Very cool navigation software

Submitted: Sunday, Jan 06, 2008 at 09:59
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Hi all
I know that a number of you are running computers in you car these days so I thought this may be of interest.

I came accros an application called Centrafuse and really love it.

It does the following:
Turn by Turn navigation ( like Tom Tom navman etc)
MP3 player
plays DVDs DivX etc
Blue tooth mobile phone integration (displays SMS messages on the screen as they are recieved in you mobile phone etc)
OBD-ii engine diagnostics if you have the correct interface.
Integrated internet browser if you have mobile broadband
Weather updates (via internet)
Supports the following hardware if you have it
TV tuner
FM radio
Reversing camera


It is designed primarily to be used for touch screens with big buttons. I used this package on a trip to the Victorian High Country over the last week or so and it worked flawlessly. I loved it.

At this point I am only using the navigation and media player options and I used it to play music on the trip as I now have my laptop connected into my car stereo, because its an all in one package it does some cool things like mutes the music when it wants to give you intructions like "turn left 3km"

Obvioulsy the navigation was not much use once I got into the bush but thats where oziexplorer comes in, using xport I was able to run oziexplorer at the same time. When on the blacktop however the navigation software is excellent, it recalculates routes very quickly and I agreed with most of its decisions.

The full package is not cheap but the makers blame the company it buys its maps from. If you already have destinator software you can use those maps and its much cheaper.

I am quite impressed so far.

If you spend a bit of time in your car its quite useful.
Thaught some of you might be interested.
Cheers

PS the usual disclaimer, I am not affiliated with the company in any way blah blah
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