I'm planning on buying a gps unit for my Axim X5, and my research is not going well. My needs are so specific that it's difficult to figure out what package would be best. I'm going to assume that most software will work with most GPS units - please correct me if I'm wrong. I'm running WM2003 by the way.
I'm a sales rep and I call on customers in a fairly large area. Some are close together, others are not.
The most important feature I need would be to be able to identify (like a favorite) my customer's locations so I don't have to enter them in every time. Basically, if I'm at Doctor X's office and I decide to go to Dr. Z's office next, I want to be able to set up the quickest route from where I am to where I want to go. The office locations change very rarely, but the order I see them in often does. Basically, I just want to be able to say "I want to go to Dr. Klaatu's office now, what's the quickest route from where I am?"
Next on the importance scale would be rerouting. Occasionally I hit traffic, and I'd love to be able to get off the highway and have it find me a new route that gets me around the traffic.
Useability would also be key. I can't be fooling with the stylus as I'm driving, so buttons would either have to be programmable to the real buttons on the front of the Axim, or large software buttons.
I am pretty sure mapopolis allows you to rout to a contact.
I think mapopolis is your best bet, sounds to me
like you will be sticking around the same city area?
at least with in the same state... mapopolis will rock for that.
also has the re-routing option, so if you hit trafic just jump off
and it'll re-rout you as you go.
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Both Mapopolis and PocketMap Navigator will do pretty much want you want. Both will route you to the address from your "Contacts" list. Both have pretty good rerouting capabilities.
Mapopolis' button mapping is more flexible than PocketMap Navigator's though, and IMO is easier to setup and use. PocketMap Navigator has fixed assignments for the hardware buttons (the assignments are different depending upon which screen you're in) while Mapopolis allows you to assign any of eighteen operations to the hardware buttons. My favorite is the "Voice Status Update", which with one button push will tell you (all of this is configurable) your speed, direction of travel, current street name, time, ETA, and information about your next turn.
There is apparently no option (in Mapopolis) to map a hardware button to "Route to Contacts" or something like that, although it seems to me that you would choose the contact before you started driving anyway, so this wouldn't be a big drawback.
Your needs don't seem that specific to me, every decent navigator does what you said.
I use TomTom 3 which has large buttons (I never use the stylus in the car), and easy configurability to avoid any road or obstacle while on route.
First, yes, my customer's sites are in my contacts list. I had no idea that I could route to a contact with any software, so this is great news.
The rerouting can be pretty important - I can't tell you how many times I've sat in traffic because I didn't know an alternate route to where I was going.
You can add favorite locations in Mapopolis, it’s a snap. As far as using a stylist, I use my finger tip and it works fine. Rerouting in Mapopolis works great, so take that unknown exit and it does a pretty good job of recalculating a new route.
Ok - looking at mapopolis bundles has brought up another question. What does it mean when it says "Limited map region (20 million population in North America) "?
Originally posted by gew95001 Ok - looking at mapopolis bundles has brought up another question. What does it mean when it says "Limited map region (20 million population in North America) "?
In Mapopolis (because of their licensing agreement with Navtech, the producer of their maps) you cannot have county maps totalling more than 20 million population loaded at any given time. That's not usually a problem unless you want to load in the entire NY metropolitan area from CT to NJ simultaneously, or the entire Los Angeles metro area.
You can load as many counties as you want (the whole country, if you've got enough space on your card) on your SD or CF card, but you can't have counties totalling more than 20 million population active in the Mapopolis application at the same time.
The easy way around this is to select (from "Tools/Choose maps") the county you're starting in and the highway maps for all of the states you're likely to travel in, then check "Also load contiguous maps". Mapopolis will load 'em in as needed.
I have routis and it does the same things. Someone correct me if I am wrong but isn't routis and mapopolis the same except for the name? When I did my research that is what I recall finding out. I recently emailed deluo who makes routis and they said an '05 version is coming out in a couple weeks.
Ok, I download mapopolis and a demo map to check it out.
I really don't understand what the fuss is about. IMHO, it's hideous, unintuitive and plain awkward, and that's just the GUI and functionality. The voice is even worse. Am I missing something or is it just the price that's so great about it?
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