TomTom CityMaps

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Runs on:
Nokia 9210, Nokia 9290
Languages:
English, German, French, Dutch

Also available for:

See also: Cities covered on the CD-ROM
Michelin Hotel & Restaurant Guide
TomTom CityMaps is a convenient citymap and route planning application. TomTom CityMaps can plan perfect routes within a city. You will be guided to your destination in over 100,000 European cities via any road, street or alley in an instant! Whether you walk, drive or take the bus TomTom CityMaps can be your own personal navigator around Europe.

First Prize Nokia Mobile Challenge Application Contest

"This traveller's tool maximizes the enjoyability of visiting new territory. TomTom CityMaps is much more than an ordinary city map - it is also a guide with whom you can communicate. It gives you clear and detailed instructions, taking into account any local traffic regulations. Over 30,000 downloadable maps elevates this communicable application to the mobile travel solution's world class."

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. Even traffic attributes like turn restrictions and one way streets are taken into consideration. The maps can be viewed at different levels of detail.

EPOC review:
"The program is excellent, highly configurable, and extremely Geeky. It has made my citymap book and my desktop route planning software obsolete. Never go without it! For all these reasons, TomTom's CityMaps 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

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
- assign keys to your favorite locations, so you can find them on the map with one keypress
- over 100.000 cities and towns covered (click here for a complete list)

... 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

| Independent reviews

"Fazit: Das Programm scheint wirklich interessant zu sein, vorallem wenn noch mehr Karte veröffentlicht werden, dann lohnt sich evt. auch ein Kauf des GPS-Empfängers! (...) Der Preis von 24.50sFr. scheint mir jedoch absolut gerechtfertigt, für ca. 95sFr. soll man sogar 100'000 Städte auf CD-Rom erhalten, dies scheint mir nahezu geschenkt zu sein..?!?!"
Epoc reviews
- "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
- "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
- "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
- "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!"
  - Alan Barlow, Foxpop
  Palm reviews
- "Die Software-Schmiede TomTom, manchen sicher auch als Palmtop bekannt, macht genau solche Programme für alle wichtigen PDA Platformen. Dabei holt TomTom mal wieder das maximal mögliche aus den Geräten heraus. (...) Sehr gut gefallen hat uns die Darstellung der Karten, auch im Schwarz-WeiB-Modus mit Graustufen sind sie gut sichtbar. Die TomTom Karten sind recht aktuell und detailreich. Nicht umsonst hat CityMaps den Nokia Softwarepreis für den neuen Communicator gewonnen. Ein wirklich empfehlenswertes Produkt, mit gut verwirklichten Ideen."
  - Handy & Mobilfunk (August 2001)
- "The map files are highly compressed, switching and loading maps is very quick, rarely taking more than a couple of seconds. They are very detailed, accurate and attractively presented. CityMaps scores in the route planning department by virtue of knowing enough about road types and speeds and offer both a choice of 'quickest' and 'shortest' routes and also a report on the expected duration of each leg of the journey... a very mature product... this sort of technology in the palm of your hand would still have seemed like magic only ten years ago... impressive and thorough... you'll find CityMaps the slicker, prettier and more efficient alternative."
  - PalmUser magazine issue 8

  Read these and other independent reviews

| Other TomTom products

Collins Dictionaries English, French, German, Italian, Spanish | V-Rally The famous World Championship Racing game | Michelin Red Guide 11,000 European + 13,500 French hotels and restaurants | TomTom CityMaps Paris Now available on CD-Rom at our Mail-order store

| 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. 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.
Check out the list of cities covered

There are several single-city versions available for immediate download:
US$ 14.99
A CD-ROM version containg over 100.000 cities is also available:
GBP£ 39.99

Nokia 9210
Nokia 9290

| Versions for immediate download

Note: you may prefer the CD-ROM version of TomTom CityMaps which contains a large choice of more than 100.000 European cities - including all the ones below.

| Price | Area covered | size for maximum detail
| US$ 14.99 | Amsterdam | 1.0 Mb
| US$ 14.99 | Barcelona | 1.1 Mb
| US$ 14.99 | Berlin | 1.5 Mb
| US$ 14.99 | Bruxelles | 0.9 Mb
| US$ 14.99 | London Greater London Area, including M25 | 5.0 Mb
| US$ 14.99 | Madrid | 1.3 Mb
| US$ 14.99 | Milan | 1.0 Mb
| US$ 14.99 | Munich | 1.0 Mb
| US$ 14.99 | Paris Paris and surroundings | 3.5 Mb
| US$ 14.99 | Rome | 1.6 Mb
| US$ 14.99 | Stockholm | 1.7 Mb
| US$ 14.99 | Vienna | 0.8 Mb

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