Hi,
I’ve been using Navigator 10 FREE now for a few days on a Garmn/Asus Nuvifone M10 (Windows Mobile 6.5 professional) and it works really well.
Ok - some comments/wishlists…
I’ve noticed that turn restrictions (no right turn) do not work in my neighbourhood, but I’m not sure if this will be corrected in a subsequent dataset of if maybe the relation is incorrect.
I’d like the program to announce which number road is the next one to turn into, Eg “In 500 metres take the second left into Smith Street”. (or the “next” left as appropriate).
I really like the “clockface” arrow that indicates the angle that the roundabout exit road makes to the current
direction of travel. However I’m one person that doesn’t like to look at the display while driving and (though I’ve never seen it on any sat-nav system), I’d love an option to turn on which would result (for example) in the
announcement…
"In 500 Metres at the roundabout, take the second exit at 2 O’Clock.
Regarding the routing, this program, like nearly all the others tries constantly to get you back to the original route when you take a wrong turn, rather than caculating a best route from your new position. My Garmin 3790T is the only one I’ve seen recaculate the new best route and that really impresses me.
I love the journey track saving option but think it could be improved by
a) allow the entire current journey to be shown on the display,
b) allow old journeys to be also shown (in either the same or different colours)
c) allow the NMEA tracks to be exported to GPX.
I sometimes like to see old tracks so that when I am mapping a whole town/village, I can see which roads I’ve missed.
Do you know if this program will be available unders Windows Phone 7? Does this depend on whether Microsoft make .NET framework available for this. If I can run Navigator 10 FREE and BASIC4PPC on Phone 7 then I’ll upgrade immediately.
The synthasised voice works perfectely although it would be nice to be able to edit the pronunciations.
There were a couple dubious routing announcements but these may be data errors and I will investigate further.
From my own situation, I’d like to see address search use admin level 6 (town/city in my case) rather than 10 (suburb) but maybe there could be an option to select between town search or suburb search.
PS I’d be more than happy to pay for a program with all these features but I do want my free/accurate/up-to-date OSM maps
Cheers
Nick