iPhone Navigation App Comparison Chart

3GGG · Posted: Wed Aug 12, 2009 9:07 am Post subject:

Can we have a row to show if the application pauses or mutes music while giving navigation instructions or not?

gyre · Posted: Wed Aug 12, 2009 10:16 am Post subject:

or alternatively, what the application does to enable voice instructions to be heard above the music. such as: mute, pause, boost, etc.

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MaFt · Posted: Wed Aug 12, 2009 10:31 am Post subject:

MaFt · Posted: Wed Aug 12, 2009 10:37 am Post subject:

shedracer · Occasional Visitor Joined: Mar 27, 2006 Posts: 17

Question for those that might know, using either Navigon or Copilot (yes I have both), what does it mean when the satnav says "beware, your destination is in a restricted area", when you set a destination?

Edit: sorry posted in wrong place. Embarassed

BigPerk · Posted: Wed Aug 12, 2009 2:32 pm Post subject:

I've had it where the hotel I was navigating to was in a pedestrianised area. I guess another example might be if you were in a no-through road and specified a destination past a no-entry sign (assuming it couldn't re-route you properly from that point). Basically where a non-emergency vehicle isn't supposed to go I think.
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DennyL · Regular Visitor Joined: Jan 24, 2004 Posts: 114

This table is very useful.

I would also like to know whether any of the products do 'vias' and whether they can avoid parts of routes. My Tomtom can do both of these and I've got used to them.

MaFt · Posted: Wed Aug 12, 2009 7:50 pm Post subject: Re: Very useful

DennyL · Regular Visitor Joined: Jan 24, 2004 Posts: 114

You are right, MaFt, optimising waypoints is the same as vias. My main use of vias is to force the navigator to take a route I know I prefer. I live in Reading and when I go north I don't want set off towards London and then go around the M25 and up the M1, so I use a via to force my Tomtom to go up the M40.

alan_dr · Posted: Thu Aug 13, 2009 6:28 am Post subject:

Copilot can avoid the whole of a particular road on the route, but I can't find an option like Sygic where you can avoid the next, say, 5 miles, and get back onto the same road.
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Redtel · Occasional Visitor Joined: Aug 09, 2009 Posts: 21

CoPilot night mode isn't showing as 'auto' but it is. Not sure what time triggers the switch though. I opened it at 9.30pm and it was in night mode.

MaFt · Posted: Thu Aug 13, 2009 11:43 am Post subject:

Redtel · Occasional Visitor Joined: Aug 09, 2009 Posts: 21

Mike

Just another little update. CoPilot app store description says Dial a POI is coming soon.

gyre · Posted: Thu Aug 13, 2009 2:05 pm Post subject:

/rant

It just shows how rushed these products were to market to get ahead of each other and tomtom.

You'd have thought that dialing a poi would have been a pretty obvious thing to have wired up from day #1.

Likewise using the iphone's own style of keyboard, rather than some naff, tiny, non-querty abortion.

Ditto location selection on a map. I love the way google maps does it. Seems so intuitive. But some of the offerings I've seen in the last week are quite frankly awful.

Also, using some weird scrolling arrows rather than then standard iphone scrolling idioms. I mean... the iphone has been out for how many years now? At least 2.

Kudos to the developers that can bolt in the best of all the iphone idioms while still making a solid product.

/endrant

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MaFt · Posted: Fri Aug 14, 2009 2:40 pm Post subject:

Navigon North American update now available: http://bit.ly/HuVQC

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