Originally Posted by pelago (Post 377753)

Discussed in http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=34409

Originally Posted by drm (Post 377752)

Anybody knows what’s Sygic?
http://www.pocketgpsworld.com/Sygic-...tible-2443.php

Originally Posted by jsbigs (Post 375310)

Does anyone know if you can/will get (or will be able to subscribe to) traffic reports w/Sygic? As I am in my car a lot driving from client to client, this is an invaluable tool I currently use often (in Los Angeles especially) w/TomTom on my Treo 750.

Originally Posted by schaggo (Post 375400)

Why not get in touch with them? They seem to be quite geeky :D
They might even like you ;)

Originally Posted by titan (Post 382085)

Google Navigation from Droid has been "ported" to the G1
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=582656

as soon as we have a running Dalvik port for Maemo, we could run Google Navigation+Voice, too.

Originally Posted by schaggo (Post 375365)

Sygic started off a couple years ago as some one-guy-project or so :p They were and still are quite small but their nav system covers every major player on the market. Sygic Drive runs on Windows Mobile, Android, UIQ, S60, even iPhone I believe and now Maemo.

It's not the best available, but fulfills everything a nav system has to fulfill. Optically it's drawing alot from TomTom, since it started off as a TomTom clone ;) Sygic has been bought by Teleatlas a couple years ago and Teleatlas themselves belong to TomTom. So it now even became it's bigger cousins little fellow :)


No, Sygic doesnt offer any subscription based additional functionality other than a (I believe) monthly updated speed camera database. They are just too new in the business and still too small.


They are completely different to Google Maps. Sygic Drive is what TomTom or Navigon or Garmin is, an onboard offline navigation solution where you put that and that many megabytes or gigabytes of map data onto your device/memory card and that's the data the program accesses. As mentioned, optically it started off as a complete TomTom rip-off clone and still looks quite similar. It's not fully matured yet but it's cheap and cheerful, offers everything a navigation prog has to offer. And is owned by the major mapping company in the world so there will always be map updates ;) Cant compare to Ovi Maps, don't know it yet.

Edit: Don't know Ovi maps I mean. I'm running around with some fancy robot in my pocket at the moment ;-)

Originally Posted by romanianusa (Post 382266)

No kiddin? Can't wait to port Google Map Nav to N900.