Best Price for PocketPC Mapping Products?

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If you look a little harder, Mapopolis is $99 for all of North America, at
the Navigator level.
..http://www.mapopolis.com/subscriptions.jsp?s=1124672840078655&p=&q=2
That's still download, though you can download entire states in a single
zip.

Nobody gives you all the maps for free. The price you pay is largely for the
maps. Nobody I'm aware of sells anything on an SD card for the PPC. Most are
designed for you to load the areas of interest to an SD, or other memory
card from the desktop. I think I have looked and found one or two that you
could get all the maps on a 1G card, but I don't recall which ones they
were. You tend to sacrifice detail for quantity. PocketGPS World has a good
roundup of US street routing packages. GPSPassion has a nice comparison
table at http://www.gpspassion.com/en/software/Nav_Comp_e.htm. It doesn't
tell you how much space all of the USA would take up, but it does cover how
the maps are managed, the package price, and further info links.



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Sven
MVP - Mobile Devices
"Will" <westes-usc@noemail.nospam> wrote in message
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> Are there any high quality mapping programs for PocketPC that give you all
> of the maps for free with the software? I've looked at Mapopolis, but
> it's $19/map and you download each individually, which is a huge hassle.
> I want everything loaded and ready to go on a 1 GB SD card on the
> PocketPC.
>
> --
> Will
>
>

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Only having used Mapopolis of those two, I couldn't give a comparison. You
could always install Mapopolis to your SD card. Not sure what the big deal
there is. Not sure what you mean by changeable waypoints. Mapopolis allows
you to add your own waypoints, though I don't think you can change the ones
it comes with. I can't believe CoPilot's map doesn't move. All of them have
some way of keeping up with where you are considering it is unlikely that
you will be zoomed out so far, your entire trip will be on the screen. Some
leave your position fixed at the screen center and the map moves underneath
(Mapopolis does). Some have the map fixed and you move on top of it, but
when you get to the edge, the map does shift. Maybe that's what's going on.

If you want to try Mapopolis, do get the current beta from the Mapopolis
forum on gpspassion. It's quite stable and a darned sight better than the
last true release. They let you download a sample map or two, that I believe
time out in a week or two, but you'll get a feel for it.

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Sven
MVP - Mobile Devices
"Will" <westes-usc@noemail.nospam> wrote in message
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> If you look a little harder, Mapopolis 4.5 Beta Windows Installer for
> PocketPC allows you to target the entire application to install on your
> SD.
>
> Thanks for the excellent review of PocketPC navigation software. He has
> a
> later version posted here:
>
> http://www.gpspassion.com/en/software/NavOverview.htm
>
> Based on this, for regional driving it looks like Mapopolis and Intellinav
> (sold by OEM inavcorp as iGuidance) are the two leaders. Any thoughts on
> which is better?
>
> I like the changeable waypoints described for CoPilot, but not having a
> moving map seems like a huge mistake.
>
> --
> Will
>
>
> "Sven" <sejohannsen@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:eR594krpFHA.3544@TK2MSFTNGP15.phx.gbl...
>> If you look a little harder, Mapopolis is $99 for all of North America,
>> at
>> the Navigator level.
>> .http://www.mapopolis.com/subscriptions.jsp?s=1124672840078655&p=&q=2
>> That's still download, though you can download entire states in a single
>> zip.
>>
>> Nobody gives you all the maps for free. The price you pay is largely for
> the
>> maps. Nobody I'm aware of sells anything on an SD card for the PPC. Most
> are
>> designed for you to load the areas of interest to an SD, or other memory
>> card from the desktop. I think I have looked and found one or two that
>> you
>> could get all the maps on a 1G card, but I don't recall which ones they
>> were. You tend to sacrifice detail for quantity. PocketGPS World has a
> good
>> roundup of US street routing packages. GPSPassion has a nice comparison
>> table at http://www.gpspassion.com/en/software/Nav_Comp_e.htm. It doesn't
>> tell you how much space all of the USA would take up, but it does cover
> how
>> the maps are managed, the package price, and further info links.
>
>