Navigation software iGO 8.

G'day Phil,

I have been using IGO8 for years and personally think it is THE pick of the crop as far as in town navigating goes.

I'm sure you'll not be disappointed!

Phil,

I have also been using iGO8 for street navigation, I think its better than Tom Tom and the Garmin 760 street mapping.
I use Garmin Topo for off road, but I am often supprised that iGO8 also has quite a few tracks as well.

You won't regret it.

Hi Phil
There is a couple of sites that may be of interest to you.
Deal Extreme
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Cheers
Neil

I have the Techrificway version of Igo8 on a HP PDA. It is the only route finding software I have used, but find it easy to use.

It does not always find the routes I would use, and the maps are a little out of date (eg, does not have the new highway to Bunbury or the latest extension of the Northern Freeway). Having said that I would not hesitate to recommend it to you.

Thanks one and all.

great thing about Explore Oz there are alot of helpfull people out there.

Thanks again.

Cheers Phil.

Yes I've been using Igo for years too, works very well and as a previous poster said it is surprising how many tracks it has on it.

I brought one only recently, does all the street nav. I upgraded to a 4gb card and also run Ozexplorer on it, I have a few topo maps off the dividing ranges which are handy. Ozexplorer does not navigate for you, if you want to follow a route you place way points along the route and follow them. It is handy as it takes a lot of the mystery out of where you are. When you near a town and have an address you need to find just switch it to Igo and enter your address. I gave my son my Navman as this unit is able to run other programs and other maps, a mate is running the Hemma maps on his.

Do you have the ebay item number ??

guess there will always be one to dissent..in this case me

I have a Garmin nuvi on the windscreen and have always been very happy with its city navigayion.......makes sensible route choice and the ETQ is spot on

I have IGo on an indash in the cruiser and it is very second rate as far as city nav goes........in fact I hate it....if I had never had the portable Garmin then I would probably think it ok...it has some nice on screen features but what matters is being accurate and functional

for example its ETA is out consistently by up to 50%
coming from Kalgoorlie to Merredin the other day (navigating to Perth just for the hell of it)...east of Merriden it wanted me to turn north onto a gravel road about 10km out of Merredin..luckily I was a local and ignored it...and it then recalculated and wanted me to stay on my target

Another time between Manjimup and Walpole (navigating to the town center) it wanted me turn left (east) down a small side road which would have taken me god knows where

I have numerours examples where in the city it makes stupid navigation suggestions when using side by side with the Garmin it is a comedy except I no longer laugh

Still trying to work out how I can get the Garmin software onto my system and still retain the OziExplorer

I wouldnt give you the time of day for IGO

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I bought 5" unit off ebay running IGO8 and the software is so much better than TomTom.

But it seems every roadmap database has stupid errors in it.