SatNav?

[NZCowboy]

Saw an add for Ndrive SatNav in the Ewasst paper 3 or 4 months ago, I think the shop was called Polymac, I have the phone number of the wholesaler.
I have just spoke the wholesaler and they are retailed in a number of places such as Virgin Mega store City Stars and On the Run.
They seem expensive starting from $1580us for 3.5 inch model. Maps are supplied by Telemap and cover most of the cities in Egypt and roads connecting them. You can buy maps for other countries from 50-100us.

[NZCowboy]

Just been doing some more searching and find that you can buy the 3.5inch model in the UK for 151GBP, with UK and Ireland maps, and you could just buy the Egypt maps. Seems the much better option.

[kevinthegulf]

There was a guy with a stall just outside the Egyptair duty free shop in city stars a week ago selling Satnavs for 1500LE, it looked quite nifty hiss english wasnt right cracking though so explanation etc left a bit to be desired,
I have recently downloaded a egypt map for my Garmin, its not official, as Garmin do not do egypt, cost $50, testing it out its pretty ok, just been on a job out of Ismailia, where coverage was weak, but most of Cairo shows up, however very limited testing so far so will not give verdict yet, on the way home tonight the voice directions were not too bad, but as with all Satnavs, they are not perfect.

[PoleDancer]

Thanks chaps. Very helpful stuff.

NZC - NDrive do indeed sell Egypt mapping, which was effectively what I was looking for (if only I'd found that before I left the UK, where buying a GPS is cheap and easy). It sounds like if I can find a Windows CE GPS somewhere then that might be the right solution.

Kevinthegulf - Your City Stars man could be just the guy I'm looking for. I may not get out there until I have a car though. I don't suppose he has a cousin in Maadi or Downtown? ;-)

[MaidenScotland]

Originally Posted by PoleDancer

Thanks chaps. Very helpful stuff.

NZC - NDrive do indeed sell Egypt mapping, which was effectively what I was looking for (if only I'd found that before I left the UK, where buying a GPS is cheap and easy). It sounds like if I can find a Windows CE GPS somewhere then that might be the right solution.

Kevinthegulf - Your City Stars man could be just the guy I'm looking for. I may not get out there until I have a car though. I don't suppose he has a cousin in Maadi or Downtown? ;-)

I am going to City Stars tomorrow I will look out for him and try and get a number for you.

A taxi to city stars from downtown is in a metered cab 29LE.. go on push the boat out lol

[MaidenScotland]

The chap outside the Duty Free has the GPS.. 1200LE for the 4.5 screen and for th 5'' screen the price is 1500LE and of course it can be used in English.

Telephone no.. 25193777

[PoleDancer]

Thanks. Very kind of you to look and report back. Appreciated.

[MaidenScotland]

I was out this evening and found another sat nav.. I didn't go into the shop to ask about it but it was in an english printed box and it was in shop next door to the care in the community Kentucky near the Alpha market in Dokki.

Maiden

[PoleDancer]

Thanks. That was kind of you to look and report back.

I popped in to see City Stars SatNav chappie, albeit my journey on the rickety tram thing (until it broke/derailed) and then on foot was far more economical than a shocking GBP3 taxi ;-)

For anyone else interested, he's selling THESE

They looked reasonable enough. The GPS software is iGo 8. The memory spec on the units meets the 'required' rather than the 'recommended' level for that software, but my guess is it should do. Mapping of Cairo looked sort of OK from his little demo (well it would, wouldn't it), but is clearly lacking for some areas of the country. For example, when I tried, it found Dahab, but didn't show any roads there. Unless I end up with a SatNav equipped car, I expect to buy and report back.