2 posts tagged “gps”

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!"

Finally access to the internet again. I use this to post some pictures and news about my trip through Romania.
As I wrote before, the Navigon MN6 is a good program for GPS navigation. Unfortunately it has only about 10% of the roads in Romania on it's Romanian-Map. But anyway, I was quite impressed to see how many roads it knows.

We went by car trough the mountains. Found a nice way (on our paper-map) which we want to try. Ok, when leaving the mainroad, Navigon MN6 didn't know the road we where driving on. (left picture)
Compared to Nokia Maps, which knew the road. (right picture)
But as written in one earlier post, Nokia Maps shows us always driving next to the road. (off-road) Looks like Nokia Maps really has some problems with the Romanian maps because this only is happening here. (at least for me).

So I switched both Navigon and Nokia Maps off and started to use Nokias Sports Tracker instead.
A nice little program which registers a lot of data while driving. You also can use it while walking and cykling. This time we used it in our car. Posting some screen shots here:

And the road got really bad. Up the hill as you see in the screenshots. Also the average speed was not high. At some places we only could drive about 10 km/h. See some pictures of the road here:

But the bad road where forgotten when we arrived at this place with a beautyfull view. :-)

With Sports Tracker you also can export your route at the end so that it can be imported to Google Earth. But it is not possible for me to upload this file here. If anyone would like to see it, just send me an e-mail and I can send the this .kml file.

Finally I just want to add some pictures which I was taking during traveling trough Romania. Mostly I used Navigon MN6 which is visiable on the pictures.
One problem I had in planing routes was that there are not many towns known or places where I want to drive to. While driving on the country roads trough villages, Navigon NM6 often showed nothing then the road. But ok, keep in mind, that it coveres only about 10% of the roads and details on the Romanian Map!! So I'm anyway really pleased with the program.
See here some more pictures.