Eber123
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Hello,
Only another 6x weeks to go before our trip to Scandinavia and the Balticum . Preparations are on their way and in hand.
Looking back to last years holiday I thought "wouldn't it be better to get a dedicated camper navigation system"?
We only used Google Maps so far. And to be fair, most of the time it worked well. But avoiding the French motorways it brought us to some small country roads which some of them I thought were just borderline acceptable.
As an alternative I searched for a Navigation Systems which were software based (Android mobile phone) and fully compatible with Android Auto, but obviously calculate the route based on the size of the camper.
It seems that there are not a lot out there. I thought Sygic would be the one, but I contact them, the camper version of their software will be compatible with Android Auto at the end of the year (the Sygic app for cars is already compatible with Android Auto).
Waze is good, but can't be configured for the campers size. OsmAnd seems to be good to, I even bought a license (was cheap), but I don't like it. TomTom's mobile phone software is no option, because it is only for cars (I tried the test version). Others like "CoPilot" are not compatible with Android Auto.
Because of that I thought I had to bite the bullet and invest into a dedicated Camper Navigation device. The obvious and most know devices are from Garmin and TomTom. So I watched a lot of reviews for those devices (TomTom GO Camper Max and Garmin Camper 795) . Both seems to be ok (Garmin a wee bit better). I believe now that the "TomTom GO Camper Max" might be the device going forward. As far as I see, here are the advantages of the TomTom:
After all that my question is, which dedicated Camper Navigation system (calculating the route based on the size of the camper) do you use?
Eberhard
Only another 6x weeks to go before our trip to Scandinavia and the Balticum . Preparations are on their way and in hand.
Looking back to last years holiday I thought "wouldn't it be better to get a dedicated camper navigation system"?
We only used Google Maps so far. And to be fair, most of the time it worked well. But avoiding the French motorways it brought us to some small country roads which some of them I thought were just borderline acceptable.
As an alternative I searched for a Navigation Systems which were software based (Android mobile phone) and fully compatible with Android Auto, but obviously calculate the route based on the size of the camper.
It seems that there are not a lot out there. I thought Sygic would be the one, but I contact them, the camper version of their software will be compatible with Android Auto at the end of the year (the Sygic app for cars is already compatible with Android Auto).
Waze is good, but can't be configured for the campers size. OsmAnd seems to be good to, I even bought a license (was cheap), but I don't like it. TomTom's mobile phone software is no option, because it is only for cars (I tried the test version). Others like "CoPilot" are not compatible with Android Auto.
Because of that I thought I had to bite the bullet and invest into a dedicated Camper Navigation device. The obvious and most know devices are from Garmin and TomTom. So I watched a lot of reviews for those devices (TomTom GO Camper Max and Garmin Camper 795) . Both seems to be ok (Garmin a wee bit better). I believe now that the "TomTom GO Camper Max" might be the device going forward. As far as I see, here are the advantages of the TomTom:
- Reviews are good to very good (again but not as good as the Garmin camper version)
- Routes can be generated on the computer webpage and downloaded to the device (I couldn't find this option for the Garmin)
- Live long maps updates
- Cost is a wee bit less than the Garmin equivalent
After all that my question is, which dedicated Camper Navigation system (calculating the route based on the size of the camper) do you use?
- Device or App?
- Android Auto compatible?
- Is there a webpage to plan and generate routes?
- How do you do your updates? If you have a dedicated navigation system, do you still have to run an App on the mobile phone in order to get updates (for instance traffic updates), or can you connect your system to the campers WiFi router (of course if you have on installed)?
- If it is a dedicated device, where have you installed it? Window or dashboard (maybe even found a way to use the mirror to hold the device)?
Eberhard