ALK Pocket CoPilot Live 4.5
CoPilot 4.5 was my first GPS/Navigation application. It started with an old iPAQ that I was given at work and a GPS sleeve I found on eBay that came with the software.
Pros
- Custom map ranges
- Custom waypoints
- Custom waypoints can be grouped and labeled
- Several million waypoints inlucded
- Mostly intuitive
- Re-routing, re-calcing, adding stops and changing route on the fly
- Voice prompts
- POI prompts
- Highly visible, esily- readable 'driving' nav screen with changeable fields
- Screen changes near turns to show maps
- QuickStart option in case battery dies
- US Highway maps can be installed easily for country-wide nav in ~40MB
- Canada maps can be added for additional cost
- Desktop application makes it easier to set up complex trips before trasnferring to PDA
- Maps can have custom distances from start/end and a corridor of the entire trip
Cons
- PC-created routes must be re-created in downlaod dialog
- Custom waypoint groups cannot be separated when choosing
- Some of the PC interface, especially, is non-intuitive
- Addresses don't display fully
- Many addresses not found when trying to look up
- Intersection lookup nearly always fails
- Maps are well out of date now (this is an older version)
- Quite a lot of "Local Road" displays
- Quite a lot of "Turn around on..." navigation
- Voice prompts don't always work
- No way to show turn by turn directions
- POI prompts get really annoying at times
- Walking screen is awful, next to no information displayed
- Unable to input coordinates from the PDA
- No real geocaching support
- No world maps
- Crashes fairly regularly, once every 8 or so hours of use at least
- Expensive
Screen Shots
 CoPilot 4.5 About |
 CoPilot 4.5 CustomPlaces |
 CoPilot 4.5 DataDownload |
 CoPilot 4.5 DataDownloadMap |
 CoPilot 4.5 DataDownloadQSOptions |
 CoPilot 4.5 DataDownloadSelect |
 CoPilot 4.5 LandmarkReporting |
 CoPilot 4.5 Map.gif |
 CoPilot 4.5 MapSummary |
 CoPilot 4.5 TravPackPrint |
 CoPilot 4.5 TripDownload |
 CoPilot 4.5 TripPlanner |
 CoPilot 4.5 TripSummary |
Hardware
Current
- Dell Axim X50v PocketPC PDA
- DeLorme Earthmate BlueLogger BT GPSr
- Gomadic Window PDA Mount
Historical
- Compaq iPAQ H3900
- Navman GPS Sleeve