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Cathryn



Joined: 16 Jul 2005
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PostPosted: Fri Jul 03, 15 12:38 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

dpack wrote:

my hand held garmin will locate me to within a metre anywhere on the planet


How very useful Inspector Gadget.

Thank you. The Here Drive sounds excellent but I don't have a windows 8 phone. I do have a quite a smart phone though and I'll look up the what you suggest Pilsbury. I'd forgotten about that. I'm sure it will do although I would rather like something to shout at me if I go off piste when trying to leave Cardiff. I can get to the city centre every time but I rarely leave on the same route twice.

Behemoth



Joined: 01 Dec 2004
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Location: Leeds
PostPosted: Fri Jul 03, 15 12:50 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

dpack wrote:
ps my hand held is rather more sophisticated than in car gps units


Oh dear, I fear another Menwith Hill intercept.

vegplot



Joined: 19 Apr 2007
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Location: Bethesda, Gwynedd
PostPosted: Fri Jul 03, 15 12:58 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Cathryn wrote:
dpack wrote:

my hand held garmin will locate me to within a metre anywhere on the planet


How very useful Inspector Gadget.

Thank you. The Here Drive sounds excellent but I don't have a windows 8 phone. I do have a quite a smart phone though and I'll look up the what you suggest Pilsbury. I'd forgotten about that. I'm sure it will do although I would rather like something to shout at me if I go off piste when trying to leave Cardiff. I can get to the city centre every time but I rarely leave on the same route twice.


What operating system and version on your SmartPhone?

Pilsbury



Joined: 13 Dec 2004
Posts: 5645
Location: East london/Essex
PostPosted: Fri Jul 03, 15 1:23 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Cathryn wrote:
dpack wrote:

my hand held garmin will locate me to within a metre anywhere on the planet


How very useful Inspector Gadget.

Thank you. The Here Drive sounds excellent but I don't have a windows 8 phone. I do have a quite a smart phone though and I'll look up the what you suggest Pilsbury. I'd forgotten about that. I'm sure it will do although I would rather like something to shout at me if I go off piste when trying to leave Cardiff. I can get to the city centre every time but I rarely leave on the same route twice.

Navigate does use voice software to tell you which way to go and you can also pick your mode of transport, car, public, bike or walking.
To be honest it has compleatly replaced my sat nav in the car and I use it a lot.

cir3ngirl



Joined: 13 Aug 2006
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Location: Cirencester
PostPosted: Fri Jul 03, 15 6:52 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Dpack which Garmin do you have I'm looking to upgrade mine, I doing geocaching. I bought a Magellan but didn't like it

Cathryn



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PostPosted: Fri Jul 03, 15 10:09 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

vegplot wrote:
Cathryn wrote:
dpack wrote:

my hand held garmin will locate me to within a metre anywhere on the planet


How very useful Inspector Gadget.

Thank you. The Here Drive sounds excellent but I don't have a windows 8 phone. I do have a quite a smart phone though and I'll look up the what you suggest Pilsbury. I'd forgotten about that. I'm sure it will do although I would rather like something to shout at me if I go off piste when trying to leave Cardiff. I can get to the city centre every time but I rarely leave on the same route twice.


What operating system and version on your SmartPhone?


Ummm, Android 14.5 any minute now if it can manage to update.

vegplot



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PostPosted: Sat Jul 04, 15 9:13 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

https://blogs.which.co.uk/technology/app-review/top-five-android-sat-nav-apps/

dpack



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PostPosted: Sat Jul 04, 15 3:07 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

if it had a "find me" function i could tell you which one it is

dpack



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PostPosted: Sat Jul 04, 15 3:20 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

gpsmap 60 cx by garmin

tis a few years old ,i bought it off brownbear as he wanted a less complex one.

it works very well(unless under trees,in a gully etc etc )

i suspect it needs an external kit aerial for in car use as it is a bit iffy in a train but on foot or bike tis excellent.

dpack



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PostPosted: Mon Jul 06, 15 3:26 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

the russians have just announced their new gps killer weapon so a map is still a good investment

Shane



Joined: 31 Oct 2005
Posts: 3467
Location: Doha. Is hot.
PostPosted: Tue Jul 07, 15 3:20 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

I use Waze on the iPhone and it's brilliant - also available on Android, according to Google. It uses an open source map and is by far the most up to date for this area (Google is hopelessly out of date and the latest map in the Garmin satnav I use in the desert is even worse). Waze also gets feedback on traffic flow from every online user and uses it to keep the map of congestion up-to-date, and also reroutes you if traffic gets too slow on your route.

vegplot



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PostPosted: Tue Jul 07, 15 5:28 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

It's available for Windows Phone as well. I'll give it a go.

vegplot



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PostPosted: Tue Jul 07, 15 5:41 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Not used Waze in anger yet but first impressions are really very good. Nice and simple and plenty of feedback options to report traffic and mapping errors.

Shane



Joined: 31 Oct 2005
Posts: 3467
Location: Doha. Is hot.
PostPosted: Wed Jul 08, 15 3:44 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

One good thing I like about Waze is that if you arrive in a new country, jump on the airport's wifi and plug in your destination, it will download the map between the airport and where you're going and all the roads for a mile or two on each side of the route.

It also lets me send an ETA to other Waze users, which is handy if I'm on my way to see someone and get stuck in Doha's highly-variable traffic.

I bought (at significant expense) the map for Asia for my Garmin satnav and it doesn't even have decent coverage of places like Bangkok or KL. Waze is free and stomps all over the Garmin maps.

Google tried to buy Waze a few months ago, which shows you how worried they are about it.

vegplot



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Location: Bethesda, Gwynedd
PostPosted: Wed Jul 08, 15 10:25 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Shane wrote:

It also lets me send an ETA to other Waze users, which is handy if I'm on my way to see someone and get stuck in Doha's highly-variable traffic.


That's the only fly in the ointment. So far I've found this feature to be unreliable. Send the link to the map via email works fine but the end user get's a "route not valid" type of error. Other than that it's great.

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