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Re: SatNav
Been following this with interest. Been using Navman with a Compaq PDA. It certainly saves a lot of time and like most comments, about 99{e5d1b7155a01ef1f3b9c9968eaba33524ee81600d00d4be2b4d93ac2e58cec2d} accurate.
Saves struggling with a map etc.
Recommend it each time. It unclips from the windscreen mount so can easily be concealed in the car or taken with you.
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andy_art_trigg wrote:Or – for about £100 more, the best on the market is the Tom tom Go. It’s pretty awesome.
http://www.tomtom.com/products/product. … Language=1
To be honest, it’s light years ahead of the Blaupunkt one.
A search on Google quicky finds them at £412 (inc VAT) and free delivery.
The flash demo is good (although the voice is rubbish) you can select various voices and I have a nice relaxing bloke called Tom.) You can also download all the speed, and traffic light camera locations and set it to warn you when 250 yards from one.
I have a Tom Tom on a Dell and quite frankly it,s a pain in the buttocks. It does not utilize Post Codes and is very temperamental.
My Son has a new Freelander with it built in and it is much more “user friendly”
Shane
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hi all
i just purchaced a typhoon pocket pc with sat nav built in, fantastic piece of kit 😀 99{e5d1b7155a01ef1f3b9c9968eaba33524ee81600d00d4be2b4d93ac2e58cec2d} reliable with the benifit of small size and a pc to boot.Bob
Re: SatNav
shane wrote:I have a Tom Tom on a Dell and quite frankly it,s a pain in the buttocks. It does not utilize Post Codes and is very temperamental.
Shane
The Tom Tom Go does use post codes. You put the post code in under “City..” Although it only finds the post code area and doesn’t use the last 2 letters which identify the street.
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Not got a Sat Nav system as yet (maybe Santa will bring me one 😯 ) but a friend of mine bought one recently (Tom Tom unit I believe…them Red Injuns are everywhere 😆 ) Halfords fitted it for him and he proudly tested it for the first time on his way home. Apparently he set in his ‘destination postcode’ and requested the ‘shortest route’……
….his route home under instruction from this femail voice was going well and true until the ‘voice’ told him to turn ‘next right’ down an unmade lane (which runs parallel with the main road he should be on) at the end of the lane was a deep ford only suitable for ‘Duck Tours’ amphibious vehicles and blokes that carry inflatable dingys in the boot 🙁
Needless to say he ignored her advice and took the main road, only to be ‘re-routed’ in error by the voice into a cul de sac. His frustration got the better of him and he switched it off. I think he is going back to Halfords next week to have her surgically removed from the dashboard :rotfl:
Martin
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I have a factory fit Mercedes unit in my van, haven’t a clue who makes it. What I do know is that it does not preclude a little common sense being used when using it. The “shortest route” option is fantastic on mine…quickly recalculating when I do not take the obvious track across a field. I don’t bother with postcodes, just put in the number and street.
When added to my local knowledge of my area its a powerful tool….Although not in my “toolbox”
If it could receive my work and talk to my server, print out my jobs and tell me how to fix em….well, I’d wash the van to make it look the part too.
KevinRe: SatNav
andy_art_trigg wrote:The Tom Tom Go does use post codes. You put the post code in under “City..” Although it only finds the post code area and doesn’t use the last 2 letters which identify the street.
I just caught that one, is that not a bit of a pointless exercise Andy? I mean the whole point of satnav is to get you to your destination, not somewhere in a 2-50 mile radius dependent on the population density. Seems a bit silly to me.
As a general rule and, I do mean this as a general rule, the integrated head units tend to be far better than standalone products which is very strange, it’s usually the other way around. I think it’s down to car manufacturers using them after all, if you bought a swanky new Mercedes or Beemer and the satnav with their name on it sent you off the wrong way down a one-way street you’re not likely to be very impressed.
K.
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kheath wrote: I don’t bother with postcodes, just put in the number and street.
If it’s Mercedes, then it’s Blaupunkt surely I would have thought 🙂
However, I didn’t realise that system you had Kevin would work on other information keyed in rather than Postcodes??
Are you saying you can key in for example “Dunroamin, High Street, Crapsville” and it will guide you there???
Martin
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The one i have works on street names and not postcodes, it does let you enter codes but not down to the last 2 digits, enter town, street name and house number and of you go, parks the van outside of the house, if no number is entered parks in the middle of the street:D,99{e5d1b7155a01ef1f3b9c9968eaba33524ee81600d00d4be2b4d93ac2e58cec2d} happy with it great on these dark nights.
Bob.
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kwatt wrote:
andy_art_trigg wrote:
.. the whole point of satnav is to get you to your destination, not somewhere in a 2-50 mile radius dependent on the population density. Seems a bit silly to me.K.
You use the post code AND the street name & number. e.g. You can put “Sheffield” “Name_of_street” + “house number” OR “S6 5” “Name_of_street” + “house number”
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yes martin…as long as the dunroamin is on the digi map it will accept it.
sometimes I get a call to 109 when the digi map only see 107…easy go to 107 and carry on going for 30 yds.(yds is yards ..just less than a metre and roughly the same as 3 feet for all you sprogs with hair((lucky barstewards))
kevinRe: SatNav
shane wrote:I have a Tom Tom on a Dell and quite frankly it,s a pain in the buttocks. It does not utilize Post Codes and is very temperamental.
ShaneI have just put Tom Tom 3 into a new Ipaq and if you go to http://www.digitools.co.uk/home.php you can download the Uk postcode database add on for Tom Tom 3. Just tried it and when you punch in the full post code it starts Tom Tom and plans the route for you down to street level.
You can also download a database of Uk static speed cameras, mobile cameras and red light cameras from http://pocketgpsworld.com/uksafetycameras.php which would be usefull for all of you with 9 points on the licence
John
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My dear sweet innocent daughter is currently driving one of her companies ‘pool’ cars. As she travels all over London and the south east at the moment, Sat Nav was a must for her. She ended up with a Dagenham dustbin armed with a Tom Tom Sat Nav bolted to the dash.
Anyway, as I don’t need sat nav to tell me where I’m going, she did at least volunteer to demostrate the system to this old sceptic…. :rolls:
I’m always up for a laugh, and risking life and limb, she took me for a spin to test the effectiveness and efficiency of the unit. With the touch screen I put in what I thought was a tricky test for a crappy looking 5 inch piece of silver plastic. A short but tricky route just to prove it was a load of junk. 😈
I insisted in order to test it to the full, that we occasionally ignore the instruction and turn right instead of left…….The voice from the box I instantly recognised as Ozzy Osborne…. 😯
He said….. “You’ve taken the wrong f****** turn!………. Turn around…..Now turn f****** right!!!!!!!!”
Laugh………I’ve got to get me one of those Ozzy Osborne’s it was hilarious….!!!! 😀
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