Maybe instead of just saying that is has a hideous UI, explain why. I dunno.![]()
Yep.I wish Apple had partnered with Garmin instead of Tom Tom.
Yep.I'd rather have a perceived ugly UI than maps that have a high number of errors. UIs can be fixed easier than apple can fix their map issues.
Garmin have good maps - if apple fans can only criticise a GUI then that's pretty lame. Flyover on apple maps is a gimic.
Street maps is far more useful but apple don't have access to that so flyover is their response.
Yep.Garmin's maps are indeed better than TomTom's and Apple's (at least right now).
The Garmin UI is more in line with a turn-by-turn GPS navigation app, with data points like distance remaining, time remaining, and ETA. There is also lane guidance (the image on the right shows the right two lanes as the correct lanes to be in).
Apple's UI does not currently offer lane guidance, nor does Waze.
Hopefully, Garmin will update their StreetPilot onDemand app with Google Street View and Urban Guidance.
Yep.Garmin's map data is superior. Period.
Their addresses and POIs are more accurate. They peg my house dead on. TomTom puts my house a quarter of a mile down ths street.
I wish Apple had partnered with Garmin instead of Tom Tom.
I have Navigon (which is now owned by Garmin!) and I wonder how this app compares. Anyone try both?
Garmin's map data is superior. Period.
Their addresses and POIs are more accurate. They peg my house dead on. TomTom puts my house a quarter of a mile down ths street.
USA version 'regularly' $49.99?
A quick look at appshopper shows that the price of that app is up and down more often than <insert euphemism>.
Think I'll wait until it's $25 again.
Map app debate aside, why in the name of Zeus is the map for the entire USA, much cheaper than map for the UK and IRELAND? effort to cost ratio just dosent make sense???
Are you talking about the Apple maps, apparently provided by TT? Because it sounds like they are not as good as the native TT maps in their own devices/apps. I find both "real" Garmin and TT maps to be very similar.Garmin's maps are indeed better than TomTom's and Apple's (at least right now).
I use gps for work, and I can tell you neither is a winner on this. One house accuracy does not make. When I have to find 15 locations in an evening, both are imperfect, I assure you.Garmin's map data is superior. Period.
Their addresses and POIs are more accurate. They peg my house dead on. TomTom puts my house a quarter of a mile down ths street.
I prefer the ugly colors to the all-the-same-color-group-with-slightly-varying-tint schemes. The contrast stands out, it's not good to have to stare at your gps while driving to make sure you are seeing the proper shade of blue. Aren't there various color schemes to choose, anyway?All you have to so is use your eyes to see how ugly it is. Geez
Been a TomTom user for a long time. Overall TomTom is a very good app. I never really used Garmin. One thing I been mentioning to Apple and TomTom for a long time which I believe is still not possible is audio routing. Would be nice to be able to have the navigation app stream the audio to your bluetooth A2DP headset while you are running Pandora and streaming that audio through the headset port to the car speakers. Anybody else want this functionality? Lets ask Apple and the Navigation app vendors to get it done, it should be doable.
-Mike
Garmin's map data is superior. Period.
Their addresses and POIs are more accurate. They peg my house dead on. TomTom puts my house a quarter of a mile down ths street.
This is basic software economics. The cost of development can be amortized over many more buyers in the USA. So yes, the cost per buyer is much lower.
The running watch took so long to log on to satellites that I sometimes had to stand around for 15 minutes before I could begin my run. Eventually I got so angry at it that I just smashed this piece of **** on the ground.
Benefit of the garmin app is that you have the map downloaded on your phone. At ~1.6GB it is sizable and not cheap, but when I went to Canada I did wish I had it. Data roaming charges are not nice.
and i may be weird, but i do like the simple no clutter UI of Garmin.
Garmin's map data is superior. Period.
Their addresses and POIs are more accurate. They peg my house dead on. TomTom puts my house a quarter of a mile down ths street.