TomTom CityMaps

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Runs on: Psion Revo, Revo Plus, Series 5,
Series 5mx, Series 7, netBook,
Ericsson MC218, Diamond Mako, Osaris
Languages:
English, German, French, Dutch

Also available for:

List of cities: CD-ROM contents
See also: Electronic Editions
Ordering, Free Add-ons,
TomTom RoutePlanner,
The Michelin Red Guide
TomTom CityMaps is the perfect route planner when finding your way around a city. It’s easy to use and tells you very clearly how to travel from A to B. Simply enter your current position and your destination. TomTom CityMaps will calculate the quickest or the shortest route for you by car or by foot. You will be guided to your destination in more than 100,000 European cities and villages via any road, street or alley. And when connected to a GPS receiver, you will see exactly where you are and where to go!
(RoutePlanner Europe perfectly plans routes from town to town)

See also:
Which cities are available in Europe/Great Britain
Information about the Electronic Edition
Tips about connecting a GPS
TomTom RoutePlanner: international road maps and route planning

"The program is excellent, highly configurable, and extremely Geeky. There are no words to describe how good the combination with TomTom's GPS device is. It has made my citymap book and my desktop route planning software obsolete. Never go without it! For all these reasons, TomTom's Street Planner Millennium gets the maximum 5 Geekheads for Quality and Geekness. We should almost add an extra Geekhead, as the 5 Geekheads for Geekness just doesn't seem good enough..." - Milan Tjioe, PDAGeek

TomTom CityMaps plans the best route from the user's exact location to their desired destination. When planning a route TomTom CityMaps takes account of whether the user will be driving or walking. If driving, the user can gain information on all one-way systems and can request a route that avoids known traffic hotspots. If walking, the user can view any pedestrian shortcuts. The maps on TomTom CityMaps display the smallest side streets as well as the more major thoroughfares so always show the best route through a city.

| TomTom CityMaps

Perfect city maps...

- showing every road, street, and alley
- showing which roads are one-way, and in which direction
- showing points of interest, such as airports, railway stations and tube stations
- find any street in seconds, or any intersection between two streets. Even if you don't know exactly how to spell its name
- zoom in to astonishing detail
- other available (installed) maps in the country are shown as grey rectangles, and can be selected by clicking it.
- background detail e.g. landmarks such as water, urban area and forest
- add your own locations to the map (TomTom CityMaps overlays are compatible with RoutePlanner overlays) and plan to locations of overlays
- assign keys to your favorite locations, so you can find them on the map with one keypress
- connect a GPS: includes map-matching and real-time monitoring of your progress on the route
  (read some answers to frequently asked questions about connecting a GPS)

... and perfect route planning

- using up-to-date information about one-way roads, private roads, U-turn restrictions and other traffic rules
- able to calculate the quickest way to get there, or the shortest route to take, or the fastest way to get there on foot, or how to get there given your own preferences for certain types of road
- keeping in mind that certain streets are blocked, jammed, or have slow traffic
- keeping in mind YOUR average driving speeds
- avoid certain areas, if you wish
- avoid certain streets, or certain stretches of streets, if you wish
- get perfect driving or walking instructions, turn by turn directions, either graphically, in text format, or in a "split-view" combination
- rotating maps, including 'Auto-Rotate' , whereby the map rotates according to the users' perspective

Example 1.
The London Map,
zoomed out to cover an 8 x 4 mile area,
with the highlight on the Tower Bridge
Example 2.
The area near Haarlemmerplein, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Note the individual streets names and one-way street indicators.
Example 3.
a split view, showing how to walk
from Black Friars Lane to Waterloo Gardens
in text and graphics.
Example 4.
Find streets even if you don't exactly know the name.
Note how TomTom CityMaps suggests "Commons, Miltons, Miles and Mills"
in an attempt to help you find your Oxford address.
Example 5.
Finding a location: so where exactly on
Buckingham Street do you want to be?
Also note the status bar at the bottom, showing
information about where the cursor is pointing.

| CityMaps vs. RoutePlanner

Our TomTom RoutePlanner offers road networks, and can plan routes from city to city. It is intended to replace the 1:250.000 (or lower scale) road maps you use in your car to drive through a country, or to your holiday destination.
Our new TomTom CityMaps offers maps of cities rather than countries or continents. It is intended to replace street maps and city maps, and can plan door-to-door walking routes as easily as car routes.
TomTom CityMaps can be used in conjunction with TomTom RoutePlanner. Together these products can be used to map a route around a city and between cities.

| Cities included

The CD-ROM edition of TomTom CityMaps offers door-to-door route planning for over 100.000 cities in Austria, Belgium, Denmark, England, France, Germany, Italy, Luxembourg, Portugal, The Netherlands, Spain, Sweden and Switzerland. A complete list of all the cities included can be found here.
The Electronic Editions of TomTom CityMaps offers door-to-door route planning for Amsterdam, Berlin, Brussels, Geneva, Hanover, London, Madrid, Paris, Rome and Stockholm. The Electronic Editions of TomTom CityMaps are specially developed for immediate download. A complete list of all the cities included can be found here.
On the new colour supported handheld computers (Psion Series 7, Netbook) the maps for TomTom CityMaps can be viewed in colour offering clear definition of parks, rivers and main roads.
The GPS indicator (showing the current driving direction) and the GPS compass window.
When used in conjunction with a GPS, TomTom CityMaps can pinpoint the user's exact location and display their position on the map. TomTom CityMaps can then track the user's progress to the desired destination making it impossible to get lost even when travelling in a city for the first time.

| Independent reviews

| Street Planner voted best software title for 1998 by 5alive/Tucows Street Planner voted EPOC Application of the Year 1998

- "The definitive urban route planner, Street Planner, is awesome in its attention to detail. Every street and alley in every town is here, with full walking or driving route-planning; it even knows about traffic calming measures, bollards and local restrictions! If you thought TomTom's Route Planner was impressive, this is even better, complementing its sister product very well indeed."
  - Steve Litchfield, 3lib
- "Everything about this program oozes quality - the packaging is good, the booklet is of high quality and even the install routine is well thought out (...) The program comes from Palmtop BV - what more is there to say? It works well, it works quickly and it’s accurate. (...) A truly marvellous achievement. Whether you’re a poor navigator, or someone who has to travel extensively for business, or just someone who needs to know how to find a location in an unfamiliar town, this application is for you - it is a real work of genius. Star rating: it has to be a magnificent 5 out of 5!
  - www.foxpop.ndirect.co.uk
- "This is one seriously useful piece of software from the code wizards at Palmtop BV. Street Planner is the most impressive piece of software yet released for the Series 5 and is quite staggering in its scope. Zooming in reveals that every road spur, every alley and every twist and turn of your neighbourhood is covered. Very impressive. (...) Street Planner is possibly the single most genuinely useful piece of Psion software I've ever seen."
  - Steve Litchfield, 3lib
- "With Palmtop BV's Street Planner, the first use takes your breath away with the sophistication and flexibility, and the more I use it, the more impressed I am with it. It has already managed to win awards. All I can say is that it deserves it. As someone who drives around the country from time to time, and has to find streets I've never been to before, this is an incredible piece of software."
  - John Woodthorpe
- "Another triumph from TomTom BV. 5 stars for a really professional program; 5 Fox Gods for a thoroughly Geofox friendly program; 5 smileys for a real killer app."
  - Andy Hayes, Foxpop
- "Having used both Route Planner and Street Planner in cars and on foot, I can testify to their functionality. Together, they are a navigational tour de force, and I defy you to get lost with them."
  - Jim Calderbank, 5Alive
- "It's amazing! If you've read other reviews and thought that nothing can be that good, believe me it is every bit as good as everyone else says, and fully deserves all the awards it has been given. At a recommended price of £49·95 (inc. VAT) it represents stunning value for money. If you only think of it as a replacement for paper street planners, it looks remarkably cheap. When you add in the planning facility it is nothing short of outstanding. It has to be the dream of everyone who travels in unfamiliar towns, and combined with Route Planner, provides a compelling reason for such a person to buy and use a Series 5 if they haven't got one already."
  - Armlink
- "Definitely a must for anyone who does a lot of travelling."
  - PC Magazine
- "When you first realise the scope of this application you have to seriously re-evaluate the use of your palmtop. Simply put, this is one of those applications that will sell machines. Anybody getting lost with this application should be locked up, it's simply impossible. The amount of configurable options both in route planning and displaying them is extremely comprehensive and this application should really be a must for everybody who travels anywhere. TomTom once again exceed expectations and further stretch the usage of EPOC. This application is polished, fast and most importantly, useful."
  - Jody Armstrong, Tucows

Read these and other independent reviews

| Related products

TomTom RoutePlanner The International Road Map and Route Planning application | Michelin Red Guide 11,000 European + 13,500 French hotels and restaurants | Collins Dictionaries The well-known bilingual HarperCollins dictionaries. | Expense Manager Helps keep track of your business expenses

| Technical Details

Languages | Requirements | Distribution | Suitable for

The application runs in English,
German,
French and
Dutch

At least 580k of free memory is required to run the application. (Psion Series 7 and netBook require 1.3 Mb). More may be required when planning complex routes. Memory requirements will depend on the maps you wish to install.
Most cities are between 200 and 400k, major cities such as Paris can be as large as 3.4 Mb.

Available
on CD-ROM
Price: £ 39.99
and by
immediate download
See list of cities
Price: US$ 19.99

Psion Revo
Psion Revo Plus
Psion Series 5
Psion Series 5mx
Ericsson MC218
Diamond Mako
Psion Series 7*
Psion netBook*
Osaris
Geofox
* colour support

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