[IT_Architect]

Can someone test 2 routes for me in Garmin?: I'm looking for NAV for my TP2 so I can navigate and talk. I've narrowed it down to Garmin XT and the 2011 maps, and Navigon with the lane help. What I would like is if I could send someone a two sets of beginning and end points and see what Garmin comes back with for a route.

A Vendor showing WM Commitment: Posts on this thread highlight the lack of vendor commitment to WM. I was thinking at first I had it narrowed down to Garmin and IGO. However, that has changed. After my research of people's posts across a lot of forums, IGO is looking pretty weak on their commitment to WM while Navigon, one that I didn't expect to consider, has good maps, both city and country, and current WM support. Navigon is the current darling of WPhone 7, and supports the older phones. Unlike Garmin, you need to pay for your map updates. They are starting a new program now where you can just buy a map update when you want to. The only complaint I've heard so far is, while it supports portrait and landscape, some people are having problems with it switching. Their latest maps as Q4 of 2009, which is surprising since they own NAVTEQ and Garmin leases data from them, and Garmin has 2011 maps, even for Garmin XT, which they no longer sell. But buying the company and assimilating it are two different matters, and perhaps Navigon has to pay like everyone else.

Notes about on-line maps that I've used:
*None of these are a solution for me because they don't let you take calls and navigate nor do they work when you are lose signal.
- Sprint NAV is free with my service, but it will route me through the middle of a woods and have me go the wrong way down an expressway ramp that they changed years ago. That's inexcusable for an on-line service. Another time I asked for the expressway and unnecessarily ran me through the middle of town, bypassing closer on-ramps. If it works that way on simple trips in areas that I do know, there is no way that I'm going to trust it for areas that I don't know.
- Google Maps for the desktop beats anything else out there because you can drag routes. However, you can't do that for the mobile version, leaving it in a position where it has nothing noteworthy to add other than the Google name.
- Bing surprised me. TTS just got out of beta. I loaded it with the "whatever" attitude. However after I tried it, it got me to uninstall Google Maps. I couldn't find ANYTHING Bing doesn't do better than Google maps. It's faster, finds attractions better, navigates to them easier, you name it.