tom tom 2 / laptop

JUSTSPEED · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jan 20, 2004 Posts: 27

Hi can anyone help here, i was wondering if tom tom2 can be put on a laptop ? instead of on a pda?

Darren · Posted: Tue Jan 20, 2004 10:27 pm Post subject:

It will only work on PDA's, sorry Sad

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JUSTSPEED · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jan 20, 2004 Posts: 27

i'm a bit sad now Crying or Very sad

, is there any other's that you can use on a laptop that is good as tom tom 2 ?

Darren · Posted: Tue Jan 20, 2004 10:42 pm Post subject:

Well there is a dedicated PC Nav app called InfoMap Navigator which is not bad at all, we've reviewed it here.
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JUSTSPEED · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jan 20, 2004 Posts: 27

cheers Daren for the quick response, i was looking at that earlier on and do you know if you can store address's on here and how many, is this software new on the market ?

thanks for your help

Darren · Posted: Tue Jan 20, 2004 10:55 pm Post subject:

It's been about for a while now and has gone through various releases and upgrades. Given it can navigate to a UK PostCode It's superb value and I have no idea why it is has received such little coverage!

I'm not sure that you can store addresses directly within InfoMap itself but given you'll be running this on a laptop it would be a simple process to store addresses elsewhere and then just enter the Post Code as your destination Thumbs Up

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Copilotadvice · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jan 12, 2004 Posts: 7

You might be interested to know that CoPilot Live Laptop 7 is now, as of today, officially avail in UK. Has all of Europe at street level, all the functionality of CoPilot Live PPC4, plus some other new features. Can be bought at http://www.mobiledatadirect.co.uk/product_info.php?products_id=915 Wink

JUSTSPEED · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jan 20, 2004 Posts: 27

hi thanks for that, are you using co-pilot? i did use the earlier version of co-pilot and found it a waste of time.

let us know how good it is as i can not find any reviews.

cya

Copilotadvice · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jan 12, 2004 Posts: 7

Hi Justspeed, I'd be interested to understand which earlier version of CoPilot Laptop you've been using, as this is the first version released in Europe :|

It provides everything that CoPilot Live PPC4 offers (live tracking, detailed turn-by-tuyrn directions, borderless routing etc) ... on a laptop.

I believe that there'll be a comprehensive review up on this site shortly ...

As for waste of time, I trust you were you using a GPS receiver?

MrT · Posted: Fri Jan 23, 2004 3:21 pm Post subject: Laptop

I must admit the thought of having a laptop on your dashboard for navigating is a bit disconcerting.

JUSTSPEED · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jan 20, 2004 Posts: 27

hi it was pocket co-pilot 3.5 and sorry this was not for the laptops.

this new one for the laptop does it take full post code?

Copilotadvice · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jan 12, 2004 Posts: 7

It has the first 4 or 5 digits, but not the entire postcode. So you can input WC1A 2 for example. It does however have very comprehensive street address data, and POIs that include Speed Camera locations. If by chance the address isn't there, you can pick a stop from the map. Also has route optimisation (put in 10 stops and it will work out the best route to take between them all)

alix776 · Posted: Sat Jan 24, 2004 11:42 pm Post subject:

justspeed what are you driving maybe i can help
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MrT · Posted: Mon Jan 26, 2004 8:10 pm Post subject: Another laptop program

There is a program on the continent from www.alturion.com and you can buy add on European maps that include the UK. It also works on the pocket pc.

I have played with it on a friends laptop in a dutch version with UK map(not with live GPS) but not seen it on a handheld and the few routes I tried to get it to navigate it took some very odd turns such as leaving the A11 and going through Newmarket to get to Thetford. It has waypoints a bit like AutoRoute but these again were stops for zero minutes. It could have been the way it was configured on the laptop.

I don't think you can buy it in the UK but it is available from the manufacturers online but by the time you have converted it for the UK with add on maps it seems very expensive.

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