First Commercial Mobile Navigation System In Sl

[Lalinda]

Dialog, IWS launch first mobile satellite navigation system

Dialog Telekom PLC in partnership with IWS Geographical Information Systems (Private) Limited (IWS GIS) launched the country's first ever Mobile Navigation System. Dialog SatNav a fully featured GPS based mobile navigation system incorporates a digital street directory of Colombo which includes Class A, B, C and D roads in the Colombo Municipal Council area and suburbs.

Dialog SatNav also covers Class A and B roads across Sri Lanka. The Dialog SatNav device enables users to navigate Sri Lanka's road network using satellite positioning.

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The digital maps which form the heart of the navigation system support a range of advanced features such as the identification of "places of interest" and "optimum routes".

Dialog SatNav supports an advanced user interface complete with audio and visual prompts which serve to guide the user to a predefined destination. Dialog SatNav also enables customers to view maps in 2D (Dimension) or 3D (Dimension) format and to pre-configure frequently used routes.

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Source..

http://www.dailynews.lk/2008/05/02/bus02.asp

Edited May 2, 2008 by Lalinda

[Gummybr]

Dialog, IWS launch first mobile satellite navigation system

Dialog Telekom PLC in partnership with IWS Geographical Information Systems (Private) Limited (IWS GIS) launched the country's first ever Mobile Navigation System. Dialog SatNav a fully featured GPS based mobile navigation system incorporates a digital street directory of Colombo which includes Class A, B, C and D roads in the Colombo Municipal Council area and suburbs.

Dialog SatNav also covers Class A and B roads across Sri Lanka. The Dialog SatNav device enables users to navigate Sri Lanka's road network using satellite positioning.

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The digital maps which form the heart of the navigation system support a range of advanced features such as the identification of "places of interest" and "optimum routes".

Dialog SatNav supports an advanced user interface complete with audio and visual prompts which serve to guide the user to a predefined destination. Dialog SatNav also enables customers to view maps in 2D (Dimension) or 3D (Dimension) format and to pre-configure frequently used routes.

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Source..

http://www.dailynews.lk/2008/05/02/bus02.asp

Its good that someone took the initiative to do this. It was in need for sometime...

Personnal experience it still needs sometime to catch up. If you exceed 50kmph out of Colombo it takes time to configure where you are and starts wrong info (tried it on our way to N. Eliya last time). But supposed to be very good in Colombo..

ANyone else with experience with these devices??

[sharkster]

read about it today... how much does it cost?

[podilamaya]

It is 110,000 LKR, (one time fee), 1 year warranty from IWS, It seems map upgrades are available (don't know is that free)

[whatever]

Rs. 110k for a GPS system is too much when it is available for free in other countries.

You don’t need any service provider for GPS. The difficult part is mapping.

If you can create your own map, you don’t need to pay any money to a service provider.

Any device with GPS can be used for navigation. (Mobile phones with GPS or stand alone GPS receivers)

For example, there is a software called GPSMapedit. All you have to do is drive your vehicle with this software installed in a laptop with a GPS receiver attached and mark the waypoints. Later it can be super imposed with the geographical map. You need a dedicated group of people for this task.

If some one can initiate this, Dialog’s business plan can be beaten.

Edited May 4, 2008 by whatever