The Best "Real" GPS Navigation Software

[ktjensen]

Guys, Guys - you are doing it all wrong.

For $50 you can go to EBAY and buy a Garmen I3 or I5 and have all the maps and voice recognition directions. Battery operated or plugin to cigarette lighter.

Everything else is a lame compromize that eats up processor power on your cellphone.

[Nickles]

Originally Posted by ktjensen

Guys, Guys - you are doing it all wrong.

For $50 you can go to EBAY and buy a Garmen I3 or I5 and have all the maps and voice recognition directions. Battery operated or plugin to cigarette lighter.

Everything else is a lame compromize that eats up processor power on your cellphone.

well of course.. but your missing the point. i want to be able to route my ride to Taco Bell while laying on my couch or in the can with the paper..
cmon now !!!! why limit it to just in the car.
this mogul can do AMAZING things...

[marchande]

Originally Posted by ktjensen

Guys, Guys - you are doing it all wrong.

For $50 you can go to EBAY and buy a Garmen I3 or I5 and have all the maps and voice recognition directions. Battery operated or plugin to cigarette lighter.

Everything else is a lame compromize that eats up processor power on your cellphone.

yea.. but it wouldnt be as cool... or as fun... .. but your point is very vallid


as for my prefereances.. garmin has been the best one for me.. iguidance was to flakey.. (things may have changed since I used it) and tomtom being european based didnt have enough goodies for the americans... garmin works out of the box and doesnt require a "primer" and it tells me where the closest restaurants are at... (find the food feature is what my girl loves the most) as for the TTS functions.. never got it to work in iguidance.. and lets face it.. the mogle doesnt have enough memory to run some of this stuff.. (drooling over the diamond and the touch pro due out in sep and november)

so after I switch over to the diamond or touch pro.. Ill stil be able to use the mogle as a standalone gps using garmin...

thats my take on things.

[hippity.hoppity]

Originally Posted by Journeyjeans

Thanks for the run through Nick! I have iGuidance right now, and I have the one click launch set up, and so that's cool and all...but I find it buggy in one way. As soo as the voice comes on, it glitches. Like, the speaker will pop, and then the voice will speak, or it'll happen at the same time. Plus, the menu system is not pretty at all. I LOVE the TTS, which is what I got it for, and the glitch I've gotten used to. It's not so bad, but...

Just replace the stock voice. That's what I did and it fixed the odd glitch when the voice would begin speaking.

I'd never use a GPS app without TTS. Total waste.

[Nickles]

Originally Posted by hippity.hoppity

Just replace the stock voice. That's what I did and it fixed the odd glitch when the voice would begin speaking.

I'd never use a GPS app without TTS. Total waste.

Hmmm. interesting idea.
i came up with this link HERE , but the URL for the voice file has since been removed......
what 'other' voice are you using ??? i would like to give it a try, but not sure what voice file would be compatible with iGuidance, or what the format would be ?

[hippity.hoppity]

Originally Posted by Nickles

Hmmm. interesting idea.
i came up with this link HERE , but the URL for the voice file has since been removed......
what 'other' voice are you using ??? i would like to give it a try, but not sure what voice file would be compatible with iGuidance, or what the format would be ?

I found it on another site.

[Nickles]

Originally Posted by hippity.hoppity

I found it on another site.

where are you putting the .wav files ? the iNav folder has a \scansoft folder, with a couple of 'RealSpeak' folder underneath it.. i think there is more to it than just wav files ? there weren't any existing wav files in my iNav folder.
just a bunch of speech engines and stuff.

[roninr6]

The Mogul does not have enough memory to run iG08 with TTS voices. My rom Boots with 29MB free RAM, and iGO8 with with TTS will give me an out of memory error within 5 turns every time, and for those 5 turns its very slow at refreshing the map. I have yet to see a report of someone using iGO8 with a device with 64MB and have the TTS work, you need 128MB of RAM.

I do however use iGO8 and its been great for me, I like it better than iGO2006 that i had been using/ 2006 had no TTS so really I dont miss not having it in iGO8.

I am still on the hunt for some building files for iGO8, I have found a few but not many, and I have not found any 3dc files for North America, only 3dl.

I have also tried garmin XT, TomTom, and Sygic. Garmin has the nest routing by far, with Sygic a close second, TomTom and Igo use teleatlas maps which arent as good as navtec. I really didnt like the map view in Garmin, I like the more 3d angle of the the others. I actually like sygic quite a bit, but for some reason I always come back to iGO.

The only downside to IGO is that they dont sell a retail version with North American Maps, you have to source the maps from somewhere else. OnCourse Navigator is a rebadged version of IGO for morth america, and the OCN maps will work, but there wont be a OCN 8 until later this year from what Ive read. OCN 6 is the same a iGo2006 and its $89.99

[Lsme420]

The best "REAL" GPS? I want to know what the best "FAKE" GPS is?

[Richard Ward]

Originally Posted by Lsme420

The best "REAL" GPS? I want to know what the best "FAKE" GPS is?

A "fake" GPS is one that doesn't do what I want, when I want. O_o

I'm really just looking for a "Follow the arrow" rotating-map type thing, whereas Google Maps requires you to constantly rotate the phone because the maps are fixed. I want "up" to always be "straight ahead," in a sense.

TomTom seems pretty nifty but it seems to take like a good minute to acquire satellites even with QuickGPS.