GPS in Lebanon

[Mar1K]

Originally Posted by Sirius

Yeah from what I heard, these maps rely on points of interest and show you how to get there... I highly doubt they relied on street names or numbers lol... It is more like you wanna go to a bank in beirut for example, the gps unit wud lock in your position and trace the shortest route to your destination... the bank would be found as a place of interest rather than an address.

Hmmmmm... so what you mean, without a new civilized urban planning we will not have accurate maps ?

[Danny Z]

Anything for Garmin? even home made?

[SeekNirvana]

Originally Posted by Sirius

Yeah from what I heard, these maps rely on points of interest and show you how to get there...

Oh! So you can't specify the following on the GPS:

Furn El Chebbak, el sheri3 el ra2isseh, ba3d Sandwichet Abou Coco, teneh mafra2 3al shmel, fi bal7a bi nos el tari2, bas to2ta3a, s2al min maken 3an Fadi "Abu Gozo", bi dellak.

[Venom]

Originally Posted by SeekNirvana

Oh! So you can't specify the following on the GPS:

Furn El Chebbak, el sheri3 el ra2isseh, ba3d Sandwichet Abou Coco, teneh mafra2 3al shmel, fi bal7a bi nos el tari2, bas to2ta3a, s2al min maken 3an Fadi "Abu Gozo", bi dellak.

w haydeh iza dallak sa7...lol

[Mar1K]

Originally Posted by SeekNirvana

Oh! So you can't specify the following on the GPS:

Furn El Chebbak, el sheri3 el ra2isseh, ba3d Sandwichet Abou Coco, teneh mafra2 3al shmel, fi bal7a bi nos el tari2, bas to2ta3a, s2al min maken 3an Fadi "Abu Gozo", bi dellak.

Does it say the street name ?

[El]

check this out, it's available for Garmin tayyar.org

[Chief]

i contacted GIS developement, and here are what i got. Its only available on Garmin and the installation costs around 550$. If you already have a garmin, they can download the data for you at around 250$. As per the salesman, its very very accurate.

[Danny Z]

Originally Posted by Chief

i contacted GIS developement, and here are what i got. Its only available on Garmin and the installation costs around 550$. If you already have a garmin, they can download the data for you at around 250$. As per the salesman, its very very accurate.

too expensive, the whole europe on the Garmin SD card is 59$.

[arzleb]

Full maps and navigation systems are available for Lebanon:

1. Toot Toot
   
2. Orion

The Orion software is based on the NAVfone software and it cost 80$ for Symbian and 120 for WM.

[Mar1K]

Originally Posted by arzleb

Full maps and navigation systems are available for Lebanon:

1. Toot Toot
   
2. Orion

The Orion software is based on the NAVfone software and it cost 80$ for Symbian and 120 for WM.

Is Orion a turn by turn GPS or is it just maps?

Anymore info on Toot Toot ? sounds like a msabbeh on Tele Liban