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Originally Posted by keystone
 jnuts, such is piracy. Why do some have no qualms upon blurting out the stupendously obvious? Ain't this to be a respectable community forum that desires to retain a moral high ground?
There are many decent freeware and paid apps (iGo, Tomtom, Garmin, CoPilot, etc) out there.
Personally I stick with Garmin with its topo and city navigator maps for on pavement and back county roads in North America while using Tomtom in Europe. Igo8 does offer wonderful customisations but it is slow to load up and requires a disproportionate amount of RAM to run. How much eye-candy does one require for simple route finding?
Except for quick look-ups with Google Maps or Bing, I shun the over-the-air mapping programs due to connectivity issues when travelling in and in between cities. |
Garmin will not upgrade any of their mobile XT software, and from what I have read TomTom has stopped selling their 7 to the US market, some are speculating that this is because of some agreement with Apple and the iPhone app, I would like to try CoPilot, I have emaild them but have not herd back from them on a trial period, I would realy like to try it, I have read that their maps are not as up to date as Navteq maps, I would hate to spend the money only to find out I have exactly what I have with Garmin, the problem with Garmin and their outdated maps is that there have been a lot of hiway changes here in the last few years and none of those are in there, another problem with not being able to try first is, I tried Destinator, it could not find my GPS, this is the only program so far that can't find it, then I tried ZorroGPS, I realy like that program, most up to date maps that I have found, problem is once I use it to navigate it will not load again, I have to completly uninstall it, and then reinstall it to get it to work again, they are very responcive with their customer service, they tell me this is the first they have herd of this happening, anyway I would hate to buy any program and find out this was the case.
So I guess I will keep looking.
Thanks
Terry