- Brand Name: Rayming
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iGuidance Navigation Software 2 - Rayming iGuidance intelligent GPS navigation software- Intelligent GPS Navigation software supports both laptops and pocket PC's for in-vehicle navigation. Provides real-time routing with turn-by-turn voice and visual prompts. Easily enter a destination or search by points of interest. Dynamic reroute and detour options. Nationwide coverage.- North American edition- Includes laptop, pocket PC, UMPC, and car PC versions- Dynamic reroute- Turn-by-turn directions- Voice and visual guidance- Detour and stopover options- Multiple waypoint itinerary- Geo-features and 3D views- NAVTEQ digital maps- Large menu buttonsRAYIGUIDE
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17 of 17 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Really useful improvement,
By Ronald "Wolfe" (CA, USA) - See all my reviews
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I bought a $170 Belkin Bluetooth GPS last year. The bundled software is quite useful but the map display is not detailed (doesn't include rivers, water bodies and parks) enough in compare with MS Pocket streets. It forced me to put both programs in my PDA. One day I cut into the website of iGuidance and found its user interface is almost the same as Belkin's. So I learned that Belkin's software is OEM from iGuidance (Rev 1.1?)The best of iGuidance: very clear voice guidance. It advises you about the next turn many times -- a few miles away, 2000 feet, and 200 feet (when you must turn right away). I once tried DeLorme, it told me only once -- many miles away and that's it! I only need my ears when driving with iGuidance. It's good for the safety of everybody. If I miss a turn, it will re-calculate new route and tell me what to do immediately. No panic. The improvement of iGuidance 2.1.2 over 1.1 The map details now rival that of MS pocket streets but w/o railroads. I think railroad is a useful landmark for location reference. The connection to Bluetooth GPS receiver is also improved. It takes much less "clicks" to hook up Bluetooth GPS now. The map data is updated. I can see newly built highway exit added. The map details of MS pocket streets are still the best. But the MS has two fatal shortcomings. 1. No Voice Guidance. Can you keep staring at the PDA display while driving? 2. It locks up from time to time. The MS program will freeze the PDA and you must reset the PDA to get it back. I've never experienced similar problem with iGuidance. The "points of interest search according to your current location" feature of iGuidance is also better than that of MS. What's bad about iGuidance? Lack of routing options. Doesn't support voice commands. In short, iGuidance is a no-frill but useful tool.
12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
iGuidance Version 2.1.2 for Pocket PC,
Overall this product is pretty amazing. But it's not perfect so that's why I gave it 4 stars instead of 5.The good: Set up was easy. Being able to put whole states on my pocket PC instead of picking regions out of the map is great. I don't have to piece meal my trip like with Microsoft Sreets. The maps are about 30 Meg to 80 Meg per state. But with 512 Meg sd cards going for less that $50 that's not a problem. The voice prompts are excellent. You can navigate almost any route with just the voice which is how it should be since you shouldn't be looking at the map while driving. In some cases when the roads get tricky it helps to look at the maps. For instance sometimes it will tell you to turn even though you're staying on the same road if other roads intersect at an angle and the road is turning. That's OK as long as you understand what it means. The display is clear and the automatic zooming when you get close to the turn is an excellent idea. I found myself doing that manually with Microsoft streets and trips just to get by. All the pertinent information you need while driving is there and easy to see, the name of the road for the next turn, its distance, and the direction of the turn. I like how it speaks the route number and direction when entering a highway. For example it will say something like, enter route 30 East on the left so that you can correlate the information with the available signs. Both the pocket pc and laptop version are included and operate identically which is cool. Learn one and you've learned both. Great idea. The bad: Some of the routes it calculates are not the quickest. I have Microsofts Streets and Trips 2005 as well, and while I think that product is inferior overall, it does appear to calculate routes a little better. It's also difficult with this product to influence the route by setting way points. You can only set one "stopover" as far as I can tell. So the way I use it is I set a stopover on the route I know is better so that it will pick that route. Then when you get to the stopover point you have to click a button to show the rest of the route. A little clunky. You should be able to set multiple points that it will route through to the final destination. It does allow you to pick detours to avoid specific routes, but when I tried that to influence the route, their directions got even worse. Then I tried to "detour" the second route it picked so that hopefully it would pick what I know is the better route, but instead it went back to the original route I detoured. It doesn't remember previous detours! How easy it would be to make this a much more useful program with just a little more thought and effort. I don't expect it to know the best route everywhere, but at least allow me to influence it. They do have various options for routing such as shortest and least amount of turns, avoid toll roads, etc. but these are not as useful as I might have thought. If you pick the shortest route, at least in my area, you end up on some roads that look like driveways. So this is not a viable alternative to influencing the route. Being able to record your trip is an excellent idea but they don't have any options for retrieving the data other than playing it back at the original speed. If you want to review a trip you'll have to sit through the whole thing. How hard would it have been to put a slider bar or fast forward on this? Another "almost" good idea. The demo feature allows you to preview your trip. But it also only goes at normal speed. What use is that other than to show your friends how cool it is? Keep trying guys, I'm sure you'll get it right eventually. The zoom feature could use some more controls on the PC. For instance, the mouse wheel should zoom. Or you should be able to draw a rectangle around an area to zoom to. Maybe Microsoft patented those ideas? Or that may make the PC and pocket PC version too different. The ugly: I didn't find anything really ugly about this. There are no blatent bugs that render some programs like Microsoft Sreets and Trips unuseable. But I'll speak of that in another review.
9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
good program can be improved,
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I have used Microsoft streets and trip, and then I bought this program. In some respect it is better and in other respects it is not. This program was designed for the stand alone gps system where as the Microsoft s&t is a general purpose program with lots of commands and options. The Map system is better in Microsoft, but the guidance system is better with Iguidance. It has 3d views, better voice and better user interface. All in all it is worth buying if you have a laptop or a pda and a gps receiver it gives you a cheaper way to solve your gps problems.I have used Pharos, Holux and Globalsat's Gps receiver. Of the three I like to Globalsats bt-253 the best. It does not lose signals whereas Pharos seems to lose the signals. It may be a little more accurate because of the number of satallites that it can get being a 20 channel one. As far as map accuracy and uptodateness of maps, I really don't know about areas other than mine. It seems to be very uptodate in the Sanfrancisco east bay area.
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