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France gets Evadeo backed by maps from IGN

Nov 9, 2006 gps navigation

France’s National Geographical Institute (IGN), well-known for its maps of excursion, presented Evadeo, “a GPS which makes it possible to find its road even when there is no more road “.

Like any GPS navigation system, Evadeo allows streets navigation and its software has the main features (3D view, POI, speed radar locations but on the other hand no traffic information. The fixed radars are delivered preloaded and IGN offers the free update for 3 months, beyond, it will be necessary to take out an annual subscription of 18 Euros.

The maps of France, comes from Navteq and is dated from the second quarter of 2006 which is very recent.

But the strong point of Evadeo, is that while it allows navigation with IGN street maps outside on the roads, it is also practical while wondering around or just on a bike.

Evadeo also integrates base IGN made up of 1.7 million topological points of interests , such as the place names inhabited or simple localities, the names of the mills, the collars, the hamlets, the monuments, the forests, the clearings, of the laundrettes… on all of France.

Its main features :

• 3.5 inch touch screen LCD TFT 65K colors at 320 x 240 pixels and luminosity of 320cd/m²
• SiRF III GPS receiver with integrated antenna
• Samsung SC2410 processor at 266MHz
• 64 MB of ROM
• 64 MB of RAM
• MiniUSB 1.1
• Port SD/MMC
• Windows CE 4.2
• Dimensions : 11 x 8.7 X 2.1 cm
• Weight : 183 g
• Nonremovable lithium-ion 1400 mAh battery with 3 hours of endurance

The Evadeo contains more than 2 GB of data, provided on two SD cards of 1 GB each (for the North of France and the other for the South):

The road maps of France, provided by Navteq, for road navigation and walking downtown
Maps IGN SIGNAL 100, chart of whole France walk to the 1/100 0002nd which comprises tourist information and hiking trails for the walks or bike.
Base IGN of the toponyms for research of places

Its final price will be 449 Euros and it will be available starting November 15 in two IGN shops as well as the stores specialtly stores.

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