I know all you lot use laptops, gps and sat nav to find your way around!
Im just looking at my maps and find most of them have pages missing, dog eared and out of date. My Italian tile map is 12 years old.
I have a K + F Atlas Routier France Belgium Luxembourg written in Latin and even my AA France map is 1999.
Do IGN do a road atlas with all the maps in one book? Otherwise what France maps do you recommend. I dont particularly like loose michelin maps all over though they are good for route planning.
Itās a Nokia 9210 communicator (large mobile phone) with a GPS attachment. Itās a couple of years old and a bit out of date now. The phone cost me nothinga sit was a free upgrade and I canāt remember what the GPS bit cost. It runs a version of Tom Tom route finding software.
There are newer, better and cheaper things out ther now and you can find lots of info at www.pocketgps.co.uk, iām looking to get a newer system shortly.
I still use maps my map of Germany is 1994 vintage and the Dutch and Belgian ones arenĆĀ“t much younger for France I use the good old Michelin and for Spain the Campsa as motorways and such donĆĀ“t get moved around all that often I donĆĀ“t see the point in spending a lot of money on electronical gadgets.
Iāve got a Falk map and it seems to show a border running down through the middle of Germany.
Didnāt I read somewhere a couple of years ago that theyād knocked some sort of wall down in Berlin?Probably a truck driver reversed into it.
I must have a couple of hundred Ā£Ā£Ā£s worth of maps in my cab.
They are well worn and getting a little dodgy concerning newer roads which have been built, but which I donāt know about. I donāt have a regular route or even area anymore so its difficult to keep up to date by talking to other drivers. Several now need replacing, which is going to set me back a fair bit, again.
My last trip, as you will know, was to Taranto. The European trip before that was to North Portugal, via Caen and Marin, coming into Europe at Zeebrugge. I reloaded out of Madrid on that job. In between Iāve been touring the outskirts of Dublin, (multi-dropping windows ) and other more and less salubrious parts of the UK mainland.
I am seriously considering buying a laptop. Nothing fancy, I think a 1.6 to 2 GHz processor with a 20 Gig HDD and a DVD player. Put a good map on it which I can update as needed. I could use it to watch videos and play games. Keep my paperwork up to date on, keep a more extensive diary and possibly even get on the net on the odd occasion. I donāt think I need a GPS system, just the usual services available on any mapping system, like route finding, the ability to remember flagged points and accept plugins like the low bridge one that someone on here has made up.
a lot of the guys i was running with at stagetruck have got lap tops running autoroute with gps senders attached.
they all say they are brilliant and well worth the expense.
chris
I have just recently bought a GPS receiver for my laptop and use it with Auto Route. I found a drop recently, which didnāt show up in the data base, just by entering the post code and then setting the route. Follow the green route line and āhey prestoā there was the drop. Auto Route does not have voice activation but I intend to buy Infomap Navigator GB soon and that does have voice activation. They also do a Europe version. I donāt take any a-zās to work now, just the GPS and computer.
I intend to buy Infomap Navigator GB soon and that does have voice activation. They also do a Europe version.
regards
westie
I bought the Infomap European version but could not get on with the menu system plus you could not plan a route across Europe but only country to country. It also kept trying to take me off at junctions to rejoin it at the other side. It has a LONG way to go to beat Autoroute. I have just bought but not had a chance to install Route 66 2005 (see earlier post) but it does not have voice directions.
) and other more and less salubrious parts of the UK mainland.