RE: [ot] Alternatives to AutoRoute?

["Jon Whiten" <jon@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

For this sort of thing I use:

www.multimap.co.uk	Click on "Directions"
www.mapquest.co.uk 	Click on "Driving Directions"

Also

www.mapblast.com but that seems to have gone all Microsoft.

HTH

J




-----Original Message-----
From: Stephen [mailto:yahoo@xxxxxxx]
Sent: Thursday, November 18, 2004 9:19 PM
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: [ukha_d] [ot] Alternatives to AutoRoute?


Hi,

What software do you recommend for route planning. A month or so ago I
looked at MS AutoRoute which people say is the best, but I was told:
1. Autoroute 2004 does not have up-to-date maps (e.g. no M6 toll opened in
2003) and 2. Autoroute 2005 will be out very shortly.

Well AR 2005 is out now and reading the reviews, they say that AR 2005 does
not have up-to-date maps (e.g. no M6 toll still!) and that there is not
much
difference between the 04 and 05 versions.

So, what can you recommend?

BTW, I have got TomTom but I find it takes me silly ways. The problem is
that since I use it on-the-fly, I don't know where it is taking me until
it's too late. I really ought to check its route before hand. I thought a
pc
based solution would give me a second opinion on the route, and allow me to
print out and check the route the night before, using a bigger screen than
that of an ipaq!

I understand that AR and others can be installed on a laptop and used with
a
gps, like TomTom. I think there are one or two that even give voice
directions... but if I knew which those were, I wouldn't be asking ;)