PDA software and maps - Australia

Hi,

I've recently been given a bluetooth GPS receiver and already have a
Windows Mobile 5 PDA. Any of you knowledgeable people out there have any
suggestions on what software and maps to use for in-car street-level
navigation around NSW and beyond?

Thanks.

Cider Monster wrote:
Personally, I wouldn't buy anything just now. Give it a month or two,
and the new version of Sensis maps should be out, which hopefully will
be significantly better than the garbage they are peddling now.
Once that happens, TomTom is probably the easiest to use, while CoPilot
is arguably the most powerful. For example CoPilot can do multi-route
trips with destination order optimisation, and can also accept locations
entered by latitude and longitude. However it's user interface is a
little ordinary, and to my mind it looks ugly. TomTom looks pretty, is
very easy to use and fast to enter locations, but is missing a few of
the more powerful features such as multi-destination optimisations. I
haven't had a good look at destinator to get a feel for it's power, but
it's user interface also looks very clunky like CoPilot's. Navman's UI
is a little better than Copilot and Destinator, but is not as easy as
TomTom, and also lacks the more advanced features of Copilot.
The one big ease of use benefit of TomTom is that when entering towns it
brings up big letters on the screen, and it's menu options are also big,
so you can do pretty much everything by touching your finger on the
screen. The three others require you to use the normal pocket-pc typing
methods - pop up keyboard, graffiti, transcriber etc - so you must use
your stylus to enter anything.
All of the programs use the same maps, so mapping detail is identical.
Currently this is pretty ordinary, hopefully the new maps to be released
shortly will address this (at least partially).

What a misguided load of crap !!!

Hi Graham,

Which bit do you think is misguided? He's said a lot.

BarnOwl wrote: