On 02/08/15 16:32, James Freer wrote:
On 2 August 2015 at 10:47, Chris Walker alug_cdw@the-walker-household.co.uk wrote:
On Sun, 2 Aug 2015 09:40:14 +0100 Chris Green cl@isbd.net wrote:
I found Here! at least as good as the native Garmin offerings, better in some ways. I didn't use Google Maps at all.
Here (Navteq as was) provide the maps for the sat nav in my car. For the 2015 update, the maps were dated Q4 2013 so how up-to-date are the phone versions? I have Here maps on my Jolla phone but as I have the car unit and a Tomtom, I don't bother with the phone software.
If I was to have any paid-for mapping software, I'd go for Sygic. I had that on my Nokia N900 and also at one time on the Jolla but moved it to a Motorola phone belonging to one of my sons. Sygic comes with lifetime updates as do some of the new Tomtom and I believe, Garmin units.
The other thing I was going to say was - how good do you find postcodes?
Doing delivery each day i find them poor. More often than not I put in the road and village/town these days. I hadn't realised they were that bad. e.g. Rougham ind est has just one postcode.... loads of roads to find one's way around.
My road (S. Norfolk) is around ⅝ mile long (I'd guess) and has one postcode for the lot, which includes a few dwellings down long lokes.
For my part, I have no use for a satnav.