Description
Sygic Mobile Maps is the most complete turn-by-turn, voice guided navigation software for your iPhone.
All maps from Tele Atlas are with you on your phone.
Speed camera crowd-sourcing protects your wallet.
Warnings on speed limits and railway crossings care for the safety of you and others.
Signposts that help you to head in the right direction.
Automatically adapts to horizontal or vertical view.
Automatically or manually adjustable color schemes for day and night use.
User interface and voice guide speak your native language.
Pinch-to-zoom the map, scroll naturally through menus and use iPhone-like keyboard.
Control music and radio while navigating.
Search for millions of restaurants and other points of interest, with an option to call in, find parking, and navigate to.
Design your trip with multi-stop route planning before you head out.
See the summary of your trip before you set off.
Avoid a roadblock with a single click.
Save and organize favorites according to your needs.
Customize what you want to see on the navigation screen.
The application does not require Internet connection to operate. However, Internet connection adds a lot of value to the application by enabling the user to report speed traps and incidents to the community and also to receive real-time updates of recently reported traps and incidents.
Maps included: Andorra, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Gibraltar, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Monaco, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, San Marino, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom, Vatican City State.
Transit roads only: Albania, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Macedonia, Moldova, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia, Ukraine.
We are very focused on implementing your suggestions. However, iTunes reviews are unfortunately in most cases too short on information for us to be able to take any action. Please use the feedback form on sygic.com/iphone to report issues or suggest features. We may get back to you and ask for more details regarding your request. Thank you for contributing to Mobile Maps.
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Sygic Mobile Maps is the most complete turn-by-turn, voice guided navigation software.
Sygic. We listen.
What's New In Version 8.0.2
- SCDB speed cameras update – FREE of charge
- Added Croatian instruction voice
Customer Reviews
Potentially a great app - but needs improvement to get there - Especially Accuracy!
I tested this application in Sygic's own backyard on a trip from Budapest, Hungary to the hilly countryside in the east of Slovakia. (Sygic is a Slovakian company).
iPhone 3GS 32 GB
OS 3.0.1
Sygic Mobile Maps Europe v. 7.71.1
The application is quite quick to start; getting to the map screen in less than 10 seconds. Depending on location, it was generally quick to obtain its initial GPS signal as well. However, there were several times that the signal was lost on the trip; some understandable: in steep heavily forested valleys, but there were other times when the loss of signal was unexplainable: driving on relatively straight roads through meadows. Sygic claims to be improving the GPS lock in their next version, I hope this will improve the sometimes unreliable performance.
One great feature that Sygic has is a GPS signal strength indicator. It is much more helpful than the red bar in Navigon, or pretty much nothing in TomTom.
Navigating the application was a little counter intuitive on the iPhone. Normal iPhone conventions of flicking, pinching etc. don't work, instead replaced with scrollbars on the right side of the app screens. While they do work, "normal" iPhone conventions would be more consistent. Sygic claims to be improving the scrolling in their upcoming version. Though they make no specific reference to being able to pinch to zoom, or double-tap to zoom on the map screens. You must use a scrollbar on the right to zoom in and out there as well. While not difficult, it did feel slightly awkward.
In general the maps had quite good coverage, especially in Slovakia. It really is a European map-set - not just western Europe (looking at you TomTom), so is usable across the continent. However, in Hungary, once outside of the big cities and villages, there were a few smaller roads that were not on the maps. Along the Hungarian highways some of the gas stations were missing as well. I would also like to see more "tourist attractions" on the POI lists. I wanted to go to several caves in eastern Slovakia, but they weren't in the POI. I had to use a paper map to locate them, then put them into the Sygic app.
In most cases adding waypoints and destinations was easy and generated good routing. However, there were a few times when the route generated from two points (a starting location, and a finishing destination - nothing fancy) either planned a route that initially sent sent you in the opposite direction, then made a u-turn and came back exactly the same way, or in one case it literally planned a route that went 20km off course to a town not on the itinerary, then back, taking a very, very "scenic" route to the destination.
Once a route has been planned and navigation started, things get... a little unreliable. When you are driving along on an open road through the country at speed, things generally work well; your position on the map is updated well (though it must be noted here that it seems to always be 5-10 seconds (up to 100 meters) behind where you actually are), the location indicator shows you on the correct road, and the voice-guided instructions are loud and clear - things are generally happy.
Problems came when the speed of the car was less than ~50 kph. It seemed that below that speed the app sometimes had a hard time discerning whether or not the car was actually moving. Several times in slower traffic my location would not change after I had made a turn from one street on to another, drove ~100 meters, and turned on another street. It would eventually get back in sync, but lags like that are not good.
Also, a major problem - the most annoying issue I experienced with the application as a whole - was it just didn't seem accurate enough - accurate enough to find its *exact* location. There were numerous times when driving through cities, villages, and around switch-backing roads that my location would change from the road that I was on, to a parallel side street. This created an amazing amount of confusion because the route would recalculate (to its credit, or in this case; detriment, it recalculates very quickly), and the directions would change with the voice-guided instructions saying turn left or right, when I wasn't supposed to. This happened so often that at one point I had to quit the application and just use a real paper map (the horror!). On switch backs, it would start out ok, but at some point it almost always would end up showing me on one of the other areas of the road, going the wrong direction. The map would swing around wildly, with my location randomly being changed on the road, until the switchbacks were over, then it would eventually recover and find its place again. I would say that this inaccuracy is ~ +/- 100 meters - which just isn't good enough for this type of navigation. This really needs to be improved.
I also tried the app while walking in the city. While it was ok, and got me to my destination fine, it suffered the same problem noted above because of slow speed and/or lack of accuracy. The app would update, but only after I had traveled half a block or so. And the speed indicator never read above 0 kph.
As a whole, Sygic Mobile Maps Europe has the potential to be a great application - with its full Europe coverage, good maps, and relatively reliable routing - but for me it was severely let down by its lack of accuracy, and its sometimes unreliable GPS signal retention. Hopefully further updates will cure these issues, but for now, if you do purchase this app - have a paper map with you.
Awful!!!
Terrible navigation app. Tells me to make left turns on roundabouts (I live in Spain...), u-turns on highways, very confusing graphics at times, slow route recalculation. Highly disappointed!
More Work Still Needed
I am using the EU version in UK. More refinement is till needed. The voice guide fails to resolve multiple junctions like one near the Dartford Brigde Crossing on A406. Sometimes you have to decide for the GPS. At times the GPS assigns a wrong route number, but when that happens, just follow the lead route. On average the function takes you to your direction and better than the default iphone GPS maps. Today this GPS function worked perfectly where the iPhone SP signal was zero. Very good.
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$64.99
- Category: Navigation
- Updated:Mar 12, 2010
- Current Version:8.0.2
- 8.0.2
- 1.83 GB
- Language:English
- Seller:Sygic
- © 2010 Sygic a.s.
Requirements:Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. Requires iPhone OS 3.0 or later.
