can someone please also check if this device will

a) work with Maemo Mapper

b) has ability to store taken routes (i want to see if i can map out some biking trails)

thanks


as far as the security of the website goes... i think letstalk.com is secure enough... i wasn't able to see anyone elses order info by punching in random order numbers... also i think they provide you a unique Link to it from a https. looks secure to me.

The reciever does work with Maemo Mapper.

In fact. Maemo Mapper and Navicore can share the GPS receiver!

I just got back from a short trip as co-pilot and I of coarse took the tablet and GPS. You can run both apps at the same time and this IMHO makes the Navicore navigator on the N800 the best in car navigation solution out there.

With this dual setup you can always have a look ahead view that is always oriented north by simple task switching. This works out well for me because I like to check out what is around my destination while I'm on a boring stretch in route. Navicore continues to give spoken direction while using other apps.
No other car navigator that I know of allows you to view maps from different DB's concurrently. As a bonus I can cut down on the amount of maps MM stores to zoom level 4 or 5 and above.

Maemo Mapper will also give voice direction too. I haven't tried it with a MM route yet but when I shut off the GPS, both Sarah and the flite babe told me the connection was lost.

They talked over each other but Sarah's demeanor made herself heard over Flitey's matter of fact voice.

I'm thinkin' Sarah would be hotter looking too... in a young librarian sort of way.

One fault though... Sarah apparently thinks she is being kept in a cell phone. There are a few phrases used when you arrive at your destination and the program must choose one at random because so far, each time I've heard one it was different... Today i heard Sarah say "Congratulations. You have arrived at your destination and your cell phone thanks you for using Navicore software." or some such.

haha
in case you mistake for thinking that MM was responsible for the arrival at your destination...

Please N800 Navicore owners, can you tell how smooth is the software ? How many pictures / seconds ?

Eric

arg. they sure sold out fast. i should have been quicker...


estimated time of arrival just is.

my brother was down from canada visiting over the weekend. so we got into a conversation about the best route back to his home base. we live in vermont, one of those border states. using the n800 and the navicore software i tried to put in his village town city and was told they couldn't find it. so i switched to the canada and alaska region from the eastern us region. wow, found the city right away, even the address. but when we attempted to plan the route? right, couldn't find the route. we weren't in canada yet, dorothy; navicore couldn't start navigating.

so we switched back to the eastern us. since we're on a major highway we figured it could probably find a large canadian city that was nearby and had a major highway leading to it. nope, couldn't find montreal.
i think navicore and nokia need to rethink their us/canada(/mexico?) marketing strategy.

we tried gnuite's maemo mapper. it was able to plot a us to canada route from one small city to another small city in about the wink of an eye, though downloading the maps to get there took a while longer. mm seemed to have the rout figured out before the maps were available.

my disappointment with navicore is growing. i dislike the need to open a whole new screen when attempting to type in the city name, or address or street number. and it peeves me the software doesn't start suggesting a city name as i start to type. it disturbs me the maps seem to be old. they changed the routing of a major city street in this little city a few years ago, but teleatlas and navicore still show the car leaving the 'old' road and driving through the middle of a field.

i am beginning to think the navicore software and teleatlas maps require more patience than i'm will to give them. especially when a little home brew piece of software from a writer who has barely enough time in a day for his real job, is able to develop something as sweet and usable as maemo mapper. i do like the more visible screen roads teleatlas developed, but i was impressed with the speed of gnuite's program. i do like the navicore selection of what sound like real humans, but the machine like voice of mm is able to read out both the current street and the street to be turned on to.

maybe i better check the list of gps receivers that work with the n800.

john

@jdr93 :
Have you tried any other GPS solutions such as standalone TomTom units or one of the many different iterations for mobile phones? I am thinking that Teleatlus simply has poor maps for your area and their trans border algorithm is not functional. I must say that I wouldn't like my GPS reading to me all the time, I prefer the name of the road to appear on the map and thats it.

TomTom (at least the v4 I have) couldn't route across maps either, so they added a 'Major Roads of Europe' map for that, enough to get you across the borders, then you could (if necessary) switch to a local map.

As for voice vs. text on screen.. in Italy, at least, if you look away from the road for a _second_ you're dead. You learn that pretty fast (or you're dead..). So I just listen to the voice on my TomTom most of the time, except when I'm standing still. If you can manage to place the screen [the N800] somewhere in the visual field of the road it's probably a bit safer. Some of the images posted earlier seemed to be ok in that respect.

Just got my navicore n800 kit yesterday. I didn't have any problem getting from Letstalk.com, they were quite fast in fact, no email, or confirmation problem whatsoever. Last time I bought a nokia communicator from them didn't have any problem either.

I am very impress with the maps, it even have my neighborhood even though the area is very new. GPS works well also.

There is a couple of areas that could be improved on though. POI search is awkward, can't display restaurant by catagory. Search is long, everytime I enter a field to search it starts the search without letting me fill in the other field to narrow down the search. Maybe I'm doing something wrong.

The N800 does not work too well in bright day light. They should have included some kind of hood in the kit. Also it would be nice if the adapter powers the GPS and the n800. Scrolling is not as smooth as I like it to be but acceptable. Should be able to drag and scroll maps like google maps, but on the n800 you can only use the pad to scroll.

Software lags behind about 1 seconds. I'm already at an intersection then it shows on the gps. Of course I'm just driving around my neighborhood, don't know how well it does on a freeway. Although, the software will tell you ahead of time what the next turn is.

Not as good as my car internal GPS, but to be fair I've never found a GPS that works as well as my in-car GPS and I've tried several of them that are much more than the navicore kit.

I've only tried out Sara voice, she seems pushy. If she was a girlfriend you might have to dump her.

Overall, it's pretty good. I'd give the product around 7.5 our of 10.