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Chat Area => General Car Chat => Topic started by: pauls on 11 October 2015, 22:01:12
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I have been using a garmin sat nav for years but has started playing up. It keeps freezing at totally the wrong time.
I now have a omega with built in sat nav..are they still worth using even without postcode entry or are they to far out of date.
What is the recomended sat nav budget would be around £100.
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I use the 1 thats in mine :y it actually works better than the TomTom One I have at times...
It is a bit clunky to use but is easy when you get used to how it is programmed, but Im almost sure that you can use postcodes with it... Mine is a retro fitted CarIn from a Preface Omega with an updated disc :y
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Also can you buy more upto date disc for it
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The built in one will always be far more reliable than any portable unit.
That said, I use TomTom for smartphone and it's pretty good :y
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Download Here Maps (Nokia Maps) for Free, Android, Windows or IOS, download Free up to date Maps you need and gives live traffic if used with a Data Sim.
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Also can you buy more upto date disc for it
You can but it depends how up to date they actually are...
You also need to be careful of the lazer burning out on the satnav unit itself when using copied discs...
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Also can you buy more upto date disc for it
You can but it depends how up to date they actually are...
You also need to be careful of the lazer burning out on the satnav unit itself when using copied discs...
2011 is the last disc for the NCDR/C range IIRC.
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Download Here Maps (Nokia Maps) for Free, Android, Windows or IOS, download Free up to date Maps you need and gives live traffic if used with a Data Sim.
I use this alongside the NCDC and find it quite good. The traffic is only as good as the number of people who are also using it though.
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Why no postcodes on the CD70 Navi?
It seems a backward step to me. :-\
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Download Here Maps (Nokia Maps) for Free, Android, Windows or IOS, download Free up to date Maps you need and gives live traffic if used with a Data Sim.
Google maps navigation has come a long way. As you travel it gives alternative routes with time added to your journey displayed. Also highlights problem roads but, again, that depends on the amount of people using it.
I'm not saying it is foolproof, but it's free and works well enough.
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Why no postcodes on the CD70 Navi?
It seems a backward step to me. :-\
It supports partial postcode entry, not that I ever use postcodes as entering the address is more reliable and easy enough to do! :y
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Another phone version that works is Sygic - free download, including maps, and fifteen quid if you want a licence to use all the fancy extras like speed cam spotting.
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I find Navmii to be very good, its free if you don't mind an advert at the bottom of the screen when you are searching for your destination. For a total spend of about £4 you have no adds, traffic and speed camera alerts, also doesn't use mobile data to generate maps & street names (they're included in the initial download). It also runs your search through its own directory of streets, POI's etc and Google to give you results. It also searched FourSquare, whatever that is :-\.
I've used this app in the UK and also the US version when I'm over there. With 3 mobile's "Feel at Home" free US Roaming it kicks the ar$e out of $10/day to hire a satnav or £50 to add the maps to my TomTom unit. Its available for iPhone (the version i use), android and probably others as well.
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A top end TomTom might be well over a ton, but free updates for life plus free google poi search and Europe wide mapping. What's not to love?
Oh and it also does full postcodes ::)
:D
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A top end TomTom might be well over a ton, but free updates for life plus free google poi search and Europe wide mapping. What's not to love?
Oh and it also does full postcodes ::)
:D
I've never seen the need for a top-end TomTom, as the large screen is unnecessary and 't use extra stuff over just the nav. But it's the easiest and most intuitive to use, and the routing seems to be better too.
As for full postcodes, why wouldn't you use them? It saves picking the wrong town(try looking at the distance between Rainham and Rainham!), or on a country road that doesn't have house numbers.
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The inbuilt one will always work better, even though it lacks some features.
I bought Tomtom for the phone, and its been updated to the latest version, and the phone is the latest iPhone 6s. I still use the built in car one as a preference.
I had a Tomtom standalone unit, which as everyone knows is somewhere at the end of the Aston Expressway, as they are utter shite, like all portable units.
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or on a country road that doesn't have house numbers.
Postcode won't help in that scenario, it will be exactly the same as entering town/road ;)
Additionally, its was admitted (a few years ago) that 20% of Tomtom's postcode data was wrong. Obviously things have improved, but I still tend to use town/road/number.
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Wifey has been the length and breadth of the country with the Tom Tom fitted as standard in her megane.
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or on a country road that doesn't have house numbers.
Postcode won't help in that scenario, it will be exactly the same as entering town/road ;)
But I use mine all the time for that; farms, cottages and other weird addresses. Rarely have a problem. House numbers tend to pretty accurate too, which helps on long roads that you might be accessing from the middle.
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I have used quite a few sat navs, all of the got me close enough. Then I used my brain. People should try it, it's what we did in the past.
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or on a country road that doesn't have house numbers.
Postcode won't help in that scenario, it will be exactly the same as entering town/road ;)
But I use mine all the time for that; farms, cottages and other weird addresses. Rarely have a problem. House numbers tend to pretty accurate too, which helps on long roads that you might be accessing from the middle.
The numbers and roads come from the digital maps, so accuracy tends not to vary between different devices :y. Hence the NCDC house numbers tend to be equally as accurate as Tomtom or any other device :)
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Did I read on here once that the inbuilt navs have tilt sensors and the like in... Such that you can disconnect the aerial and it will still be accurate after a few journeys? Or, like the night I spent with Charlotte Church and a bucket of chocolate sauce, was I dreaming?
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Did I read on here once that the inbuilt navs have tilt sensors and the like in... Such that you can disconnect the aerial and it will still be accurate after a few journeys? Or, like the night I spent with Charlotte Church and a bucket of chocolate sauce, was I dreaming?
The old CARiN units fitted to MFL Elites were particularly impressive in that respect. Even without an aerial, it would remain accurate for an impressive amount of time, gathering its data from gyros, electronic compasses and speed pulses.
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I use the Nokia maps (Here) on my Android phone,very good it is too,over speed alerts and camera locations all for free !
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I use a 8 year old Garmin that cost £50 from Halfords. Occasionally it throws a wobbly when driving on new roads that arn't on the maps and it thinks I'm driving across fields! ;D
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Did I read on here once that the inbuilt navs have tilt sensors and the like in... Such that you can disconnect the aerial and it will still be accurate after a few journeys? Or, like the night I spent with Charlotte Church and a bucket of chocolate sauce, was I dreaming?
I've had her......and had better. ;) :D
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Not sure about these sat nav things you speak of... I got given a used 2013 AA map and have a girlfriend in the passenger seat. And she's never wrong.
(the side of my head starts hurting for some reason if I suggest any different) :)
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Not sure about these sat nav things you speak of... I got given a used 2013 AA map and have a girlfriend in the passenger seat. And she's never wrong.
(the side of my head starts hurting for some reason if I suggest any different) :)
SatNavs are a lot more versatile, you can turn the volume down, switch them off, shout and swear at them when there talking bollards without any recompense in return, and in extreme circumstances unplug them and chuck them out off the car.
For long boring journeys you can even change the language, just remember how to switch them back to English, something I have to admit to doing, it was all quiet entertaining until 'her indoors' phoned to see how I was doing combined with a very firm 'who's that Polish Girl you've got on the car?'.
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Oh, she understands Polish then!
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Oh, she understands Polish then!
Yep, also Czech, Russian, some German and of course English. ;)
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Wow, clever lady you have there mate. :y
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Oh, she understands Polish then!
Yep, also Czech, Russian, some German and of course English. ;)
MrsGK knows English, and bad English.