Is there a routeplanner that would work on a HTC VOX?

[Guest spangeman]

Hi All

Please excuse me if this question is not appropriate for this forum, I would be happy to post it somewhere else.

I have a HTC Vox (S710) and would like to install an offline route planner which would work in the same manner as AutoRoute for PC. The phone has Windows Mobile 6 Standard.

I can access the internet from the phone while at home using wifi so an online solution would be fine if it could be used offline once the maps have been downloaded.

Does such a thing exist?

Thanks

Spangeman

Edited December 27, 2007 by spangeman

[Guest Confucious]

Welcome to the forum.

Full route planning and GPS software is available such as CoPilot 7 but if you just want routplanning then google maps would work but I don't know if you can download the maps onto your phone, Which country are you in? Do you have an unlimited data plan? If so Google maps works fine.

[Guest mandt]

Whatever happened to MS Pocket Streets?

IIRC this could do what you require, and it was free too.

Maybe a determined Googler could find a copy

[Guest Confucious]

Don't have to be that determined ;-)

http://handheld.softpedia.com/get/Educatio...005-16788.shtml

But IIRC that didn't do routeplanning, just maps. Although it has been a long time since I used it so I could be wrong - I must admit I had forgotten all about it!

[Guest mandt]

Yeah it's been a while for me too, I thought it did route planning but perhaps not

looks like the link is for PPC though, I couldn't find a SP download anywhere

[Guest spangeman]

Welcome to the forum.

Full route planning and GPS software is available such as CoPilot 7 but if you just want routplanning then google maps would work but I don't know if you can download the maps onto your phone, Which country are you in? Do you have an unlimited data plan? If so Google maps works fine.

Thanks :( , I'm from the UK and do not unfortunately have an unlimited data plan, I can only access the web using wifi which is at home and at work. That's why I'd like to have an offline solution but am happy to download maps to the phone before going out into the wild world.

I have found a copy of Pocket Streets included with an old version of AutoRoute. That seems to be ok with viewing maps but like all other solutions I have seen so far you can't perform route planning on the phone.

It does not look like you can take the google maps offline. :D

Perhaps I am going about this all wrong, would it be better to purchase a GPS receiver for the phone? That way the phone could direct me while I drive and do all the routing using something like TomTom or CoPilot. If this is possible could you recommend a GPS receiver that would work with my phone and/or point me towards some links for reading up this subject.

Thank you both for your responses.

Spangeman

[Guest Confucious]

If you don't mind paying get CoPilot 7 and just about any BT receiver off ebay will work or CoPilot's own - it's a great solution!

Or just change to T-Mob and get unlimited data and use goofle maps for basic routing.

Edited December 29, 2007 by Confucious

[Guest spangeman]

This one seems to be reasonably priced, does anyone know of any reason why this would not work on my phone? (HTC vox S710)

http://www.amazon.co.uk/BlueNEXT-Bluetooth...1197&sr=8-2

Spangeman

[Guest Confucious]

That should be fine.

[Guest spangeman]

Thank you very much for your help.

[Guest]

Hi All

Please excuse me if this question is not appropriate for this forum, I would be happy to post it somewhere else.

I have a HTC Vox (S710) and would like to install an offline route planner which would work in the same manner as AutoRoute for PC. The phone has Windows Mobile 6 Standard.

I can access the internet from the phone while at home using wifi so an online solution would be fine if it could be used offline once the maps have been downloaded.

Does such a thing exist?

Thanks

Spangeman

Hi Spangeman,

Just want to let you know that on my HTC brand S710 Route 66 Navigator 7 WMS runs perfect offline (using a Route 66 BT GPS a.k.a. Holux GR-240).

Greetings from The Netherlands :-)

Bert

[Guest Confucious]

Any of the full GPS solutions work offline but Route 66 is not considered one of the better ones for the UK.

Google maps is free but does need a data connection.