On 2008-06-02 21:23:07 +0100, Colin Wilson
<REMOVEEVERYTHINGBUTnewsgroup@phoenixbbsZEROSPAM.c o.uk> said:

> I've been asked if I can find out if anyone has decent maps for
> southern ireland / irish republic, i.e. TomTom
>
> Has anyone got experience on the detail level ?
>
> I was under the impression they were all very patchy, but this might
> have changed over the last couple of years...

TeleAtlas's Eire map coverage is very much better now that it was, just
taken a look at the latest release and coverage to my untrained eye
looks pretty comprehensive.

Is there anywhere in particular I can check for you to demonstrate detail?
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> TeleAtlas's Eire map coverage is very much better now that it was, just
> taken a look at the latest release and coverage to my untrained eye
> looks pretty comprehensive.

Thanks - i'll probably steer the buyer towards TomTom then (i'd
already hinted their way, given that I own garminsuck.com - a protest
about how they treated me as a customer with, at the time, one of the
most expensive models they sold)

> Is there anywhere in particular I can check for you to demonstrate detail?

There isn't i'm afraid, but I shall endeavor to find out !

My brother uses NAVIGON in the Republic of Ireland with good
success. The main problem is they don't have postcodes outside of
Dublin


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> My brother uses NAVIGON in the Republic of Ireland with good
> success.

Thanks - i've never heard of FreshMaps though, are they based on one
of the "known" map systems, i.e. TeleAtlas / Navteq ?

> The main problem is they don't have postcodes outside of
> Dublin

Never knew that !

> I have used Garmin and CoPilot on my mobile phone.
> The CoPilot gave the best results, but to use it you had to know where it is
> that you want to get to.
> Both were very poor for finding street addresses directly, but with the
> CoPilot if you have rough idea of where you want to go you can look at the
> CoPilot's map and pin point your destination, then it can plan the route for
> you.
> My friend with a TomTom did not have any better results.

Thanks - i've got TomTom on a PDA, and that can get you to a position
on the map if necessary (in fact, I used it earlier tonight for a
relatives' house)

On Tue, 03 Jun 2008 22:14:16 GMT, wibblegt ()
wrote:

>My brother uses NAVIGON in the Republic of Ireland with good
>success. The main problem is they don't have postcodes outside of
>Dublin

They don't have post codes in Dublin either - you're referring to
district numbers like Dublin 4 (Cork has these too but they're never
used). True *public* post codes are rumoured to come in but the postal
types don't want or need them, the time they would have been useful is
long gone due to technology.

Recommendations for maps: from personal experience the latest
Garmin/Navteq beats Tomtom still, especially for the towns outside the
big 5 of Dublin/Cork/Galway/Limerick/Waterford. Neither service is as
complete as for other countries: it's silly that dirt tracks in Norway
are better detailed than some main roads in Ireland (NornIrn is still
better detailed).
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