TomTom Go 700 or

gdavison · Occasional Visitor Joined: Oct 27, 2005 Posts: 45

Apologies as this is yet another "what would you buy" threads

I have been using a Garmin SPIII in the car for years for navigation in the UK running City Navigator 6 .. I loaded up the safety camera Database into it a few months ago, but as you all know the SPIII does not have the ability to audibly warn on approaching a POI .. so the SPIII only provides visual indication of the cameras ... Unfortunatly this morning a NIP arrived for 36mph in a 30 Zone Sad

I knew I had been flashed so was expecting it .. It was a classic I was watching the road, camera hidden behind trees, was not looking at the SPIII, following traffic etc etc. Own stupid fault .. To add to my "injury" the day I was flashed was my birthday as well Sad

Its made me decide I need a new in Car GPS and therefore am looking for fellow users advice on picking a unit.. I really like the routing and functionality of the SPIII (I also have 2 Garmin Vs which are used for geocaching) .. I don't want to just add a "road angel" or similar as I need the routing GPS and would like to do it all in one

Consideration is one of the new Garmins StreetPilots which now has a POI warning capability or the TomTom Go 700 ... Any one played with both of these ????

Requirements
1. Audible warning of Safety cameras and visual indication of what they are ie speed
2. Uk and European mapping with auto routing and turn by turn verbal directions
3. Route to POI, route to Address, route to ZipCode
4. As I also Geocache therefore the unit has to also allow me to manually add a lat/long and route to it .. ie park here co-ordinates .. Dont intend to use it to geocache (thats what the Vs are for) .. just to get to the parking

I cant work out if the TomTom Go 700 allows me to plan a route to a specific Lat / Long ... also I am puzzled as to why I see so many POI add ons such as petrol stations, Restaurants etc ... is this because the inbuilt POI info is so bad ??

Oldboy · Posted: Thu Oct 27, 2005 7:26 pm Post subject: Re: TomTom Go 700 or

gdavison · Occasional Visitor Joined: Oct 27, 2005 Posts: 45

Cheers Richard ... looks like its a newer Garmin for me then ..

Best G

gdavison · Occasional Visitor Joined: Oct 27, 2005 Posts: 45

Almahadeus · Frequent Visitor Joined: Aug 06, 2005 Posts: 346

gdavison · Occasional Visitor Joined: Oct 27, 2005 Posts: 45

What about the C330 / 340 units ??

I looked at the Online manuals and could not see a way to do it ...

Almahadeus · Frequent Visitor Joined: Aug 06, 2005 Posts: 346

gdavison · Occasional Visitor Joined: Oct 27, 2005 Posts: 45

So the answer was (at First) a TomTomGo 700 .. then after it tried to route me up a one way street in Wokingham the wrong way (which has been one way for > 15 years) and attempted to route me off the M40 on a Police access road ... I sent it back and got the C340 ..

The C340 safey camera function is just what i wanted - warns as you approach, then beeps a lot if you are > than the defined camera speed,... The routing is Excellent and City Nav 8 has my street on it :D .. first digital map series i ahve ever seen my my home street on it (as its an Unadopted street)

DavidHobbs · Posted: Mon Nov 14, 2005 5:02 pm Post subject:

I've been researching these things a lot recently and would have to lean towards the GO 700. It is getting the best reviews of the bunch and overall seems to be more reliable.

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