"Philip" <> wrote in message
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> Phil wrote:
>> Hi can anyone tell me if
>>
>> 1 Are they any good and
>>
>> 2 Can these connect to the net
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>>
> My experience of Navman is that it's a clever product, but be prepared for
> the most paranoid authentification procedures if you ever want to install
> a different map.
>
> On my in-car model IN635, the acquisition, for a stonking $400, of
> Australian maps led to a downward spiral of paranoia, with Navman's
> website refusing to talk to my computer until I disabled the firewall and
> turned off my virus protection, and even then it wouldn't install. It took
> a one hour call to the help desk to go through a repetitive procedure that
> their own tech support agreed was beyond all reasonable belief.
>
> Incidentally, the map of New Zealand is out of date and at one point on SH
> 1 from Northland to Auckland tells me to take a right turn off the highway
> and into a farm track, which it never mentions again. There are no street
> numbers in the index, which is poorly organised - try finding a place in
> Great South Road, Auckland, if you don't know the name of the district the
> place is in.
>
> Oh yeah, and the Australian map is pretty shoddy: I have family in Taree
> and Redhead Beach NSW. Navman couldn't find a subdivision more than five
> years old in Redhead Beach, and had no record at all of Taree, a town of
> some 20 000 people that's been there for more than 150 years.
>
> A brilliant idea, but crap execution. Less time spent on paranoid copy
> protection and more time spent on getting the maps right would pay
> dividends.
>
They do update their maps and release some updates - but the main thing is,
theirs is the only product available around. Unless you are happy with
installing some software on your PC or Pocket PC and then manually
configuring maps from scanned images.
--
Mauricio Freitas
www.geekzone.co.nz
Microsoft MVP Mobile Devices
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