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Joined: 02/11/2002 22:41:59 Posts: 11878 Location: Massachusetts, USA
Posted: Thu Jan 01, 2004 12:55 am Post subject:
Navtech is a map data provider (as is TeleAtlas), they don't sell street routing programs. Your PDA can run any of the street navigation programs, independent from the map data origin.
Navtech originated maps are more precise than TeleAtlas based maps, but the latter are more current. And to complicate mappters more, this also varies from state to state.
I would recommend you ignore the map data provider and rather focus on what is important for you in a street navigation program. There are plenty of them available for the US - Destinator, CoPilot, Mapopolis, ToimTom, TeleType etc etc. They all cover the areas that you entioned. _________________ Lutz
Joined: 12/08/2003 19:53:08 Posts: 264 Location: Secret Base in the Nevada Desert
Posted: Sat Jan 03, 2004 5:07 pm Post subject:
Hi
I use the TomTom Package in the USA on my Medion, and would recommend it as about the best overall, it does have its niggles but a lot less than some of the others
It will cost you about £130 in the UK, about $150 in the US, Its on 7 CDs and you can load in sections, so if you have a 1GB card you can load the whole of the USA, 256MB gives you about 1/3 of the US, I tend to keep 2 256MB cards loaded, 1 with West Coast and one with East Coast Its fairly hard to get lost on I10 in between the edges
Worth a look if you dont mind spending £130, depends on how much you use it, it my case 40k miles a year in the US makes it a worthwhile investment
Joined: 02/11/2002 22:41:59 Posts: 11878 Location: Massachusetts, USA
Posted: Sat Jan 03, 2004 5:26 pm Post subject:
I noticed I didn't answer your other question regarding the car navigation packages. For business reasons it is not possible to re-use those CDs even though they may be based on the same map provider. It is not in the vendor's interest to make map formats interchangeable, most times not even within different versions of the same program (remember TomTom 1 to 2 or Mapopolis NB to NC). The vendors have to buy the map data from the map providers regularly, and they need to get these costs covered somehow. _________________ Lutz
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