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Seriously thinking of leaving Ciao now, just too many problems, too often......off by crimbo, you will find me on another well known site, same member name.
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I recently reviewed the TomTom one, which we bought with the Western Europe maps, and I have been waiting to put Jane (our name, after the voice) through her paces in rural France.
Absolutely fantastic, I have no idea how we ever coped without her/it. From getting off the ferry, the map/navigation was spot on, good clear instructions, in plenty of time, and the first time I have ever got through Paris without a hitch.
To give you an idea of how good, we bought a local map of where we were going on the Limousin/Perigord borders, that did not have the town we were staying in (I call it a town loosely) as it was so small, no problem for TomTom, straight there, which was welcome after 7 hours of driving.
We spent two weeks in the area and each day, looked on a big map, or in a leaflet and decided where we wanted to go, typed it in, and away we went, no problem. Now this is not only Motorways and A roads, we are talking about being guided around forst tracks without fault.
Every turn plain to see, a really good function is to 'zoom out' so the roads twists and turns ahead can be seen, okay, so I played the rally driver a bit, lol.
I cannot believe that every saftey camera in France was notified to us, but it was.
My partner and I have discussed at some length how we genuinly believe it is the best money we have ever spent, we love Europe, especially France, and it was terrific.
A great feature is to enable 'points of interest' such as parking places, tourist information offices, recreation grounds etc, when going into a new town abroad, finding somewhere to park or navigating town centres (Limoges, Sarlat etc.) can be daunting to say the least, not with Jane (oops, TomTom Western Europe).
It is very hard to think of any negatives, the only one, and not such a biggie, is that sometimes she (Jane) tells you to turn right or left when really it is only a bend, or bear left or right when it is a turn.
On the way home we decided to avoid Paris and go by night, no problem, night time settings dim the map, and rural roads are no problem.
For our next trip we intend to go into Spain from France and we have no doubt that TomTom will deal adequately.
If anyone is getting a TomTom, buy the Western Europe map, it will save you its cost on one trip, in petrol, maps and above all, stress, how on earth did we manage without?
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(+) Large clear menu for touchscreen. Quick setup to navigate to postcodes. Clear driving instruction. (-) Poor POIs, Lack of route preview. Missing villages. No cam preview found.
(+) Cheap compared to standalone, removes the need for seperate sat nav (-) No post code only search but this can be resolved with adding a house number of any house
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Aug 19th, 2007
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