[darnell]

Hi SendIt and welcome to the site.

As far as CoPilot 8 maps go, I can say from my own personal experience, that I find the maps to be as up to date as I've found so far. I know they're clearly more current than Garmin Mobile XT maps. I can only speak for my own use, but I think they are keeping the maps well updated.

Regarding CoPilot 8 routing, I feel claims of being taken "hours and hours" out of the way to be very incorrect. Just based on my own use. I've driven drives that take hours with it and it always gave me a decent route, which was similar or the same as we knew to be best. I will say, no navigation app I've ever used beats Garmin's routing, but when the maps are not current even the best routing is not enough.

I think routing is a sightly subjective view, so I didn't include it in my first post. (Sometimes views on a best route differ.) But while I don't feel anything beats Garmin, I've found any time CoPilot has deviated from what might be optimal, the difference was small. Similar to small routing differences I've seen in Telenav.

From what I've read, CoPilot map updates are free so long as you're using the current version. I really don't know what might be done once something such as a "CoPilot 9" is released. I've only read that map update are free so long as CoPilot 8 is current, nothing more.

I can't speak for what CoPilot might have been in the past, but its latest version is working well for me today.