[gpspassion]

Ok, well let's revisit when v6 is out, Ive just spent an hour with the Auto-Update, not sure if I now have v6? I did see some weather module coming though! I believe I've given Alturion a fair chance like all the other sofware I test and I even started Alturion forums on the site almost two years ago, but unfortunately they've mostly been a place for people to voice bitter complaints :-(

Just one thing though, you mention the GPS reception of TomTom, that's got nothing to do with the actual software, the GPS receiver "does all the work" and the software simply uses the data that flows out of it, so a bad GPS (there aren't many) will be as problematic for any software, TomTom, Alurion, Navigon, etc... As far as snapping goes, the only two that really have problems in this respect are Destinator and MapSonic, but the recently released v2 fixes that for the latter.

[gpspassion]

Ok, well let's revisit when v6 is out, Ive just spent an hour with the Auto-Update, not sure if I now have v6? I did see some weather module coming though! I believe I've given Alturion a fair chance like all the other sofware I test and I even started Alturion forums on the site almost two years ago, but unfortunately they've mostly been a place for people to voice bitter complaints :-(

Just one thing though, you mention the GPS reception of TomTom, that's got nothing to do with the actual software, the GPS receiver "does all the work" and the software simply uses the data that flows out of it, so a bad GPS (there aren't many) will be as problematic for any software, TomTom, Alurion, Navigon, etc... As far as snapping goes, the only two that really have problems in this respect are Destinator and MapSonic, but the recently released v2 fixes that for the latter.

[oVan]

I did not mention bad gps reception for TT, I meant: whenever you have bad reception with your receiver, and you're driving in an area where a lot of roads are close to each other (=in the centre of a city), you have the chance of TT snapping to wrong roads. That's what I read in the TT forums, mentioned by a lot of TT owners.

Btw, every forum for every gps software is almost always a place to complain.

:wink:

[gpspassion]

Ah ok, from my experience, I haven't seen this to be a problem with TomTom particularly, maybe a bit more with D3 or MSv1.3, doesn't sound like you've experienced it yourself?

On forums, yes and no, fortunately we do manage to have constructive discussions most of the time ;-)

Good news is that I'm at 50% of the 250Mb download and it is v6 coming through it seems!

[Peseta]

Probably because it's software solely used in Europe, and this site is more oriented west of the Atlantic, the discussion seems to be limited to a few persons.

I hope Alturion maps for the USA will come available, because in my view it's a valid alternative for carnavigation .

I've used Alturion, TomTom, Mapsonic, Destinator and Navigon and actually still like Alturion best overall, even though I've stopped using it because too many support issues at the time (f.i. lack of backwards compatibility of maps).

I especially liked:

the combination of PPC and desktop software. This way you can calculate very long routes on your desktop and export the to your PPC. Try to calculate a route of more than 1000 km on your PPC (which I've done with Alturion a few times).

Total freedom with extracting parts of maps and combining them on your PPC. Otherwise a trip from The Netherlands (where I live) to the south of France would need more than 500 MB of storage for maps. Now I could do with about 130 MB with enough "map real-estate" to take alternative routes.

With this comes routing without switching maps at borders. This is in my view a major issue, because only this way you have real door to door routing through several countries (an example was a skiing holiday in the north of Italy, traveling through 5 countries).



Alturion certainly isn't perfect, however none is at this time.
For daily use I think the interface is good (since v5). Only certain settings are not always logical and hard to select when driving. However many of those advanced settings aren't available on other solutions and actually settings shouldn't be changed while driving because of safety.