OY Sat Nav Tom tiddly tom tom?

Daughter aged 18 knows it all, knows **** all in reality so she calls me and
says she is lost in the car and going towards a village she has never heard
of and how does she get home?

So i have a picture in my mind where she is and spend 10 minutes directing
her home, so my question is what Sat Nav unit should i get (portable) for
her, mind you i might want a loan of it sometimes when i nip out, and i
suspect her mother will also use it.

So, anyone got a contact for a good deal, can they have speed camera
locations put in and updated, i know naff all about them so at your mercy.

Thanks
Alan

 

Carphone Whorehouse have Garmin i3s for £99.99 at the moment.

I've had one for a few months and can't really fault it.

 

Seconded. Brother-in-law bought one a week ago and is highly chuffed with
it. Fast free delivery too.

http://tinyurl.com/yn5c8f

 

P.S. It says it's out of stock but you can still order it.

 

AA Road Atlas, about £5.99 in a bucket bookshop.

Personally I have TomTom, but it's wrong about 75% of the time on the last
fiddly bits and it winds me up.

Maps and the ability to read them, possibly coupled toi a GPS device that'll
pinpoint your exact current location would be a far better investment....

Dave

 

I have TomTom Mobile on my Nokia phone and it works well in the cradle on
the dashboard.

 

Turded. I have the I2 - identical apart from mine's the pikey black and
white version. Currently £89.99 in Amazon
(http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000CI4TX4/kelkoocpc-electronics-gps-21/ref=nosim).

Great for the UK, and you can download speed camera databases, but don't
plan to upgrade to Europe, or even more up-to-date UK maps - that involves
buying new pre-programmed memory cards that cost as much, or more than the
unit.

 

Seconded, but you'll find one cheaper online.

http://www.comet.co.uk/cometbrowse/product.do?sku=353558

 

But if someone had just bought a new Garmin and wanted to share the data
with those of us whose maps are a year old now, he could just put the
card in a laptop and copy the data files....

 

I'm afraid that doesn't work.

There's a 'hidden' set of data on the Garmin cards which stops you from
swapping cards and / or content of cards between units.

 

Wow, you must be unlucky, I've had the original tom tom go for a few years
now and its never put a foot wrong.
I've always updated it with the latest maps of w.europe and its been 99%
reliable.
I travel a lot in the UK/France/Germany and Benalux and am a totally happy
camper and couldn't praise it enough.

 

Alan tossed off:

I have a Navman ICN320.

Cheap, pikey, easy to use, often gets it wrong.

I don't think that a satnav is a 100% replacement for a good sense of
direction and the ability to read a map.

--
Dan L

1996 Kawasaki ZR1100 Zephyr

BOTAFOT #140 (KotL 2005/6)
X-FOT#000
DIAABTCOD #26
BOMB#18 (slow)
OMF#11

 

Mine's the PDA version.. It has the crappest route round Paris to/from
Orleans I've ever read, which accounts for a large number of the spurious
directions. Others include, in the past, not having the M6 Toll on the
maps, not having the new Derby/A50 link road on the maps, driving round in
circles in around Reigate because it didn't recognise the turn-off I wanted
as a road, getting into a housing estate in Stoke that had no through route
etc etc etc...

Admittedly most of these happened 18 months-2 years ago and the
maps/software may be better now, but mine has the latest set of maps offered
(about 10-12 months ago) and all that I could see had changed was the M6
Toll suddenly was on them. It didn't change the route around Paris, for
example.

Dave

 

Agreed about the Paris issue... when ever I'm heading North coast to South
coast or vv then it always tries to take me around the periph.

I've added a couple of favourite waypoints for East and West sides which I
now add into any route to avoid any ring road nastiness.

Pricey as they may be, the updated maps are worth it (especially if you can
buy them on your company credit card).

 

Thanks to you all for your comments, after all this i now
have purchased direct from Halfords online with a discount,
a new TomTon One V2.0 for £178.02

So when it arrives i will have fun playing and hopefully
nobody in this house will get lost.

Alan

 

If you do you can always shout to each other.
Unless it's a *really* big house.

 

Four bed detached, and yes, i can shout as loud as i can but
neither wifey or daughter ever answer, dunno why!

Alan