Discussion
As to the quality of the maps, A colleague has a tom-tom (don't know which one). He brought it with him on our last trip to Nijmegen. We managed Schiphol->Hotel(Nijmegen)->Philips Office->Schiphol and it only got confused once (because the final address we'd been given was for the building nextdoor to the hotel).
I was pretty impressed as it allowed the rest of us to catch up on our sleep during the journey back to Schiphol
I'm going to borrow it for a trip to the far north-west of Scotland later this year.
Sheepy
I was pretty impressed as it allowed the rest of us to catch up on our sleep during the journey back to Schiphol
I'm going to borrow it for a trip to the far north-west of Scotland later this year. Sheepy
Just noticed this forum.
We just got a Mitac Mio169 with TTN5 a few weeks ago. Quite handy, all in one PDA with built in GPS.
We tested it out on a few roads we knew then went to Europe with it.
What can I say but fantastic. It managed to find everywhere we asked for through France/Germany/Austria/Italy/Czech Republic and back again adding Holland and Belgium. It doesn't have maps for Slovenia and Croatia which is a shame but just meant I had to resort to old fashioned methods again.
It didn't lock up on us at all through the whole trip and even though we took the wrong turn now and again it just recalculated and got us on the right road again.
It did get a little confused once when it thought we were going the opposite direction but recalculating the route sorted that.
It doesn't allow you to link maps if you cross from say France to Germany, you need to navigate to the border and then change maps but if you load the major roads of europe on one of the map sets then the detail is pretty good anyway and lets you cross countries without changing.
Happy so far even though I always thought I would be happy with the old school method.
Andy
We just got a Mitac Mio169 with TTN5 a few weeks ago. Quite handy, all in one PDA with built in GPS.
We tested it out on a few roads we knew then went to Europe with it.
What can I say but fantastic. It managed to find everywhere we asked for through France/Germany/Austria/Italy/Czech Republic and back again adding Holland and Belgium. It doesn't have maps for Slovenia and Croatia which is a shame but just meant I had to resort to old fashioned methods again.
It didn't lock up on us at all through the whole trip and even though we took the wrong turn now and again it just recalculated and got us on the right road again.
It did get a little confused once when it thought we were going the opposite direction but recalculating the route sorted that.
It doesn't allow you to link maps if you cross from say France to Germany, you need to navigate to the border and then change maps but if you load the major roads of europe on one of the map sets then the detail is pretty good anyway and lets you cross countries without changing.
Happy so far even though I always thought I would be happy with the old school method.
Andy
the game has moved on
if buying now then if you dont get a unit with built in traffic congestion warning and also text-to -speech (i.e. voice announcements of road names, POI's should you so desire) then you are being left behind.
i.e. garmin c340 and 2720
they will both of course do speed cameras with audible warnings as well and all eth usual multitude of garmin options
failing that, if you want a secondhand 2610 give me a shout as im selling mine to get a 2720
if buying now then if you dont get a unit with built in traffic congestion warning and also text-to -speech (i.e. voice announcements of road names, POI's should you so desire) then you are being left behind.
i.e. garmin c340 and 2720
they will both of course do speed cameras with audible warnings as well and all eth usual multitude of garmin options
failing that, if you want a secondhand 2610 give me a shout as im selling mine to get a 2720
Gassing Station | In-Car Electronics | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff