Anyone using iGO 8 - Page 10

Shrink · #1 (**permalink**) 05-21-2008, 08:54 PM

I was in the same position as you and after doing some research in other online forums learned that version 8 will not use version 7 maps. I can see the point for European maps as version 8 maps have been released but none for North America. I have yet to find a hack to bypass this. For me, however, the Garmin maps are more accurate than the version 7 iGo maps so I am not missing much.

Wildwillis · #2 (**permalink**) 05-21-2008, 11:49 PM

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Originally Posted by Shrink

I was in the same position as you and after doing some research in other online forums learned that version 8 will not use version 7 maps. I can see the point for European maps as version 8 maps have been released but none for North America. I have yet to find a hack to bypass this. For me, however, the Garmin maps are more accurate than the version 7 iGo maps so I am not missing much.

Thanks for the info. I saw something about that too, but then I've seen a lot of people talking about using US maps (it seems). Perhaps they've all been using the V8 beta the expired at the beginning of May (or something like that).

SprintTough8 - are you getting Michigan V7 maps to load on V8 Final or on the beta version?

**bedoig** · #3 (**permalink**) 05-22-2008, 10:30 AM

To my knowledge, all the US maps currently available are from the v8 beta. I have no idea if the v7 maps work, but I do know that the v8 beta maps work just fine (and are very accurate for my region).

I do have a question though. What exactly is the purpose of the Phoneme files?

Wildwillis · #4 (**permalink**) 05-23-2008, 10:36 AM

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Originally Posted by bedoig

To my knowledge, all the US maps currently available are from the v8 beta. I have no idea if the v7 maps work, but I do know that the v8 beta maps work just fine (and are very accurate for my region).

I do have a question though. What exactly is the purpose of the Phoneme files?

Are you using those V8 beta maps on iGO8 beta or final?

jdw7985 · #5 (**permalink**) 05-22-2008, 05:19 PM

one thing i like on garmin is most poi's are already installed wit my maps, i tried the site listed for poi's and didnt like havin to do one by one for everything, thats if i can even get them to load

Shrink · #6 (**permalink**) 05-22-2008, 05:35 PM

I sure would like to know where to get ahold of iGo 8 beta <g>.

rnobles · #7 (**permalink**) 05-22-2008, 10:27 PM

Does this run faster than TomTom 6? I really like TomTom except for:

-Speed of menus and routing
-No text-to-speech of street names

Does iGO 8 do either or both of these better. If so I really would like to get my hands on the iGO8 beta with US maps.