Windows Phone Thoughts: Prairies to the Coast - A Ride With iGuidance 3.0

On the Points of Interest (PoI) Options screen, you can select which types of PoI’s will be shown on the map. While iGuidance provides a fairly good variety of Interesting things, I didn’t see any way to define your own PoI’s or display previously defined Favorites on the map.


Figure 16: The PoI Options screen.


Figure 17: Displaying Points of Interest on the Map.

iGuidance even includes an Almanac feature, providing sun and moon information for the current date.


Figure 18: Sunrise, Sunset...Sunrise, Sunset (think “Fiddler on the Roof”).

There’s also a 3-trip computer available to track distances and speed.


Figure 19: iGuidance’s Trip Computer.

Conclusions
iGuidance is definitely one of the better navigation packages around and iNav shows their experience in the marketplace with the capabilities and interface built into version 3.0. The maps from NavTeq are very good and provide accurate tracking and navigation along the ‘normal’ roads. I wish, however, that either NavTeq or iNav would provide more off-road data, such as trailways (for bicyclists), coastline (for mariners), and mall-entrances, etc. (for the rest of us) to make it more usable when we’re not in a vehicle.

Don is an Associate Director with Fujitsu Consulting and a member of its Enterprise Mobility Community. Currently, he is working away from home, which gives him ample opportunities to get lost in unfamiliar cities!