This week we announced our much awaited enhanced real-time traffic service, ActiveTraffic. We’ve been working extremely hard to make sure we’re providing you the most advanced and useful traffic service available. On Tuesday we gave you a overview of what ActiveTraffic is. Now I’d like to provide a little more detail about how it works and how you can use it. Continue reading ‘What exactly can you do with ActiveTraffic™?’
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Since the weekend, if you’ve tried to launch CoPilot Central 2.0 on your desktop, you may already have discovered that it does not start up properly. You may see an Unhandled Exception error message similar to the one below when you launch CoPilot Central 2.0 and we would like to apologize for any inconvenience this is causing you.
However, the good news is that we have been working hard to fix this and we now have a new version available which resolves this issue. Continue reading ‘Important Information – For Windows Mobile and Android customers using CoPilot Central 2.0 desktop companion software’
With August underway we’ve entered the peak of the summer travel season. Whether you’re traveling at home or venturing cross country, you can guarantee some unexpected costs will arise. With an on-board navigation solution such as CoPilot Live, one cost you won’t have to worry about is roaming charges!
A question we’re often asked is why do I need a full-featured GPS navigation app when my Android phone comes with free Google Navigation? Or if I can get one of the many free GPS navigation apps available in the App Store why should I spend money on one? So we thought it would be helpful to help you understand one of the key differences of these options and ensure you don’t end up spending money using navigation you thought was free!
In the navigation industry, we refer to Google Navigation and apps that rely on your mobile internet as “off-board” navigation solutions and CoPilot Live as an “on-board” navigation solution. Let me explain exactly what this means. Continue reading ‘Roam free this summer with CoPilot Live’
We’ve just released a new free monthly map maintenance update for all CoPilot Live North America, CoPilot Live USA, CoPilot Live HD North America and CoPilot Live Directions customers. The new update includes emergency road closures, updates reported by users via MapSure™ during the month of June and other improvements. So if you submitted a street or address change in June, it’s now available! Continue reading ‘June MapSure requests now available’
We’ve just released a new free monthly map maintenance update for all CoPilot Live North America, CoPilot Live HD North America and CoPilot Live Directions customers. The new update includes emergency road closures, updates reported by users via MapSure™ during the month of May and other improvements. So if you submitted a street or address change in May, it’s now available! Continue reading ‘May MapSure requests now available’
2010 FIFA World Cup kicks off in just a few weeks and we’re heading towards fever pitch here at CoPilot Live!
If you are fortunate enough to be flying to South Africa to follow Team USA’s progress, we hope you’ve packed our South Africa edition of CoPilot Live with you to make your soccer safari* a little easier.
In addition to providing you with turn-by-turn directions, we thought we’d also give you a few general tips for driving in South Africa:
- Important news for Americans abroad – South Africans drive on the left-hand side of the road with passing on the right. So don’t forget you may think you’re riding shotgun but quickly find yourself in the driver’s seat! The steering wheel is located on the right –hand side of the car. Continue reading ‘Tips for your journey following Team USA to the Cup’
We’ve just released a new monthly map maintenance update for all CoPilot Live North America and CoPilot Live Directions customers. The new update includes emergency road closures, updates reported by users via MapSure™ during the month of April and other improvements. So if you submitted a street or address change in April, it’s now available! Continue reading ‘April MapSure requests now available’
We’ve just released the very latest Q1 2010 North America map data for CoPilot Live North America customers.
If you haven’t already, be sure sure to download your free full map update which adds thousands of new miles of roads throughout the U.S. and Canada and hundreds of map improvements submitted by the CoPilot Live user community through the MapSure™ service. Continue reading ‘Free Quarterly Full Map Update for North America’
We’ve posted a new update for the CoPilot Central 2.0 Desktop Companion software for Android and Windows Mobile customers. With this new update, PC*MILER Navigator 450 and RightWay 550 customers are also now eligible to use CoPilot Central.
The new update includes the following improvements:
- Adds support for PC*MILER Navigator 450 and RightWay 550 customers
- Better device detection
- Improved backup size calculation PC*MILER Navigator 450 and RightWay 550 customers
- Resume partial downloads
- Fix KML generation on non-English computers
There are 2 new versions of the update available. Both versions offer exactly the same functionality and features. The different version numbers correspond to how you are downloading the update. Therefore you only need to download one version. Continue reading ‘Central 2.0 update available’
Update: CoPilot Live HD North America has been approved and is now available in iTunes!
CoPilot Live wins Engadget's iPhone GPS navigation shootout!! Read all about it here
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If you notice a road or an address that you believe needs updating, you can report it directly to us. We will verify the information, add it to our maps and distribute it back to you through an update within 45 days.
The CoPilot Live Team at CES 2010
