being dragged 7000 miles.


 
Posted : 03/06/2018 10:36 pm
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My UK Forerunner has worked fine since I got to Canada, so.... yes.


 
Posted : 03/06/2018 10:45 pm
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My NZ based one has worked fine in the French Alps, Central Asia and ****stan.  I'm sure Canada will be no issue


 
Posted : 03/06/2018 11:13 pm
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You might just find that there’s an option to change the projection to one that matches your bit of the globe a bit better. Given the globe isn’t actually a sphere, this might help slightly with altitude data in particular.


 
Posted : 04/06/2018 1:49 am
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My old Harmon worked fine just had to change the grid system if you want to use the grid references for paper maps.


 
Posted : 04/06/2018 8:09 am
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What Flaperon said.  My old Garmin didn't take long to sort itself out in all the places I go to around the world.

Elemnt Bolt is working a treat in Durban at the moment 🙂


 
Posted : 04/06/2018 8:48 am
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It will work, mine travel all over the world with me.

Stick the free OpenStreetmap maps on it and you will even get maps working 😀


 
Posted : 04/06/2018 10:24 am
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I use a garmin forerunner with the connect app when i go to Canada.

only issue i found, was that it didn’t recognise when i skated along a canal 😂😂😂

other than that, worked perfectly 👍


 
Posted : 04/06/2018 10:29 am

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