Thursday, June 3, 2004
Huge CoPilot Live GPS Software Review at TekGuru
Posted by Pat Logsdon in "ARTICLE" @ 12:00 PM
"The final part of the CoPilot Live Pocket PC 4 (CPL) review will briefly investigate the PC software which accompanies the Pocket PC part of the package, and will highlight the 'Live' aspect of the system. The PC software acts as both a combination route planner and an interface for the Pocket PC environment where routes and maps may be created and custom POI data incorporated for download to the PPC system. The Live environment includes such features as Point Of Interest (POI) tracking and communication between the PC and the Pocket PC while out on the road.
The PC Base station could at any time decide to send a 'Trip Itinerary Update' to the driver, to do this they would click the 'New Trip' button on the toolbar and create a trip itinerary in the Trip Planner window just as in Planning Mode. Once the journey change has been mapped out the Send button is clicked to send the re-route instruction to the driver."
TekGuru has just finished a review of CoPilot Live 4. This last section covers the "Live" aspect, and it's a pretty interesting read. Apparently the software on the Pocket PC can communicate with a "base station" PC via a GPRS connection, which allows for messaging, "pushing" POI and trip/route data, and tracking of the car via the base station.
I've always shied away from CoPilot due to the steep price (I'm a Routis/iGuidance man myself), but this kind of functionality seems like it might be worth the extra cash. Does anyone here use CoPilot? How reliable is the "Live" aspect? How does the actual routing portion of the software compare to something like Mapopolis or iGuidance?
The PC Base station could at any time decide to send a 'Trip Itinerary Update' to the driver, to do this they would click the 'New Trip' button on the toolbar and create a trip itinerary in the Trip Planner window just as in Planning Mode. Once the journey change has been mapped out the Send button is clicked to send the re-route instruction to the driver."
TekGuru has just finished a review of CoPilot Live 4. This last section covers the "Live" aspect, and it's a pretty interesting read. Apparently the software on the Pocket PC can communicate with a "base station" PC via a GPRS connection, which allows for messaging, "pushing" POI and trip/route data, and tracking of the car via the base station.
I've always shied away from CoPilot due to the steep price (I'm a Routis/iGuidance man myself), but this kind of functionality seems like it might be worth the extra cash. Does anyone here use CoPilot? How reliable is the "Live" aspect? How does the actual routing portion of the software compare to something like Mapopolis or iGuidance?
