Sunday, Jan 01, 2017 at 16:15
Hi
John,
Good choice!
Will come with everything you need for moving map display wherever you are traveling. OziExplorer, the app you run for "off road" travel is recognised by most ExplorOz folk as the best app and the included Hema Maps provide Nationwide coverage. With the addition of regional maps for specific areas, all is covered.
As an alternative, you can buy the ExplorOz OzTopo maps and load them on the Hema. I actually prefer the OzTopo Australia map to the Hema ones, but this is simply individual preference.
OziExplorer may need a learning curve for specific functions, but it works straight out of the box.
The Hema also comes with Street Navigation but because you can't run both apps simultaneously, I don't use the street navigation feature, preferring a separate device for this.
I run OziExplorer on the Hema while traveling, giving me a moving map display of where I am at any specific time and have enabled a daily autosave feature to keep as a series of tracks of our journey.
I also run a TomTom for street navigation and the latest high end model is excellent for planning routes from point A to B in most out of the way
places throughout Australia. This device is also great when traveling through, or around towns and cities.
TomTom also has an excellent pre-planning feature, something you can't do automatically with OziExplorer.
TomTom's MyDrive enables me to plan a route from point A to point B and provide me with distance and approximate time for the journey. This can then be downloaded to the device for use.
I included my
views on TomTom, mainly to highlight to you that the Hema can't do everything, but it is still a very good device for use when traveling and is excellent for showing on a moving map where you are.
Other folk may suggest alternatives for street navigation, but to me TomTom does much more. Since replacing my previous Garmin Nuvi with the TomTom Go 6100, I am very happy with its functionality.
I used it and the Online TomTom MyDrive app to plan a trip we are taking to the
Pilbara and
Kimberley regions beginning in April and it recognised
all places of interest along the
Gibb River Road. I plan the trip, broken up into daily
treks and record it on a spreadsheet covering the whole trip. This data provides achievable daily distances and fuel stop requirements, which is very handy to know. I can call up the day's route and TomTom will show the estimated arrival time at the destination. Hema will show me where I am but it doesn't have predictive capabilities to tell me how far and at what time I am expected to arrive.
PS. As I haven't used the Hema iGo Street Navigation app, I cannot tell you how good or bad it is (previous versions have been poor) but the fact you cannot run both Street Navigation and Off Road navigation apps at the same time, limit functionality. If you load the Street Navigation function for a specific purpose, you will interrupt and maybe lose tracking data of your trip.
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Follow Up By: john m85 - Sunday, Jan 01, 2017 at 16:33
Sunday, Jan 01, 2017 at 16:33
also looking at the hema hx1 think it has more information than the hn7
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