Thread: Biggest Disappointment: Nav Software
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Darius2006 is offline Darius2006
2007-11-26 , 20:51
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Originally Posted by TA-t3 View Post
Ah, well. Maps aren't enough. It's tougher to write good navigation software than many people think. Sounds to me like TomTom solved the problems reported in Navicore years ago. For example, my 2004 version of TT comes not only with regional maps, but also with a special map called 'major roads of Europe', and to navigate from Paris to Wien (Vienna) you just load mjoe and off you go. Then, if you need to go to some minor road not covered in mjoe when you're near your target you just switch to the local region. I believe it's an even smoother operation in newer versions of TT (I bought TT5 too but as I'm happy enough with the older version I've yet to install it).
My dear friend,

TomTom is already out of navigation business with old-generation embedded navigation devices based on RDS-TMC road data.

As you see, Navicore, WayFinder, Nav4All, NaviExpert, Maemo Mapper, Navit, Nokia maps, Google maps, Yahoo maps, MS maps and others,
all they come with virtual navigation, vector maps, generated by server and downloaded to navigation cell phone or PDA, tablet.

Communication is two-way, duplex over GPRS enabled cell phones.

Its is very badly vector maps systems - Navteq has been acquired by Nokia, having no experience with navigation and TeleAtlas by TomTom having no experience with cell phones.

We should give up an idea to of buying a new navigation in 1-2 years time to let new owners of vector maps systems to develop new 3D generation navigation systems, software, equipment.

Wjhat is already offered on a market are 5-years old systems, navigation ideas, 20 years old navigation, routing algorithms.

Nothing new can be expected over next 1-2 years.

Developing 3D generation navigation systems is not very complicated.
The only probvlem is no market demand for new, expensive systems and charging plans. Pay-per-route can't work as long as you get free routing from your $100 navigation devices with voice commands.

Darius