2 posts tagged “budapest”

Hi people out there,
now I'm back in Sweden and made some nice screenshots of Navigon MN6 while navigating trough Budapest.

So as you maybe where reading in one of my previous posts, I was on vacation in Romania and now traveling back to Budapest in Hungary. Here I have a screen shot of the Navigon before I was crossing the border to Hungary.

As you see on the next picture, the detail of the map was increasing a lot, when crossing the border to Hungary.

Navigon is writing on there homepage that they homepage, Mobile Navigator 6 has a map coverage of 10% in Romania and 30% in Hungary. I could see this directly when I drove with the car trough towns in Hungary, compared to Romania. The maps for the towns where much more detailed in Hungary. Not only the main roads trough the towns where shown as in Romania.
So my journey took me further to Budapest. As I wrote in my previouse post, I had already saved the addresses where I want to drive to in advance into Navigon MN6. Searching the location with knowing the road-name in Budapest was no problem.
Here a picture while driving on the motorway in Hungary.

Actually I switched the Navigon MN6 off while driving on the motorway because the external cigarret charger was now working on the rental car we had. So to save battery on my N95 I just switched Navigon MN6 on again when we where near Budapest.

Also shown on the screenshot is, that Navigon again shows the allowed maximum speed on the road you are driving on. This nice function was not available on the map in Romania.
In Budapest itself we Navigon look like this, while driving on main roads.

Navigon was showing where patrol stations are, car dealers, hispital and other points of interest. A very nice feature.
The navigation in Budapest was no big problem. Only one problem we have seen several times. Quit often, Navigon said that we should turn left on main roads, where it was not possible to turn left. Ok, it was possible, but according to the signs on the crossroad it was not allowed. So we had to contiue strait ahead or turn right somehow to get to this road. All the time, the way to our planed tagret was re-calculated and somehow we finally got to the place we want.
But it was a bit frustrating. Aways when Navigon MN6 told us "in 700 meters, turn left" we where asking ourself: Will it really be possible to turn left there!?. Everytime when it was possible we where happy! :-)
The most of the screenshots from Navigon MN6 are taking while using the 3D View. I like this most.
But here is one screenshot taking in 2D view.

As you see on the picture, Navigon shows whether it is only possible to drive in one direction on this road or not.
Also it was very usefull to see the real name of the exit sign, when leaving the motorway, as shown on the picture bellow. The green sign with the name. - It's rather impossible to get the wrong exit with this nice function!

There is one more nice feature I want to show you on Navigon MN6.
As you have seen on the screenshots done on my trip trough Hungary, the  maximum allowed speed limit.
In the preferences you can adjust at which speeding the program should warn you. I adjusted Navigon to alert me when I'm driving more then 20km/h to much.
Here the picture when driving within the speed limit.

And here the picture with the sign next the the speed limit sign, when you are driving to fast. Together with the voice alert "Attention!"

Now, my vacation in Romania is nearly over. Tomorrow I'm going to Budapest in Hungary where I will stay at friends for two more days before the flight goes back to Sweden from there.
Today, still in Romania, I'm preparing my N95 with Navigon MobileNavigator 6 for the journey to Budapest. The map detail for Hungary is much better then for Romania.
So I was searching for the adresses in Navigon MN6. See the screenshot from the program while selecting the adress.

I saved the position as a favorit and where then watching the place on the map. Looks like map for Budapest is very detailed. All three entered roads where found and I'm looking forward to see how the navigation in the Hungarian capital will work.

As soon as I have an internet connection again, I will post some results and maybe some more screenshots.