Google app hammers tom tom and garmin

[jimboalee]

If you find one - please let me know

It's a long labourious ballsaching procedure.

On mapsource, get the mapping up on the screen ( it works with City Nav too ).
On Streetmap.co.uk, get the OS 50,000 maps up on the screen in a seperate window or on a seperate computer.

On Streetmap, search for the hills with a chevron.
When you find one, set an 'Avoid' on the Garmin map with the facitity on Mapsource.

When you are satisfied you have avoided all the chevron hills you will ever go near, download the maps to the Garmin handset.


Then, when you are out and about and ask for a route, the mapping will have 'Avoids' on the hills and plot a route around them.

At the moment, I have 'Avoids' on only half a dozen TWO chevron hills, and they are over forty miles from home.

 

[rh100]

Darned right I will. (Sitting here with my local OS Explorer open on the desk next to me at the moment, though, so not holding my breath. )


Hmmm... I kinda see and agree but didn't it come the other way round? In other words, weren't stand-alone GPS devices out before it appeared on a phone?

I've gone the other way, though. I bought the TomTom and got so frustrated with it's inability to connect to anything else (just connecting it to a computer would meant that the SD card wiped itself, three times, TomTom support is shite) that I have now moved to GPS on the phone. I now know that the GPS unit and phone will connect, as will any bluetooth headset or bluetooth car kit.

The TomTom unit I have won't connect to anything other than a limited list of 5-year old phones and TomTom's own headset, because they have strangled the bluetooth they use.

I would never recommend, let alone buy, another TomTom product, even if it did come with an ability to map the flattest route.

I guess so - from my own experience though - I bought my first sat nav as a kit to go with my old Palm Tungsten E several years ago, using Michelin software, I don't recall any standalone being within price range, this kit alone was the best part of £200 IIRC. I guess marketing/lower cost and simplicity made the stand alone unit more popular in recent years.

Is the Tomtom unit you mention just the bluetooth GPS receiver then? If so, you can get a cheap generic receiver from ebay for about £15 if you have use for one, as there is not much call for them anymore. Suits me fine though to go with my Ipaq.

 

[Norm]

Is the Tomtom unit you mention just the bluetooth GPS receiver then? If so, you can get a cheap generic receiver from ebay for about £15 if you have use for one, as there is not much call for them anymore. Suits me fine though to go with my Ipaq.

No, it's the TomTom Rider, a waterproof unit designed for (motor-)bikes.

The wife uses it now, when it does get used, as it is very simple to operate and routes pretty well but we don't bother with anything more than basic A to B and even then we'll often verify it against a map.

My phones both have built-in GPS, that's the way forward, IMO.

 

[Woz!]

If anyone's got one of the Nokia phones with a GPS inside (I have the N95) then Nokia Sports Tracker is well worth a look. Maps your route then uploads it to a site complete with elevation, top speed etc.
Very handy. And can be attached to the bars for a real-time display of speed and location.
Saps the battery mind you.


http://sportstracker.nokia.com/nts/main/index.do