Bumpkin
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I have this on my Android phone (Galaxy S4) and it works very well. Versions of Copilot are available for iPhone and WinMobile. Planning via PC not a problem, I use ITN Converter which produces the required .TRP files. However, this application spits out the v8 format, this works but Copilot seems to prefer the later v9. Route Converter will do the task of changing v8 to v9. I've yet to do further testing to find out the difference between these on the road.
Not sure what your software options on a Mac would be.
Route planning on the phone isn't too bad with an elastic band type route drag once you have your A-B initial route set up.
It will do the annoying TomTom thing of insisting on taking you back to a missed way-point ad infinitum until you pull over and cancel it out of the route. However, the tolerance of acceptance of passing through a point is fairly wide so this is only a problem if you don't actually travel the road that the point is on. This latitude can be a disadvantage as well though; I arranged to meet someone the other day with an onward route that doubled back from the meeting point that I had added as a way-point. At a roundabout about 100 metres before it just instructed me to go around and continue the route cancelling the way-point on it's own... I can only assume that the proximity of the way-point to this prior instruction meant that it assumed it has been visited as, up until the roundabout the point, and the route to it, was shown on the screen.
Voice commands work well through the phone's speaker as I've only used it in the car so far. I have no doubt this would work well on the bike. Someone I know has used Copilot on European tours and rates it highly.
Ultimate Addons do a decent weatherproof case, a power source and RAM mount would make this a viable and considerably cheaper option if you already have a smartphone.
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