TomTom CityMaps

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Street Planner has become one of TomTom's most popular and most awarded application for EPOC devices. Since its launch in 1998, the software has received several awards.
Then we announced Street Planner Millennium, offering improved software, new features and also, especially, new data. Below you can find information about the improvements made.
Now we are proud to announce the latest edition of this software, TomTom CityMaps, which offers up-to-date data for over 100.000 cities, and for the first time combines all Western European countries on one single CD-ROM.

| New Data

Since the release of the original Street Planner, the data companies TeleAtlas and Navigation Technologies have been improving their data, updating the maps to reflect the many changes that were made to European cities.
The new version makes use of this new data.
Other major improvements have been:

- Psion REVO compatibility.
- Support for 16 Grey screens and colour screens.
- Automatic switching to other maps when you click outside the borders of the currently displayed map.
- Grouping of adjacent towns and cities into larger maps.
- Many new maps. There is now one single CD-ROM including all Western-European countries, including the United Kingdom, Denmark and Sweden (click here for a complete overview of the cities covered).

Street Planner Millennium

| New in the Millennium version

- Includes "backgrounds", e.g. landmarks such as water, urban areas and forest are visible on the map.
- Rotating map, including "Auto-Rotate", whereby the map rotates according to the users’ perspective.
- New button in toolbar "Show": quick access to view preferences (show arrows, locator, rotator, legend,..).
- The "ZOOM" control bar allows you to automatically display more detail as you zoom in and less detail as you zoom out.
- Avoiding 'part of route'.
- Ability to plan an alternative (next best route) to the one suggested.

Since the Millennium version there is also a horizontal "split view" (as well as the old vertical split).

The horizontal split view.

The software has been optimised for use with a GPS: Includes map-matching and real-time monitoring of your progress on route. You can now attach Global Positioning Systems running NMEA 0183 version 1.5 or higher, or the SiRF protocol.

One of the new GPS dialogs in Street Planner Millennium.
The new GPS indicator (showing the current driving direction) and the GPS compass window.

Apart from these, many small improvements have been made:

- Better instructions for short distances, subsequent directions are displayed under the map.
- Ability to plan to locations of overlays.
- New graphical legend.

The software is compatible with all Psion PDAs including the Psion Revo and the Ericsson MC218. On the new Psion Series 7 and Netbook the maps for Street Planner Millennium can be viewed in colour offering clear definition of parks, rivers and main roads.
We are proud to present TomTom CityMaps as an invaluable tool for anyone who is travelling around a new city or who simply wants to know the quickest route to a destination in their home town.

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