CoPilot GPS Sat-Nav & Traffic 4+

For planning not to travel

Others have commented that Copilot struggles to find addresses. I'd go further. With businesses seeking customers Copilot is missing an advertising trick and charging us money that ads revenue would dwarf and give us better data.

The planning of multiple stop journeys is very competent if clunky with too many steps to add a stop. The navigation is trumped by other packages. I found I was later arriving than colleagues on the same journey, making them wait for me. Saving trips doesn't use recognised file systems like one drive on my iPhone so I can't edit a day easily when it changes or share it with colleagues as I can with other navigation apps. That means being restricted to steps which they can't use. It's also hard to see actual speed and limits which are wrong too often. If the only improvement is to automate grabbing our money at renewal you're not listening.

If you are, you should merge with What3words and TomTom. I need lots of bits from all three to work most effectively.

It’s not quite TomTom but...

It’s not too far off. I purchased this app for use mainly with my 8 meter mobile caravan, it’s not too far away from the mark, but it could do with updating - - Benefits, It does give me the guidance relating to sizes and weights of my van, that guidance seems to cover the bases, I’ve experimented with it over the last month, and have not been caught out. - Problems The major inconvenience being it’s lack of smoothly prompting me re problems ahead, I hear about the traffic holdups on the radio, and then have to ask it to recalculate the route, at which point it tells me about any such holdups, it would be better if it simply told me as I travelled along. The symbols showing bridge heights, widths etc are very small when viewed on the maps, whilst driving, they need to be larger, so that they can be seen easily. The zoom feature, either zoom whole journey, or zoom to next junction, needs reviewing, why not offer a 3rd option, zoom to next junction with max zoom range to, say 10 miles; where the view ahead is still reasonable, (if your next junction is 80 miles away, it makes a very small scale map to view). - Is it worth it? Yes - it is very good value for money, it does what it says on the box, as they say; it is a little quirky, but it does the job. You do need to read the instructions to get the best out of it, but it is worth trying it...

Used to have the Caravan part

Having paid for a lifetime version which included a Caravan/Motorhome profile I was more than happy with Copilot. Ok any GPS system may give strange routing from time to time but you need to get into the habit of reviewing the route before the journey and change as necessary. THEN there was a major change....suddenly the Caravan/Motorhome profile disappeared and what was introduced was a subscription profile that allowed you to specific dimensions of the Caravan or Motorhome. I was more than happy with what I had paid for originally....ok I couldn’t enter my Motorhome dimensions but the suggested routing worked reasonably well.

So I complained and after numerous to and fro correspondence they gave me the new subscription based Caravan/Motorhome for free. Guess what, it lasted for a few months and then stupid me changed my email address and guess what the Caravan/Motorhome profile disappeared again. After contacting Copilot or Trimble (as is the current owner) again to get it back, and after proving they had given it back once already they refused to give it back and said I had to subscribe to it. The original version was perfectly adequate for my needs, the newer version may be better, but why do I have to pay again for something I have already paid for and was quite happy with. Trading Standards will be contacted, as this is surely not ethical....I will be taking this further....

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