Satellite Navigation (Merged)

feckoffcup

Could anyone here offer advice on sat nav systems for use in Northern Ireland. All of the websites I have seen are for over the water. I would hate to spend a load of money on a system and then realise that the Northern ireland maps are useless. I have a budget of around £500 and havent a clue where to start looking for one of these - dealers would probably charge a fortune, what about Dixons or Currys? Any help much appreciated.

Hunnymonster

The only one I've seen with anything like decent coverage of Ireland (North & Republic) is CoPilot 5 - and it's a pricey beast.... ask over at https://www.pocketgps.co.uk if that's changed significantly..... but all of the others covered the single digit roads, N&S of the border - so good to get from Belfast to Dublin, but hopeless to get to somewhere like Cookstown (example)

NDK49

Apparently those with 'Navtech' maps are best for Northern Ireland. Think Currys have an offer one that has those for £269.

aidsy

iam looking to buy a sat nav for my car,i travel all over the north can any1 advise, maplin r doing an offer on the Garmin i3 for 153.00 any ideas?

cheers aidsy

Holiday

aidsy wrote:

iam looking to buy a sat nav for my car,i travel all over the north can any1 advise, maplin r doing an offer on the Garmin i3 for 153.00 any ideas?

cheers aidsy

Loads of info in this thread.

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=135757&page=1&pp=40

raymond

I have Garmin Mapsource just over a year old and its totally useless outside of Belfast or Dublin. Most of the other software I have looked at is the same. The big names dont want to pay for mapping rights to sell to a very small customer base so they leave most of it out.

http://www.garmin.com/cartography/mapSource/MGEuro.jsp#map

City Navigator Europe v8 DVD looks a bit better

http://shop.garmin.com/cartography/mapsource/update/cd_update_details.asp?CD=010-10432-03

aidsy

thanks raymond....ive heard the same from others if true gps would not be good use to me as most of my travel is outside belfast any1 use tomtom or any1 got good reports on gps b4 i spend my money.

pob

Considering getting a GPS, but from what I've heard most in-car gps coverage for NI is ropey once you head outside Belfast.

Anyone know the GPS with the best maps for NI?

jetboy

navtec maps are good. just acquired route66. Lookin good so far but will report further!

pob

cheers, I've been hearing that about navteq maps - route 66 is for PDA and mobiles though. What are you running it on?

declanh

im also keen to hear views on this ... ideally i want street level for north and south ireland , all of uk , and perhaps europe too

the AA does one that claims to be street level for all of ireland but i read one review and it was fairly lukewarm