GPS navigation system for Jamaica: JAMNAV
Dec 11, 2009 gps navigation
Jamaica’s first GPS navigation map data was just made available as JAMNAV by Mona GeoInformatics Institute of the University of the West Indies. It includes about 10K miles of roads and 15K points of interests.
The map data is available on Garmin devices since the MGI worked as the local developer for the company figuring out complex intersections, one way streets, and parochial roads.
You can pick up a Garmin unit from Avis at Kingston or Montego Bay airports which are already loaded with the JAMNAV map data. Renting a car is optional. No seriously. You can just rent the GPS navigation unit.
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December 12th, 2009 at 5:06 pm
[...] sistema de datos de mapas para la navegación GPS de Jamaica llega la mercado con el nombre de JAMNAV y gracias al Instituto de la Universidad de las Indias Occidentales Mona [...]
December 12th, 2009 at 5:45 pm
[...] System von Daten der Landkarten kommt für die Schifffahrt GPS von Jamaika Markt mit dem Namen von JAMNAV und dank dem Institut der Universität der Westindischen Inseln Mona GeoInformatics. Die [...]
December 12th, 2009 at 5:45 pm
[...] для судоходства GPS Ямайки прибывает рынок с именем JAMNAV и благодаря Институту Университета Вест-Индии Мона [...]
December 12th, 2009 at 5:45 pm
[...] first system of information of maps for the navigation GPS of Jamaica comes market with the name of JAMNAV and thanks to the Institute of the University of the West Indies Mona GeoInformatics. The device [...]
December 13th, 2009 at 9:08 pm
The information of the maps is available in the Garmin devices because the MGI worked like local developer of the company to find out complex intersections, streets of felt only one, and the parochial ways.
January 1st, 2010 at 10:35 am
JAMNAV© is the GPS navigation map developed and released by the Mona GeoInformatics Institute (MGI), at The University of the West Indies’ Mona Campus. JAMNAV© is developed for use in Jamaica and offers tourists and locals street-level, turn-by-turn voice-assisted navigation across the island.
JAMNAV© offers over 15,000 km of roads including toll roads, major highways, principal highways, other highways, arterial roads, collector roads, residential roads, alleys tracks and pathways with street names and full auto-routable functionality. JAMNAV© takes you everywhere – with over 15,000 points of interest (POIs) in 68 categories including hotels, attractions, restaurants, embassies, gas stations, shopping places, banks, ATMs, hospitals, police stations and so much more. Users of JAMNAV© will have a real time digital road map for their vehicle, smart phone or laptop and be able to plan their route or change it on the fly in first world style and comfort.
JAMNAV© is based on the Garmin™ platform and is compatible with the full Garmin™ automotive range of navigation units. JAMNAV© reflects the same quality and content that users would be familiar with when using similar systems in the United States, Canada or Europe. However, MGI, as a local developer, has taken into consideration all the local complexities when delivering such a product to Jamaica and has calibrated JAMNAV© specifically for the Jamaican market, complete with all its unique attributes.
JAMNAV© has detailed coverage in rural Jamaica, not just the urban areas, and having all villages, towns and cities mapped travelers are able to move around with a greater sense of security and confidence. By virtue of its work with the police and with advanced crime mapping, MGI has preprogrammed perennially crime-ridden areas, and weighted such places to avoid preferred routing through those locales. JAMNAV© enables tourists and locals alike the option to travel with a greater degree of confidence and safety in knowing their location and finding places of interest when needed, whether in an emergency or on a whim.