Newbie questions

BMW325 · Posted: Wed Jul 21, 2004 7:52 pm Post subject: Newbie questions

Hi

Im new here. I have just decided to get TomTom Navigator 3 and an Ipaq to give me sat nav and I have some questions Smile

My first question is is their anyway with this setup that I could preprogram a complete route myself and then be guided along that route ?

My second question is is their anyway of getting the speed limit of the road currently being travelled on to display for every road ?

Thanks for any help Thumbs Up

Cheers

Steve

lbendlin · Posted: Wed Jul 21, 2004 8:37 pm Post subject:

I believe with TomTom 3 you can now create and save itineraries (not sure though). But TomTom is pretty much the only program that keeps a route through program restarts, so that may work as well.

TomTom does not expose the current speed limit for the street segment you are driving on. Don't forget, the street segment's attributed speed is not necessarily the speed that's on the sign...

The only program that at least tells you the speed attribute is Mapopolis.
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BMW325 · Posted: Thu Jul 22, 2004 8:05 pm Post subject:

Ah thanks that clears that up. My only other worry is how the PDA copes in a very stiffly sprung car which is constantly vibrating and bouncing all over the place does this cause any problems in terms of it jumping out of the mount or the unit resetting or even being damaged I ask the question as my last head unit literally fell to pieces because of it.

Cheers

Steve

stevebuk · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jun 16, 2004 Posts: 22

Hi,

I have a Pajero 2.5 TD. It ratles and shakes like an old truck and my PDA has been fine. I use a vent mount from PDA Mods and find it brilliant. It's the silver one they sell.

Steve

amcluesent · Posted: Thu Jul 22, 2004 8:27 pm Post subject:

The 3.03 upgrade to TT has improved itinaries. I've just returned from touring Scotland where I used TT to guide me on scenic routes I had programmed into it. You can set-up a series of 'drive bys' from the map and then be navigated to each in turn; if you change your mind you can tell TT3 to skip drive-bys and it will route you to the next one in the list. You can save & load intinaries to the ipaq file store.

BTW, I was driving a Nissan 200SX, which I think you would classify as a stiffly sprung car and had no problems with the kit (touching wood...)

BMW325 · Posted: Thu Jul 22, 2004 9:04 pm Post subject:

Thanks for all the advice I will get the IPAQ and Tom Tom3 Smile

Cheers

Steve

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