Around the World (Europe) in 80 (8) days with Mapopolis

[Guest Dr_StrangeTrick]

After my last attempt at creating a mega route with Mapopolis I wondered how far could you go.

Well here is the answer, from John O Grotes to Lands End Via Brussels, Copenhagen, Helsinki, Paris, Bonn, Rome, Olso, Madrid and Stockholm in one monster trip covering 9 countries and nearly 8000 miles :shock:

Hats off to Mapopolis, I have never seen a sat nav program manage anything like this let alone on a mobile phone :D and with 90Mb of maps.

TomTom cant do anything like this, Co-Pilot can manage Pan-European trips but I don't know if it can manage this much.

Move over TomTom their's a new king in town :lol:

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MonsterTrip.JPG

directions1.zip

[Guest blewer]

Dr_StrangeTrick

When I tried downloading this file my anti virus sortware kicked in. Mate check your PC

[Guest Dr_StrangeTrick]

Thanks, I ran a check yesterday morning and I am up to date with the available definitions. I saved the route as a doc file as I could not get an htm file to upload and if I copied and pasted the results it would be huge (29 A4 pages).

What virus did it report please :?:

[Guest blewer]

Didnt' really read it I just got out very quickly :lol:

Just tried again and it says: Malicious script detected

Maybe it's just my PC?

[Guest Dr_StrangeTrick]

Think I know whats happening, I have Adobe Acrobat pro installed and that embeds script into the normal.dot so any documents I create carry this script as well which is where your AV picked it up.

Sorry for the scare.

[Guest blewer]

Think I know whats happening, I have Adobe Acrobat pro installed and that embeds script into the normal.dot so any documents I create carry this script as well which is where your AV picked it up.

Sorry for the scare.

No probs, just wanted to let you know :lol:

[Guest barrybryce]

I like Mapopolis when on foot, but I find that for directions when driving in cities the accuracy is often a little out. (But maybe all progs are like that)

Delighted with my purchase though. (But not sure what I'd be saying if I'd bought the map of, say, the Isle of Eigg individually!. Moderately worse value than, perhaps, the London map!)

[Guest Dr_StrangeTrick]

Hi Barrybryce, I think think that this is a sign of the times.

I first started to use Mapopolis on my E100 with a serial GPS and that was exactly 1 second behind me.

But I now have a BT gps so I imagine that this has to calculate its position then 'beam' this to the phone. Whilst the beam itself is almost instant I assume that there must be some sort of handshake before and after the data is sent causing a slight delay in this coming through to Mapopolis etc and now I notice a bit more of a delay in my position being updated (same for TomTom).

Mapopolis has found every road I want (more than TomTom, see this post) and for £60 for all of Europe it cant be beaten on price. I have heard that some good stuff is going to be included in the release version so here's hoping.