Tomtom Or What In Florida?

[+Sandstorm]

Can any Geo-Geeks help. I've got to liking the Sat Nav benefits of TomTom on a pocket PC and have all the UK caches overlaid nicely. Apparently there are no TomTom maps for the States - so what do they do over there?

 

Anyone have previous experience of this?

 

Ta ...

[+Pengy&Tigger]

Er... yes there is....

 

Tom Tom USA v2.24. We used it when we were in Tahoe and San Francisco.

 

Worked a treat. Got us from San Francisco to Lake Tahoe, and back again, great little program. And used it for caching too. Works exactly the same as the European version.

 

Pengy & Tigger

[+Cave Troll and Eeyore]

Er... yes there is....

 

Tom Tom USA v2.24. We used it when we were in Tahoe and San Francisco.

 

Works exactly the same as the European version.

 

Pengy & Tigger

What , you mean it takes you along non existant roads

[+Pengy&Tigger]

What , you mean it takes you along non existant roads

Yep, up one way streets, up farm tracks when there is a perfectly good road running parallel with it, and the other side of hills.

 

Ohh Tom Tom, what fun you give us.......

[+Sandstorm]

Well those kind folks at globalpositioningsystems.co.uk said there wasn't anything available - but you appear to be right. Only prob I can see on first investigation is that it doesn't seem that simple to buy just the maps. I'll investigate further.

 

Cheers.

[+Pengy&Tigger]

Only prob I can see on first investigation is that it doesn't seem that simple to buy just the maps.

You need to back up your pocket pc, and TT maps on the flash card to say you Hard drive on the PC. Then take off the UK maps off the flash card, and the program off the pocket PC. Then you install the USA version and the map of the area you need. And when you get back you just recover the backup and flash backups you made earlier.

 

Well that`s what we did anyway.

 

Pengy

[SlytherinAlex]

Personally I've found Mapopolis to be way superior to Tom Tom for use in the States. It is much faster and the mapping is more accurate. Granted it doesn't look as good, but I'd sacrifice good looks for accurate maps anyday.

 

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[+rutson]

... but I'd sacrifice good looks for accurate maps anyday.

You'd need some good looks to sacrifice first

[interpleb]

Personally I've found Mapopolis to be way superior to Tom Tom for use in the States. It is much faster and the mapping is more accurate. Granted it doesn't look as good, but I'd sacrifice good looks for accurate maps anyday.

 

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I use Tomtom in the UK, but I tried out Mapopolis just for the hell of it when I was in the States a while back, and not only did it look ugly, I couldn't understand a word it said.

 

I didn't need it for navigation and so I can't comment on the relative contents of the maps, but as far as software goes, Tomtom is streets ahead - bad pun intended

[SlytherinAlex]

I use Tomtom in the UK, but I tried out Mapopolis just for the hell of it when I was in the States a while back, and not only did it look ugly, I couldn't understand a word it said.

As with Tom Tom you can use alternative voice files. There is an English (as opposed to American) set of .wavs that you can use. I didn't find the voice a problem on Mapopolis though.

 

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Edited March 7, 2005 by SlytherinAlex

[interpleb]

As with Tom Tom you can use alternative voice files. There is an English (as opposed to American) set of .wavs that you can use. I didn't find the voice a problem on Mapopolis though.

 

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I didn't realise it could speak prerecorded samples, mine was doing a very bad Stephen Hawking impression and reading the forthcoming road names incoherently.

 

It amazes me that with all the developments in technology over the last 20 years, speech technology seems to have moved on very slowly.