Street Routing allows you to have street maps of the location you are in, and allow you to route from your current location to a destination, and to allow you to plot routes and avoid road blocks.

This is the first in a series of articles that examines the intricacies of creating and maintaining digital maps by TomTom. This article looks at the Map Geometry, how the roads are discovered and the ...

TomTom's NAV3 devices that use the MyTomTom website to manage their cnotent (e.g. GO 1000, GO 1005, VIA Live etc) are able to use custom splash screens. These can be shown when the device is starting ...

As you may already be aware, TomTom recently simplified the process of allocating custom sounds to POI alerts by adding full support for .ogg format sound files. Using a sound file in the .ogg format, ...

The Fortuna Pocket Track is a Compact Flash Type I GPS Receiver which means it will fit in all Compact Flash slots including slots in older devices like Windows CE 2.11 and 3.0 devices like the Casio ...

A new trend is to produce SatNav software for mobile phones. This started with Wayfinder using a download service, but has grown over the last 18 months and the variety of software available rivals ...

TomTom Maps-on-Line is a service that brings up-to-date maps, driving instructions and local information straight to your Pocket PC while you're on the move. TomTom Maps-on-Line is a wireless mapping ...

Semsons.com have asked us to review the new version 4.0 of Odyssey Mobile. Since we didn't know the old version (was there ever one?) or the program itself for that matter, and we are always on the ...

Looking for the best SatNav Hardware? We have spent the last few years watching the SatNav market and have reviewed the hardware as it is released to the retailers (sometimes we are lucky and get a ...

As there are often quite large differences between the systems provided for Europe and for the USA we have split the Street Routing group into two with our USA reviews having their own section. SatNav ...

Back in December 2008 we reported that Egyptian Telecomm's rulings did not allow for consumer GPS and hence there was no GPS for the Egyptian iPhone (as well as other phones). The ban is now being ...

From absolute beginners to SatNav experts we have a series of articles aimed at helping you. Starting from the basics of what is SatNav technology, and how to select a GPS system through to detailed ...