Talk Morgan Forums Community Vehicle Talk (non-Morgan) open cars and navigation computers?

I bought the suction-cup mount for the car wind screen for my smartphone as I plan on using google maps/navigation in my 3 wheeler. Since my phone is a couple generations old I got the whole car setup with charger and all for $8 on amazon.com.

Pictures as promised, not the best though.






And with the iphone you can have TM on the move.

Interesting and helpful post, to clarify (and As Alistair implies) The two phones mentioned are Android devices and Tom Ton is currently not available for them, - it has been promised "This Summer" still waiting, so I will be using Co-Pilot on my 6 week Spanish Jaunt next week.

Sygic have a very good system that stores the maps for offline use, is not expensive, and you can load a 14 day free trial.

Link http://www.sygic.com/en

From my playing around with Google Maps (3 yr old Android device), it is improving all of the time and nothing is as accurate - jespecially for free. You can now log on to the Google Maps web page using your computer (with your Gmail account if you have one) and map out your desired route, then you can highlight the route and save the map to your account. Then when you open the Google Map application on your phone and sync it with your Gmail account, your maps will be available under My Saved Maps. Great for planning scenic drive-focused trips.

I like being able to make my own routes using back roads, instead of the shortest, fastest type of routing that standard Navigation (satnav) units give you. Also, being able to choose said routes with the full function of a computer, mouse and keyboard make it much less frustrating than fat-fingering my way through the process on my phone.

Obviously the lack of weatherproofing on a phone is an inherent risk. But this option is far easier to upgrade in the future.

Hadn't thought of saving maps. Good tip.