Map & Travel 2004 Europe Top Cities Lonely Planet Highlights for PDAs

A shame, as this package could have been a lot more useful very easily, in my opinion.


Good road map, but no visibility of tube and metro stations   July 11, 2004
A. Sangster (UK)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful

The software is great for zooming in and out of views of roads, and it is pretty good at routing as long as you have good address information. But it doesn't deliver what it says on the box - there aren't any details of tube/metro and most other stations, which is incredibly frustrating. You can't create a road route to or from metro stations, you can't use them as a reference point or check how close things are to them, you can't find your hotel and then work out how to get there on public transport. Having used it in London, Brussels and Paris I've found it is completely debilitating. I'm looking for alternatives. I've contacted the makers to check that I've not loaded something wrongly, but had no reply, and checked at a specialist mapping shop and they admit to apparent the gap in functionality and misleading packaging.


Great app' for getting around - software as you want it!   September 5, 2003
6 out of 7 found this review helpful

This program is so handy I now use it daily. I plan my route, all maps are in superb detail, and look great. I am travelling to London next month, and am looking forward to trying the London City Guide! Hoping for some more destinations....


GPS bug fixed - very good software   September 3, 2003
8 out of 8 found this review helpful

I had also have that mentioned GPS error. But the company was very responsive to that error and fixed it within hours. They do provide a hotfix and told me that this 'only' does affect cities west of the meridian line (it is really a bug they said ;-)): i.e. Dublin, London and Madrid. Now I have the the fixed version here and it works perfectly!

The software is great and looks beautiful. It is definitively the best mapping software that I ever used on my iPAQ. Very good UI!

As a person who is travelling a lot I am always in search for helpful software for my PocketPC. After testing the software I couldn't believe that this is true: seamless zooming from UK overview to London street level - no flips, no jerks! You have a small tool - a magnifying glass - that allows zooming onto any point in the map by simply move the glass to the point in the map.

The route planner is fine. It's not a sat-nav system but for finding your route in the city it is perfect: open up the context-sensitive-menu, select you start or destination and calculate the route. Again: when I first flew over the route line in the map I couldn't believe it. First you receive a complete list of waypoints, then one can switch to the map view and the program flies over the route like a bird and starts automatically at the first waypoint. Now you can follow the route step by step. As I used my GPS for locate my position I even could check if I do follow the route in the right direction - a kind of 'satellite navigation'.

Very nice for me as a traveler - but I am convinced every local would like this too - are the Lonely Planet highlights. I do not like hundreds of addresses about things I have to see or places I have to visit (this is always a little bit like a menu at a Chinese restaurant - I can never decide what I should order) The selection they are providing is very good and even for business lunchs etc. I have found the right picks in-between.