GPS Newbie - Tom Tom, Navman or other for Ipaq 3970?

Halfpiste · Posted: Thu Dec 18, 2003 11:49 am Post subject:

mmmm Atomic Kitten...nice! Got my clip and mount from here:

http://www.handnav.co.uk/html/product.php?brand=In-Car%20Mount&category=ACCESSORIES#968529PROCLIP

It's car-specific so make sure you choose the right one. Think RIAA Technologies sell them too.

Colin

JB · Occasional Visitor Joined: Dec 17, 2003 Posts: 10

All sorted!

Navman 3450, 512MB SD Card, Brodit ProClip and iPAQ Complete Solution mount ordered.

I'll blame you all if it's crap or doesn't work!! Wink

Have a great Christmas and thanks all.

Jules

Darren · Posted: Thu Dec 18, 2003 2:18 pm Post subject:

Dave · Posted: Thu Dec 18, 2003 3:45 pm Post subject:

Blum · Posted: Thu Dec 18, 2003 4:07 pm Post subject:

I am also looking for similar. I have come down to Tomtom2 or Destinator3.
Destinator3 gets the best review and is available on ebay at £195 with wired GPS.
TT2 seems to have missing towns D3 has trouble with roundabouts.

BTW any body else notices that the Tomtom online demonstration goes the long way around? It goes Greek Street, L Old Compton St. L Charing Cross Rd. R Phoenix St. R Stacey St. R Shaftsbury Ave. L Charring Cross Rd.
What can be done is Greek Street L Shaftsbury Ave. R Charing Cross Rd

Believe a Licensed London Cab driver!

DavidW · Posted: Sat Dec 20, 2003 1:48 am Post subject:

I've just experimented with the route fragment you mention. I'm familiar with many bits of Central London, but not that one (there again, I don't have a Green Badge!).

It looks to be a glitch in the map data if what you say is right - Navigator doesn't seem to believe that the right turn into Charing Cross Road southbound from Shaftesbury Avenue eastbound is allowed. If you set what would just be that turn as a route, it'll go round the block somewhere to achieve it.

So far as missing towns goes, there are some issues with the place name data in TomTom Navigator 2. The data is organised along local government boundaries, which can mean certain places aren't listed as where you think they are, and that, coupled with the lack of support for full postcodes (not least because a full postcode database is a significant quantity of data) can make finding some places difficult.

There are also some outright errors - the easiest way to search for streets in London is to enter London, which comes up as London (City of London). Of course, that should mean you only get streets in the City, but you don't - you certainly can find streets in Westminster and Camden using that setting!

The roads are invariably there - sometimes repeatedly zooming into the map and placing the destination marker using the stylus is the easiest way to proceed. I haven't ever failed to find a location and had to resort to external means (like getting WGS84 coordinates from multimap.com) save for when I was trying to give the exact location of the car park at Donington Park to someone (the POI data was less than useful). Others have not been so fortunate.

David

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