destinator 3 UK map

sam · Occasional Visitor Joined: Nov 30, 2003 Posts: 19

is the UK map in the destinator 3 still segmented as in destinator 2.?

jellied · Posted: Tue Dec 02, 2003 5:24 pm Post subject:

Who knows? PowerLOC are not saying. The German review I saw implies they fitted the whole of Germany into one segment.

Personally I will really miss having to work out which map to load before traveling, reloading the program half way through a journey, getting annoyed when you stray onto the border between two maps etc etc.

Routeplanners · Occasional Visitor Joined: Dec 02, 2003 Posts: 2

Its still in segments but its got a new feature where you can "cut" the sections your require. They can be as small or as large as you want to the limit of the memory card and processing.

jellied · Posted: Tue Dec 02, 2003 7:02 pm Post subject:

One would have thought with the amount of internal memory now available on PDAs these days they could have got round this, there again I am no expert and I expect there is some downside to accessing the maps from non-memory locations all the time.

To be honest all I really want from D3 is uploadable POI and a few little enhancements like how far to destination and ETA.

mbd_int · Posted: Tue Dec 02, 2003 8:04 pm Post subject:

I agree, Destinator 2.0 is really missing the "Safe Mode" feature (how it is called by CoPilot) -- just show me next maneuver, distance to it, total ETA, car speed on whole screen without the map!

saw this in TomTom snapshots, CoPilot, Magellan, ...

I currently spend too much time trying to locate the distance to the next turn and what kind of turn is that...

jellied · Posted: Tue Dec 02, 2003 8:15 pm Post subject:

Actually D2 already tells you how far to the next change of direction - this is so usefuly as you can position yourself in the correct lane, what I really want is the total distance before destination so you know to start looking for landmarks etc.

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