Okay, this is not real-time mapping, if you have to load the maps into it.
The Telenav system is tied into a cellphone (my Treo) and as you put in an
address, it calls it in and downloads a fresh routing and map, including
routing around construction sites and such, because the info is updated
every day. It's a $10 monthly fee for the mapping, instead of buying a
whole bunch at once.
You can set it for shortest, fastest, or avoiding highways. The voice is
female and unchangeable. We call her Genevieve.
I also have Google maps on my Treo, which is great if you know where you are
to begin with. It also is real-time, and downloads fresh map info as you
ask for it.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Rev. Stewart Marshall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, April 13, 2008 9:21 PM
Subject: Re: [CGUYS] OT: GPS System: Any recommendations?
Help this non tech speak person understand.
All I know is that I put in the place I want to go, and it gives
directions. If I stray from the directions it reroutes itself and gives
me new directions. (Frequent destinations can be saved in the database)
Recently I took a few trips and used it extensively. I preprogrammed a
few locations into it, and used it to know where I was plus where I wanted
to go.
The directions did not fail me once. It even showed me routes I did not
know about.
I live in Southern Alabama, the home of backwoods and rural roads, and it
does very well in routing on these roads. It does not always show roads
that I see, but it has been very good over all.
Just recently I saw one of the mapping companies in town with their Van
(Toyota) with Radar receiver on top and four cameras mounted at each
corner of the roof taking mapping data.
Understand that these maps also tend to be a couple of years old at best.
(No matter who you go to!) So today when I was on my way back home, it
showed me off the road when I was on a new strip of highway.
You can buy other maps for this and download them, not that expensive at
all. (Plus if you must have celebrity voices give you directions you can
do this also.)
Stewart
At 08:09 PM 4/13/2008, you wrote:
Do Tom-Toms have real-time mapping?
Rev. Stewart A. Marshall
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Prince of Peace
Ozark, AL SL 82
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