Calis Beach and Fethiye Turkey Discussion Forum
General Topics => All things that have nothing to do with Turkey => Topic started by: KKOB on March 04, 2011, 20:47:47 PM
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As many of you know I'm currently dashing all over the UK collecting and delivering vehicles. While doing it, I'm using my daughter's old Tom Tom but I need to think about getting my own.
Can anyone recommend which model to get that will cover the UK and Europe and will also allow me to add Turkey at a later date ?
Lance don't bother answering this 'cos it's way out of your league cheers. ;):D ;)
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Tom Tom XL you can buy maps, we have Turkey but to be honest we spend most of our time driving in the middle of nowhere as the road we are on is not on the map. Less to do with the model and more to do with Turkey!
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Get a decent Nokia smart phone and you will get worldwide sat nav for free. We used my wife's 5800 in NZ recently (formerly my phone before I went iphone)and it was fantastic.
I hear the new n8 is fantastic and also has a 12mp camera.
All you do is go onto the nokia website and you can download any country you want - as long as they have roads lol.
Added bonus is that you don't need to have a signal from your provider to use it. It just uses the satelite and there is no charge for this at all.
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Stoop, Does the Nokia give voice instructions as well as pictorial when on SatNav?
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I just use FatNav that comes with instructions but not very acurate:D
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Or TinkNav? Most of what it says is rubbish but it keeps you entertained ? ;):D ;)
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Speak for yourself ;)
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One of my colleagues has an app for his Ipod Touch that he now uses instead of his very expensive (and useless satnav). It costs about £70 I think and her really recommends it. I use an RAC satnav in my role and find it's fine and I also drive all over the country, but I'm not sure about foreign coverage. This is my 3rd satnav and it's the best one I've had so far.
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KKOB
Yes it gives turn by turn voice instructions and you can also buy cheap car fittings off ebay including car chargers et. I think I paid £5.00 for the charger and window fixing.
It's run by ovi maps and if you google ovi you will see what I mean.
Really easy and excellent quality - added bonus is its free with their smart phones on any tarif.
:)
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Thanks for that Stoop. I'll have a look at it.
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We bought a "Nav Man" off Ebay for my son and it was terrible, the seller's reason for the sale was he could not get on with it and i can see why! It took ages and ages to kick in just used to get a message saying waiting for I think it was some sort of signal to kick in this may last up to am hour!it directed us totally wrong going to Sussex once it was sending us somewhere completely different, luckily we knew on that journey where we were going, that was the day we decided to get rid, and just to top it all off the lady directing us had a lisp!
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Originally posted by stoop
KKOB
Yes it gives turn by turn voice instructions and you can also buy cheap car fittings off ebay including car chargers et. I think I paid �5.00 for the charger and window fixing.
It's run by ovi maps and if you google ovi you will see what I mean.
Really easy and excellent quality - added bonus is its free with their smart phones on any tarif.
:)
Out of interest I Googled ovi and had a look at the map of where I live. It has 973 Sokak labelled as 974 and 974 sokak is labelled as 1295 Sokak and 1005 Sokak is labelled correctly at one end but wrongly labelled as 1298 Sokak at the other end. Other roads look to have numbers too high for the area but I haven't checked any more. Three known errors in a couple of hundred yards would not give me the confidence to use it on a journey.
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See GB's post on the first page. Sums it up I guess.
As I said - we downloaded and used the sat nav in NZ and it was spot on.
What's a Sokak between friends anyway ;-)
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we have a tom tom we find it very good the best buy is a refurbish one from tom tom web site.the europe map covers turkey and still has a years guarantee hope this helps. peter & mary
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Originally posted by stoop
What's a Sokak between friends anyway ;-)
It makes all the difference when you're delivering or collecting someone's car! ;)
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Worst thing about the Tom Tom is getting the damn power lead in the thing,we went from a Garmin point and shoot type thing with no trouble to a must have Tom Tom and we had no end of trouble. we paid for new and what we got was not new it took months to sort out. Now it is sorted we are pleased with it, the traffic system is good on it regarding traffic jams but you do look like the car is hooked up to a life support machine there are so many wires.
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We use a Tom Tom in the UK, to very good effect. I asked the TT support people about the quality of Turkish maps between Antalya and Bodrum and even they said "don't bother". Things might have improved over the past 6 months but I doubt by much.
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Originally posted by TheBruces187
We use a Tom Tom in the UK, to very good effect. I asked the TT support people about the quality of Turkish maps between Antalya and Bodrum and even they said "don't bother". Things might have improved over the past 6 months but I doubt by much.
Seems whatever you use in Turkey it will struggle.
In my opinion the only thing I can pull up the Nokia for is the fact it sometimes takes a while to pick up the satellites. Other then that it is far better than the Halfords one we have (Navsure?)
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Koca Calis - Calis - Akarca - Migros - Fettier - Tasyaka - One Horse Town - Magaluf - Olu Deniz
There you go, the entire region mapped, free of charge :D