Comments on: Mapopolis to add Spoken Navigation

Works great too. Been using the beta for a few weeks and the route generation really kicks. Who needs street signs anymore?

Cant seem to use my old mapopolis maps. what kind of map does it need?

I can hear it now....

Palm: "You have a left turn approaching in a quarter mile."

Palm: "You have a left turn approaching in 100 yards."

Palm: "You just missed your left hand turn."

Palm: "Fatal exception; memory underchunk at..... RESET"

(Sort of reminds me of the Eddie Murphy routine about talking cars).

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"Cant seem to use my old mapopolis maps. what kind of map does it need?"

You need the Navigator maps for PPC. Just download and follow the instructions on the Mapopolis beta page.

"Fatal exception; memory underchunk at..... RESET"

Don't think it's vocabulary goes quite that far :)

The beta has been very stable, especially the current one. Have not been able to make it crash even when trying to do so.

I've been using the beta version for more than a week now with my Sony Clie TG50 OS5 and GlobalSat device. It works great until I use the navagation function... it will generate a route (rather quickly), route and turn directions are displayed, distance and eta are updated as I drive... Then, about 1/4 mile before a turn, when it's time for the voice prompt it crashes.. error message, program shuts down.
I've written Mapopolis support although I'm still waing for a response.
I'm glad to hear it's working for some of you. Hope they can make it work for me.

Ummm...how is it a iQue killer? From the reviews I've read, the iQue seems to do all this device can do and much more.

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You guys do realize that Garmin makes the iQue 3600, right?

They do, probably meant to say software instead of device.

I have the same issue. In addition, there is no good way to get a "high level" view. If I buy/download an entire state of maps and want to move from county to county I have to know the name of each and every county. Since I can't load the entire state into main memory it makes the travelling experience next to useless. If they could fix this major problem the spoken direction stuff would be useful.

I had thought that dynamic loading from the card while you were driving would be a good solution. However, this would mean that you'd need to download every detail map between your two points in order for this to work. If you were missing a map, or the system had to load four maps at the same time which exceeded available RAM, the whole process would break.

As a more reliable soultion, they have skeletal maps with all the major roadways, which can be used together with the start and destination detail maps. Works kind of like the barbell style maps in other programs, but you get a lot more info with Mapopolis.