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Originally posted by ZappCatt
There are a couple of items I would love to see added to the software reviews.
1) How are the Maps organized? a)County by County b) East/West US, c) State by State
2) Is there a choice to "make your own maps"
3) Is there any limitation on the amount of maps you can have loaded at once? Does the software support "dynamic loading of maps"
4) How do you go about creating the route/figuring out what maps you need?
For example. Mapopolis is county by county. I would like to drive from SF to LA..How the HECK would I figure out how many/which counties I would go through?
THANKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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For Routis :
1. Two CDROM's (East/West) with State by State maps.
2. Yes, in a radius up to 125 miles of any point.
3. No, maps are loaded when the software starts.
4. Use the desktop software to figure out the states you need. Do the routing on the Axim. (It's quick.)
For the Mapopolis question, it has a "Major roads" version of all of California. Use that to plan the route, then add the counties at the start and end (where most of the turns are to get to the freeways). It also shows the counties you traverse, if you want to load them all.
tgreenstein said, "With Mapopolis all routing is done on the PPC, and both the starting and ending points must be onscreen." That is not technically accurate. Both origin and destination must be on the maps in memory, but you can enter addresses and nav from one to another that way without either being on the screen. The map can be zoomed in after it displays the entire route to whatever scale you want.