ROAD ANGEL DATABASE

Chris_UK · Occasional Visitor Joined: Apr 23, 2006 Posts: 35

Anyone have ideas as to if RoadAngel's database is still the most comprehensive and up to date or are others such as pocketgpsworld more comprehensive?

neilrobi · Occasional Visitor Joined: Mar 01, 2006 Posts: 6

Have a read here http://www.pocketgpsworld.com/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=39181&highlight=

mcwarre · Regular Visitor Joined: Mar 25, 2004 Posts: 157

MaFt · Posted: Sun Jan 21, 2007 9:10 am Post subject: Re: ROAD ANGEL DATABASE

OrangeJuice · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jun 30, 2007 Posts: 19

I've just ditched my RoadAngel... was never alerted to any temporary mobile cameras and it didnt have any specs warning. They never told you when the database was changed/or in what way so ended up feeling it was a total waste of time.

jeff4066 · Occasional Visitor Joined: May 15, 2005 Posts: 14

I have just bought a Road angel Plus and so pleased. I had a Origin B2 but they wanted £40 to fix it as I lost the sound on it and then another £50 for the annual update so I ditched it. I have covered about 700 miles in various places across the UK this week and found the database much better than the Origin b2 by a long way. I like the fact it has all the camera van sites and and as I travel around so much I thought I knew where most of them were but this really saved me this week.

mcwarre · Regular Visitor Joined: Mar 25, 2004 Posts: 157

silverblack · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jan 21, 2007 Posts: 8

Ive just sold my Road Angel Plus.It was taking far to long to lock onto to the sat and display the speed upto 20 mins.If you dont renew the subs you get a message on screen telling you of this and the unit wont work until you press a button on the unit.Meaning the motion sensor is a waste of time.£50 a year is extortionate when you can get a Novus with free updates for life.

truckin_man78 · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jul 23, 2008 Posts: 2

can you download any maps for hgv as my road angel takes me down low bridges and dont have a lot of industrul sites on feal like lobing it out the windo Twisted Evil

thanks scott

smstextaddict · Posted: Fri Jul 25, 2008 12:06 am Post subject:

got rid of my road angel, only really used it as a laser detector to be truthful as many roadworks were never there and when i purchased a talex i ran them side by side and got rid of the one which was the least accurate, still using the same device 2 years on.

shaunieF · Banned Joined: Jul 29, 2008 Posts: 2

I ran a Road Angel Compact for about 2 months and found the mobile alerts completely irrelevant. I was getting alerted to almost every motorway bridge as a potential trap which is cleary a waste of time. I also found in that time they were slow in adding temporary cameras in roadworks. A friend of mine swears by his Snooper so I purchased the Sapphire - now only £99 so much cheaper and I think it is far better. Its smaller, slimmer has better graphics and the mobile alerts seem more accurate. There are a lot less of them so you tend to take more notice of them. The fixed database seems perfect. It hasn't missed one and gives good clear information of each one. It is also much easier to download than the Road Angel so many plusses all round.

Darren · Posted: Tue Jul 29, 2008 1:59 pm Post subject:

rwsh · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jun 24, 2006 Posts: 1

My Road Angel Plus (DB updated very recently) still does not warn of the average speed cameras on the A14 north of Cambridge, which have been active for more than a year. They are pretty obvious, but it's pathetic that the DB is so out of date. And no, it isn't good on mobile sites, either. I have never seen a mobile cam on a site it warned about, but plenty at places it didn't.

And they charge a subscription for this. I wouldn't recommend them. I've had better experiences with the speedcam DB downloaded from this site (in CoPilot), though it overwarns about mobile sites.

silverblack · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jan 21, 2007 Posts: 8

Can the pocketgps database not be used on the road angel ?

MaFt · Posted: Sat Aug 16, 2008 10:27 am Post subject:

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