ALK Launch CoPilot Live Premium

hellybob · Occasional Visitor Joined: Feb 17, 2006 Posts: 56

I downloaded this yesterday and have used it today with the ActiveTraffic which is an extra £10.

I also went into upgrades and bought the fuel price add on for £4.99. It took me through the market etc but would just not work, even though it looks like it has taken my money.

I phoned customer support this morning who said fuel prices is definitely not an option in the UK and I shouldn't have been allowed to buy it.

They are now looking into it.

I have v8 and this is much better with the travel updates. To be honest I used Google Navigator more than CP but I think this version will make me use CP more.

wilkhaven · Occasional Visitor Joined: Feb 21, 2007 Posts: 5

I bought the UK map version for £14.99 - quite a bargain even though I was using Co-Pilot 8 bought a couple of years ago when it was first released.

I like the new interface, and the navigation screen looks great on a 5" Dell Streak. However a couple of niggles have surfaced, although there may be an answer to them...

1 - I cannot find a way of changing the routing preference. While the options allow the speed limits of individual roads and their preference to be set I seem to recall that the previous version allowed you to input preferences based on speed, time or distance. I tried a local trip and the automatic route was 7.1 miles and 12 minutes using a motorway. I requested an alternative route an the local roads meant just 3 miles and still 12 minutes.

2 - I would like to import my favourites from CP8

3 - the speed limit on a section of single carriageway A38 in Nottinghamshire was showing as 70mph, the legal limit is 60. I know this is probably a mapping issue beyond the control of ALK, but if they are to include speed limits they really should make sure they are accurate!

4 - Some of the buttons used during general navigation (ie the 'back' key)seem to a little on the small side for my fat fingers - and that's using it on a big 5" screen. This is a bit of a shame as really like the feel of the new menu interfaces.

Other than that I quite like it, albeit in limited local testing today. I'm travelling nationwide for the rest of the week so will get to put it through its paces.

I'm interested in peoples experienceings of the 'ActiveTraffic' service before I commit to buy a subscription, I seem to recall the version for CP8 was roundly slated as worse than useless!

fredbloggs123 · Occasional Visitor Joined: Mar 25, 2008 Posts: 40

Should we use the v8 cameras?

hellybob · Occasional Visitor Joined: Feb 17, 2006 Posts: 56

The V8 seems to work OK for me but why do some of the speed camera icons seem to have little red crosses near them?

ActiveTraffic worked for me really well yesterday. A bit better than Google Navigator (which has picked ups it's game in the last few weeks) and so much better than traffic on V8 which was a total waste of money.

fredbloggs123 · Occasional Visitor Joined: Mar 25, 2008 Posts: 40

As previous comment V8 cameras seem to work. Perhaps the plus sign is where it used to have '2' showing a 2 way camera I think. Any idea how to create POI's ? Used to be a doddle on V8 but I'm stumped on V9. I've managed to import some POI's by just copying the folder from a backup on my PC to EU/UK/Save/user_places/ however even when copying the icons into skin/User from a backup they don't seem to appear on the map.

Mordorf · Regular Visitor Joined: Mar 02, 2006 Posts: 60

hellybob · Occasional Visitor Joined: Feb 17, 2006 Posts: 56

Ha it's probably a 2 my eyesight is not that good!

hellybob · Occasional Visitor Joined: Feb 17, 2006 Posts: 56

I thought I had deleted the CP one but I will have another look.

fredbloggs123 · Occasional Visitor Joined: Mar 25, 2008 Posts: 40

Looking at the ALK support pages POI adding has gone. Imports PocketGPSWorld cameras OK. Is there a way that we can convert existing POI sets to an install file. Would'nt be as easy to add POI's on the fly but at least I could use my existing set's. PocketGPSworld how do you do it?

hellybob · Occasional Visitor Joined: Feb 17, 2006 Posts: 56

My audio notification seems to work OK.

fredbloggs123 · Occasional Visitor Joined: Mar 25, 2008 Posts: 40

Looks like the speedcameras are just in a csv file. So it should be easy to create my own POI set along with a suitable icon/png file. However anybody know how to extract the Lat/Lon's etc from my POI's that I created on my phone?

cejsmith · Posted: Wed Jun 29, 2011 11:41 am Post subject:

Quick question

I normally use my tomtom 720 for Nav duties but the map is a couple of years old. Would I be better to buy the new copilot for my galaxy s2 then upgrading the map on the tomtom?

Is the traffic feature any good??

dillingerdan · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jun 29, 2011 Posts: 1

I am interested in this product but would like to know how the mapping works, regard updates? Will they be updated, and for free, or are they going to be in-app purchases do you think/know. It doesn't really say, and one of the comments suggests the map is already out of date:

"Used 2 days solid in truck, and works faultless. There couple freeze ups , but so did V8 when first came out. Would give 5 stars if map was the latest"

I don't get it, is it out of date? I don't want to drop money and have to pay to then update it.

longwori · Posted: Wed Jun 29, 2011 1:59 pm Post subject:

There are free map updates for one year. How these are applied to your purchase I don't yet know. From what I have read and seen, the maps are inferior to those on my TomTom 520 that is now at least 3 or 4 years old. When I say inferior, from what I have seen they lack the detail of TomTom's mapping. It may well have newer major roads but I cant yet vouch for that having only had it installed for 2 days and only living a mile from work!
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longwori · Posted: Wed Jun 29, 2011 2:04 pm Post subject:

A small feature that I have found and am glad to see is the navigate to OS map reference. This is handy for finding the beginning of walks that give the grid reference as a starting point.
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