Best GPS Apps

[mindfrost82]

Originally Posted by kbl

I have to say... I didn't know there was an update for my GarminXT PPC client. I updated to the latest version and the map updating is faster (still not as fast as TomTom) but is now acceptable. Search the forums for a link.

So now I'm using Garmin again... I pray for TTS. That would be sweet!

I'm using the .50 version, which I think is the latest.

[mindfrost82]

Originally Posted by andyandmarlys

Thanks for the GPSGate tip... I'll give that a try...

Regarding text to voice... So far as I can tell, Iguidance is the only one that announces street names... but are there any other software choices out there that are not data intensive that have plans to add the text to voice? ( I can't imagine other companies not implementing it soon, but I don't have any knowledge of anyone announcing an update...)... ie.. would tomtom v7 or the next garmin update include text to voice?

CoPilot by ALK told me they were going to release an update to add TTS, other than that I haven't heard anything else.

[kaikara]

Does anyone know of a GPS application that is more geared towards outdoors type stuff then driving. I would like to use my phone when I am riding my mountain bike. I knoe some of the dedicated GPS units allow you to capture the route you did along with elevation and speed changes giving you graphs that you can overlay on google maps for example. Is there anything like this for WM?

[kbl]

Originally Posted by kaikara

Does anyone know of a GPS application that is more geared towards outdoors type stuff then driving. I would like to use my phone when I am riding my mountain bike. I knoe some of the dedicated GPS units allow you to capture the route you did along with elevation and speed changes giving you graphs that you can overlay on google maps for example. Is there anything like this for WM?

I'd love to do this as well... but when I tried with a real GPS i had nothing but problems with keeping satellites when in the woods.

[soinkster]

nav4all psst lol thats a joke right

[houseman]

Originally Posted by VW

Heh thats a good question. I just had a friend who called me who just left for vacation. He said he used VZNavigator all the way to the beach, but lost signal and got lost for a bit...

having said that, i dont trust tomtom's routing. I think iGuidance or Garmin XT is better

Tom tom works great for me. what I was saying is that when you use telnav and loose signal you lose navigation

[dumb4ever]

interesting that nobody mention about iGO8 yet !! i think it's one nice GPS program.
Up to date everything and has TTS.

[andyandmarlys]

Originally Posted by dumb4ever

interesting that nobody mention about iGO8 yet !! i think it's one nice GPS program.
Up to date everything and has TTS.

This software looks awesome... but does it run smooth on windows mobile... and does it have US maps... I am looking at their site and see only Europe

[Vip3rV333]

Originally Posted by andyandmarlys

This software looks awesome... but does it run smooth on windows mobile... and does it have US maps... I am looking at their site and see only Europe

Smooth? You bet! It seems like there is a video driver installed when you run this app. Your position is smoothly updated on the road and not constantly "jerking" up when your driving like in TomTom. I quit in TomTom so long ago...

It does have all US maps...

PS. Check your message box on were to get iGo8 and US and Euro maps since I cant say here...

[Fierofiend]

I use iGO 8. I think its great. The problem with it is that I'm running a rom that I cooked based on the new 'leaked' rom and the time always resets to Prague when I exit iGO. I have to set the time back to my zone every single time I use the program..