Best Sat Nav devices for use in Poland

Ive always used Tom Tom that comes in standard when I rent a car from Europcar. Pretty decent in most urban areas I would say. It might let you down if u r looking for an obscure street in the outskirts.

My major problem with it is how to correctly key in "Aleja Jana Pawla", Warsaw.

As you may expect, there is about 6 of 7 "Jana Pawla" streets or whatever in Warsaw, and for some reason, I always end up in a backwater Jana pawla street 10 miles away from the center, instead of the big boulevard parallel to Marszalkowska.

PJ

TOTALLY ON THE MONEY,

dont buy a TT, or garmin as they aint any use here, buy a polish one when your here, they have a huge range now, I have seen about 20 models available, but what I have to go and check for you is whether they come in english..gimme an hour and ill go to the shop and check, its about 15 metres from my home so no worries lol..

peace
Ally

Krakow, are you on crack?

Its not the model that counts but the map inside. I see no reason why would TT or Garmin buy a low quality map when a higher quality map is available out there.

PJ

I see Garmins, TomToms and all the other brands in the adverts all the time with Polish menu and 37 EU countries listed as features. I have played with a few at Saturn and they seem to have everything you would need. I can only imagine that 'maybe' if you bought 'some' of them outside of PL the language might not be in there but some models for sure have many language options.

Hi Paris, i came here to be friendly, if your little ****head of a brain might realise that you rather immature, one liner might be taken as offensive. then I DO ADVISE you to think a bit before you chuck out a comment like that.

rozumiem!

Oh and incidentally, IT is the software, AND the MAPS that make a good GPS SYSTEM.

It aint got **** all to do with your opinion of "models" what do you know?

Its to do with the "model" of software AND the MAp coverage .........Nokia use teleAtlas, for example , who have a more detailed map of Poland , than TT,

I have used both , and I KNOW from personal experience that its to do with the MODEL software....AND the coverage of the MAP.....read up on GPS , ALL TT. Garmin, Nokia. Sony,Panasonic, etc use different software , AND different maps in each model you clown, and they ALL have different percentage coverage of Poland.

cya

You cannot beat Automapa and I have been using it all over Poland and with the updates it has been 100% and I haven't driven into any lakes yet ;0)

Garmin and Tomtom are good but they don't have the same updated data as Automapa.

very true,

either an Automapa or TeleAtlas map are the best covered maps in a GPS system for Poland specifically,

for example here is the specs for Tom Tom navigator 6 in regarding Eastern europe

-Poland (34%)
- Czech Republic (99%)
- Hungary (40%)
- Slovakia (16%)

..........not very clever huh

Fair enough.

Somebody should tell Europcar, and the other car rental companies in the airport, to switch to one of those then.

PJ

The figure you quote is for just one device (navigator 6), other tomtom devices quote higher figures 99.9%

wasnt this the whole point of the topic,

as to which device is best for Poland?

sorry i aint got time to review/compare all GPS systems on the market, but if you have the time feel free

and th eTT 6 navigator is still for sale ..so it is a possible buy,although not a good one

I got a fairly old TomTom 720 with the central maps on covers well east and west europe very well. we are in a small village in the middle of nowhere and we are all good here, certainly as good as the east only map I also have and also got good speed camera coverage, if indeed the cameras are working......