Re: Maps and Data
- From: black.hole@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Jon B)
- Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2008 10:22:27 +0100
Woody <usenet@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
David <davidjcleland@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 2008-07-12 17:56:17 +0100, usenet@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Woody) said:
David <davidjcleland@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Loving the GPS on the iPhone 2. Although I am worried about the cost.
The main place I will use this is Europe where we have a £1 a meg
roaming charge. How much data do you think google maps uses ?
The images are quite small but there are a lot of them. If you are
paying £1/meg I wouldn't even consider using it in europe. If you are
there for more than a week, it would be much cheaper to buy a GPS with
full european maps. Especially as the iPhone doesn't cache the maps.
I have 130Mb of maps currently cached on my nokia, which cover yeovil,
parts of london, parts of salisbury, parts of frome, and small parts of
bath at high res, the area around somerset at medium res, and the rest
of the country at low res.
That is sort of what I am thinking, although I went for the iPhone 2
for the GPS option...... it would be a total pain to end up buying one
as well. Tragic
having used many combined pieces of software that do something and a
GPS, a standalone GPS with all of the maps built-in wins every time.
The GPS in the iPhone is in my mind similar to the GPS in the Nokias. It
is nice to have occasionally when you want to know where you are, but if
you want a navigation system, get a tomtom (or whatever your favourite
standalone is)
One thing the Nokia does allow is to download the full set of maps for
any particular area. Unfortunately it needs the windoze utility, but it
does save you having to hammer the data/battery retrieving map updates.
The whole UK takes up about 400mb, but you can quickly delete a few maps
and put Europe (or anywhere else on there) on there if space is an
issue.
It does though more importantly, need tethering to a charger when using
the navigation function for any length of time.
--
Jon B
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