Comments on: In-car GPS units

By: John

John — Tue, 22 Aug 2006 22:05:38 +0000

I have a Garmin GPS-V in the Car. It works quite well as long at the mapping is up to date, though it is quite an old unit now. I assume you know that if you are bringing a laptop, you could, like Bernie says, use google maps, and I have a Serial GPS, thats sitting in the drawer here

By: Mark

Mark — Tue, 22 Aug 2006 18:35:52 +0000

They don’t have maps for Ireland, take a long time to reacquire a signal after losing it forcing me to reboot units after leaving tunnels, and their points of interest db is usually out of date.

Three strikes against Tom Tom then.

Oh, and if you’ve a data plan with your Nokia you might be able to just buy a map card and a bluetooth GPS unit. Just like everything else there’s still little to no support for my S60 3rd edition phone yet.

By: liam

liam — Tue, 22 Aug 2006 18:08:20 +0000

I actually rented a Garmin set from http://www.mysatnav.ie earlier this year for a week in France. It worked really really well. They don’t seem to rent units anymore, but check them out for offers. (no, I don’t have a relationship with them)

By: Bernie Goldbach

Bernie Goldbach — Tue, 22 Aug 2006 18:04:02 +0000

Garmin and Google Maps cached on my Sony Clie got me around the desert southwest of the States. No paper maps were unfolded, even while running through the LA basin. The driver made two wrong turns in 3940 miles of travel.

By: Pat Phelan

Pat Phelan — Tue, 22 Aug 2006 17:36:43 +0000

I used a Hertz rental car equipped with their Neverlost system last year on a 10 road-trip in the USA.

http://www.neverlost.com/

Worked perfect and an idiot proof interface.
Its now available in Europe

http://www.m-travel.com/news/2005/11/hertz_to_introd.html

Used Tomtom in the UK a few weeks ago and it worked fine but not as easily as the neverlost one.

Maybe you could blog for someone to sponsor your Satnav Tom
just kiddin

By: Robin Blandford

Robin Blandford — Tue, 22 Aug 2006 17:08:05 +0000

Garmin Nuvi is apparently… da Bomb!

http://www.bytesurgery.com/gearedup/2006/01/garmin-nuvi-blog.html

Fancy that, I also have a website about it!!

http://www.findmeagps.com/specs/Car Navigation/

By: Tom Raftery

Tom Raftery — Tue, 22 Aug 2006 16:27:12 +0000

TomTom’s maps don’t appear to cover Ireland though.

By: Mark

Mark — Tue, 22 Aug 2006 16:09:07 +0000

Having been lost on numerous continents I’ve found that Tom Tom make the most user friendly units but Garmin are the most accurate, Garmin units can be pretty user hostile though.

All are seriously overpriced.

http://www.globalpositioningsystems.co.uk/