travelling to Italy with my 650: qq about maps, gps, et al

[Bella]

Need some assistance from you superusers out there. In a couple weeks, I will be travelling to Italy. I have a lot of questions:

phone use: As I understand it, my options with my [unlocked, using Cingular] Treo 650 are EITHER pay international roaming fees OR buy an Italian sim card, which is prepaid. That sound right?

maps: google mobile is great, and it was easy to download maps for Rome and Florence. With my laptop I customized google maps (new feature in Google Maps called My maps) to show my hotel, restaurants, bars, etc.
How can I get those maps to my Treo? Will they still be interactive?

gps: I read the reviews on this site. Most people seem to be recommending the Tom-Tom maps, at least in the US. Are their Tom-Tom maps for Europe? or--better yet--a gps receiver that will work with Google maps?

Thanks y'all.
Bella

[TazUk]

Originally Posted by Bella

How can I get those maps to my Treo? Will they still be interactive?

You can run Google maps on your Treo, have a look here

Are their Tom-Tom maps for Europe? or--better yet--a gps receiver that will work with Google maps?

TomTom is the number one GPS solution in Europe, you can buy either the complete maps of Western Europe or individual countries/cities.

I'm not sure the mobile version of Google Maps supports a GPS receiver

[Bella]

Thanks, Taz.

So.. now that I have my treo running google maps, do you how I import my customized google map of Rome that I made on my laptop?

[TazUk]

Erm, no