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Joined: Nov 29, 2004 Posts: 303 Location: West Sussex
Posted: Mon May 29, 2006 10:57 pm Post subject: Checkpoint / POIWarner
Bear with me...can I use Checkpoint or POIWarner with CP6 ? I'm currently running TT5 with Warner and have just invested in a new phone/copilot deal with T Mobile, so now have the 'luxury?' of two systems, but after 4 years with TT, I'm struggling to find my way around CP...seems that they have some cameras already built in...I assume that thye can be updated etc.somehow or other ?
Be aware that the PPC version of CP 6 has two methods of updating POIs:
OV2 files - like TomTom
the "old" Copilot method.
There are threads on this forum on which the differences between the two methods, and some issues, are discussed. I don't know if the smartphone version uses both methods. _________________ Dell Axims X50v & X30 (both WM 2003 2nd Edition). Copilot BTGPS3 and Fortuna Clip-on BT receivers. Jabra BT 250 audio headsets. Welltech 40032/AF32 BT handsfree audio. Copilot 6.0.4.110. TomTom Navigator 5.21. MS Autoroute/Pocket Streets 2005
Joined: Nov 29, 2004 Posts: 303 Location: West Sussex
Posted: Tue May 30, 2006 7:03 pm Post subject:
I thought that I would also take a look at installing the 6.0.1.68 patch using Async, but then I saw the 12 pages of instructions....12 pages ? I shall be sitting here all night at that rate..so will save that for another day.
Joined: Aug 25, 2004 Posts: 634 Location: Lincolnshire, England
Posted: Wed May 31, 2006 2:11 pm Post subject:
Mikeact wrote:
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...I see that you use TT 5 as well....how do you find CP6 in comparison ?
That would be a long story. There are several threads on the forum on which some comparative points are discussed although, as far as I know, a feature-by-feature comparison has yet to be produced.
I list a few of CP 6’s pluses below:
Route pre-planning on the PPC. Copilot allows route planning without a GPS fix, and the routes can be saved for later use. While TomTom appears to offers an equivalent facility, it is not nearly equivalent.
Route pre-planning on the desktop PC. Copilot enables routes to be calculated on a desktop PC then downloaded onto the PPC. This means, for example, that transport managers who need a high degree of control over itineraries can give drivers their routes, pre-planned, on an SD card, by email, etc. TomTom has nothing comparable.
Waypoints. Copilot allows waypoints to enable tailoring of the route to suit the user. Again, although TomTom appears on the face of it to offer such a facility, it is nowhere near comparable.
Route optimisation. Copilot will calculate the optimum route between a number of waypoints. TomTom has no such facility.
Stops can be picked by stylus in any map screen. TomTom allows this in one (I think) screen only.
Quick route calculation. Copilot calculates long routes almost without delay, whereas TomTom requires a definite waiting period for all but the shortest trips.
Suspend GPS reception. On my hardware, at least, Copilot will run in the background while another small GPS-based programme is run (e.g. Pocket Streets or Visual GPS CE). TomTom cannot do this as suspend GPS is not included in the TT 5 version.
Flexible licence transfer arrangements. Copilot can be simply transferred from one PPC to another using an efficient online de-registration/re-registration procedure. TomTom’s procedure involves producing receipts and making out a case to the company.
Some of the advantages of TomTom are:
Much more fully featured, logical and practical system of POI management and use than offered by Copilot.
Favourites and Recent Destinations/Stops in separate lists.
Street and town names shown at sensible map scales. Copilot completely fails in this respect and thereby makes most of facilities I have listed as pluses often prohibitively difficult to use.
Easy to obtain a view of the whole route and zoom from there to the portion required. View includes POIs - and town and street names as above. Copilot fails to include this important routing information in the relevant screens.
Quick display of any point on itinerary. Copilot does this for Start, stops and Destination only.stops and
Centre map on selected point, including present GPS position. With Copilot, it involves laborious scrolling and panning - which is impeded by relatively slow graphics.
Much smoother graphics, and slicker. TomTom’s look and feel is more 2006 while Copilot’s is more 2000 or thereabouts.
Apparently more attention to detail when testing, dealing with bugs, etc. Copilot's latest patch has come out with many of the bugs that have been reported. These includes, on some hardware, crackling voice instructions.
The above is not comprehensive, but reflects what I have discovered when using the programmes for my purposes.
I would add that both programmes produce some infuriating routing anomalies. I have found TomTom more likely to spring silly surprises en route, like creating a loop wherein the driver is repeatedly sent chasing his or her tail through repeated about-turns. Some of Copilot’s more sophisticated features themselves produce errors; notably, routes through waypoints sometimes end up contorted and illogical. Work is needed on both to produce what I would describe as a good general purpose navigator.
As I implied before, I don't know how much of the apove applies to the Smartphone version of Copilot. _________________ Dell Axims X50v & X30 (both WM 2003 2nd Edition). Copilot BTGPS3 and Fortuna Clip-on BT receivers. Jabra BT 250 audio headsets. Welltech 40032/AF32 BT handsfree audio. Copilot 6.0.4.110. TomTom Navigator 5.21. MS Autoroute/Pocket Streets 2005
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