Best GPS software to use with our new feature?

[ffyter]

Iguidance is decent. The maps are a more up to date in my area(both current up to date maps) on iguidance vs tomtom. Iguidance has text to voice which is nice and actually says the street names. It is hard to read the upcomming street names on the maps and the streets are skinny. I like tomtom much better because of the ease of use with the big buttons and the qwerty keyboard to type on. The display is also much better on tomtom compared to iguidance.

[dishe]

MAPOPOLIS!

I haven't tried it with the new rom yet (going to flash soon), but I've been using this on my Pocket PC with my Bluetooth GPS puck on my dashboard for the last 4 years, and I can honestly say its the most under-rated peice of software out there.

Its nothing to look at, its actually rather boring graphically (no fancy 3D views or anything here), however what it DOES do, it does EXTREMELY WELL.

That is, it gives clear, concise, turn by turn spoken directions with a text-to-speech function to read you the street names (something this did long before standalone GPS units offered it). Its got dynamic zoom stuff so you can see the details of the upcoming turn when you need it, and then go back to the big picture when you're on the highway, and after trying other applications (tom tom, gmaps, etc), I found that no other application was as good at in-car navigation.

Its not the best as far as user-interface (finding a location to route takes some getting used to), and visually some of the others look cooler, but I find that once you've got your location and destination, its one of the best at making sure you stay on the route and get there.

EDIT: I forgot to mention that Mapopolis stopped selling their software this past year. However, the application (which is free) is still available for download if you go straight to their download page (the main page at mapopolis.com no longer has links to the software). A google search will give you this:
http://www.mapopolis.com/downloadppc...44.52999078068

The maps (which are the parts that cost money) are still available to download if you have an account with them from before they stopped selling them, however demo maps are still available for free to the public (link can be found on the page listed above), and work for 7 days. After that, unfortunately, the only option is to hack them to work since they are no longer selling the full version (very easy to crack- maps have a single bit to determine demo status. If you change that bit to 0 in a hex editor, the map becomes non-demo/full version. Look it up for further instructions).

I actually find it very sad that they are no longer selling the software, since I haven't found any other good ones that speak street names. Let me know if I'm overlooking one, please!

[lvlal2co]

Im Getting a message for weak GPS Signal on my HTC Sprint Touch, it says to change local settings on GPS??? I've tried everything but still in the clouds someone help me please!!!!!

[Darkness231]

Here is just the sprint navigator pulled from the post above

[KingGanon]

Originally Posted by TalynOne

You can get the Sprint Navigation CAB (including the other customization files) from here:

http://rapidshare.com/files/86663464/SprintEXTRom.rar

ur a life saver, i've been looking for the Sprint Nav cab all day, and no one has posted it until you did, thank you so much

[lvlal2co]

Originally Posted by KingGanon

ur a life saver, i've been looking for the Sprint Nav cab all day, and no one has posted it until you did, thank you so much

Hey did you luckily install that I have the Sprint touch and I have no luck getting mine to work????

[lvlal2co]

Originally Posted by TalynOne

You can get the Sprint Navigation CAB (including the other customization files) from here:

http://rapidshare.com/files/86663464/SprintEXTRom.rar

I dont mean to repost but I was wondering if maybe I can get a little help w/ the Sprint Nav App. I added it to my Sprint HTC Touch and now everytime I try to run Nav it says "GPS signal too weak move to open area or change local settings - ON" Tried everything but still can't get it to work Can you please help??? hit me up on AIM kn0wledge4uruse....... thanx.....

[matt314159]

I need to find out if sprint navigation is included in my SERO plan or not. I was supposed to get free powervision, but I don't know if the telenav stuff is included or if i'll be locked down to a free trial.

The software looks great but NO WAY am I going to pay $9.99/month for it when I can just pirate tomtom....did I just say that out loud?

[The Specialist]

Originally Posted by matt314159

I need to find out if sprint navigation is included in my SERO plan or not. I was supposed to get free powervision, but I don't know if the telenav stuff is included or if i'll be locked down to a free trial.

The software looks great but NO WAY am I going to pay $9.99/month for it when I can just pirate tomtom....did I just say that out loud?

yeah, after paying 600 for my phone, and going through all this bs with serious problems, i'm not paying 10 bucks a month just for that.

[VulnoX]

Originally Posted by The Specialist

yeah, after paying 600 for my phone, and going through all this bs with serious problems, i'm not paying 10 bucks a month just for that.

If you have an Unlimited Sprint Vision Pack (which all SERO plans have), my understanding is that you get navigation at no extra cost. I have seen this question asked by SERO users with phones that already have Nav (Non-PDA phone).

So don't worry about it until they say you have to pay in the program, and if that happens call Sprint because its probably just a mistake.