test drive: primo 405521 + TT Europe 2014.03 (+SCDB)
Sun Sep 28, 2014 10:23 pm
I am back from a week vacation which I spent partly driving around. I made a 2K km trip trough Germany using my Windows CE device (with my Android phone as a spare), on it Primo 9.6.13.4055212, diMKa diMkaWA_P171 GpsForum.W.480 skin, latest Europe TT maps and latest SCDB fixed and mobile speedcams.
The verdict:
1. Primo proved itself capable and very stable. I had some minor issues though, that could be related to the skin or a wrong setting. Nothing to worry about.
This Primo might be the best so far and will stay on my device as my main program.
2. The map(s). In short I found 4 map errors, except from a few (very few) wrong speed limits shown. One was a wrong colored road sign and the other three were all related to road works.
The first was a traffic diversion, which was a bit funny, because Primo first recalculated, then took the - known to TT ! - traffic diversion (in my scheme purple colored, normal route was red colored). This happened on the way up and the way down. Not a severe thing.
The second flaw was a very new road, a detour around a city, not known to the map yet. Logical, the construction was not completely ready. Funny in a way Primo wanting to recalculate the route when ever an existing road was crossed, driving "trough the field".
The third was worse, with a big detour. But not TT's fault either. A road construction or reconstruction as you want. A redirection on the other road side, then picking up the normal road just on a busy highway intersection in a very confusing way. I had to pick lanes first, which I could not due to the redirection on that other road side, ending up completely on the wrong lane on the intersection, taking the wrong highway.
After all, I don't blame TT for this.
The detail of the map impressed me. Every small road was there, the parkings next to the highway were covered..
Yet this.
I spent a week in a hotel/pension. The address was known in the database, the POI also. However, driving to the address did not bring me to the hotel but a few hundred meters away, driving to the POI was hot on the spot!. Also an however. Coming from one direction, I ended up on the driveway, coming from the other, the map told me twice to take the driveway too soon.
3. SCDB Speedcams. Hmmm. Not quite positive. To start with, I did not see many fixed cameras, not on the GPS, not on the road. No points to gain or loose. A big "BUT" however for the mobile cams. Strange that in a country where are no speed limits on parts of the highway, mobile speedcams are announced without speed (just a "mobile speedcam ahead") - what is the point when no speed limits?
however very often with the additional message "60 kms per hour" 
(or 80). As you may guess, sometimes the announcement of the limited speed was correct too.
Never the less, I did see no mobile cams either.
The verdict:
1. Primo proved itself capable and very stable. I had some minor issues though, that could be related to the skin or a wrong setting. Nothing to worry about.
This Primo might be the best so far and will stay on my device as my main program.
2. The map(s). In short I found 4 map errors, except from a few (very few) wrong speed limits shown. One was a wrong colored road sign and the other three were all related to road works.
The first was a traffic diversion, which was a bit funny, because Primo first recalculated, then took the - known to TT ! - traffic diversion (in my scheme purple colored, normal route was red colored). This happened on the way up and the way down. Not a severe thing.
The second flaw was a very new road, a detour around a city, not known to the map yet. Logical, the construction was not completely ready. Funny in a way Primo wanting to recalculate the route when ever an existing road was crossed, driving "trough the field".
The third was worse, with a big detour. But not TT's fault either. A road construction or reconstruction as you want. A redirection on the other road side, then picking up the normal road just on a busy highway intersection in a very confusing way. I had to pick lanes first, which I could not due to the redirection on that other road side, ending up completely on the wrong lane on the intersection, taking the wrong highway.
After all, I don't blame TT for this.
The detail of the map impressed me. Every small road was there, the parkings next to the highway were covered..
Yet this.
I spent a week in a hotel/pension. The address was known in the database, the POI also. However, driving to the address did not bring me to the hotel but a few hundred meters away, driving to the POI was hot on the spot!. Also an however. Coming from one direction, I ended up on the driveway, coming from the other, the map told me twice to take the driveway too soon.
3. SCDB Speedcams. Hmmm. Not quite positive. To start with, I did not see many fixed cameras, not on the GPS, not on the road. No points to gain or loose. A big "BUT" however for the mobile cams. Strange that in a country where are no speed limits on parts of the highway, mobile speedcams are announced without speed (just a "mobile speedcam ahead") - what is the point when no speed limits?
however very often with the additional message "60 kms per hour" (or 80). As you may guess, sometimes the announcement of the limited speed was correct too. Never the less, I did see no mobile cams either.