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[georgep83]

GREAT NEWS, Cyprus is now available from this site http://www.geo-tek.eu/GPS.html
I got the demo and it works perfect. Now i am getting my new WM5 from these guys and install it.

[Kikapu]

May I ask, why would anyone needs a GPS Navigation system in Cyprus.

Lets face it, there's no way you can get lost in Cyprus. First of all, you are surrounded by water, therefore you know when you have reached the end of the line, either by the sea or the Green Line, then you just simply turn around and go back.

Even for me, who had been gone from Cyprus for 43 years, was able to find my way around without any difficulty. If only street signs were written larger, it would have helped a great deal, but even with just a regular Road Map, one can go any place they wanted.

Some things are not necessary in life, and a GPS in Cyprus, is one of them.

[Leonidas]

Kikapou
Have you driven in Nicosia? I still get lost in Larnaca and Limassol.

One day last year I drove arouind Nicosia with my sister in law giving me directions on my cellphone and it still took me over an hour to get to my destination. When I left their house I was only 10 minutes away from where I was going. Those one way sreets kill me.

Then again I am spoiled with the GPS systems in the USA

[zan]

I do like the idea of Kikapu bouncing back and forth from coast to coast like a ping pong ball......

[oranos64]

Hi every one
Cyprus GPS navigation system for cars and general use is complete. You can register your account , write comments and suggestions and even order (Mail Orders Only) online inclusion in to POIs databse or GPS SD card.
Regards

http://shop.gpscyprus.com

waste of money ....you dont need this modern piece of crap .... it was offered to the police and they turned it down ...cyprus is 5 highways thats all ...a moron could learn the roads in a couple of weeks ,,,,

just another crap piece of software ... i got the nokia n95 without this crap ... learn the roads of cyprus by driving them ...no piece of software can teach you the back streets of cyprus ...

spend the money on a gym membership ...

[Kikapu]

Kikapou
Have you driven in Nicosia? I still get lost in Larnaca and Limassol.

One day last year I drove arouind Nicosia with my sister in law giving me directions on my cellphone and it still took me over an hour to get to my destination. When I left their house I was only 10 minutes away from where I was going. Those one way sreets kill me.

Then again I am spoiled with the GPS systems in the USA

Yes, I drove in Nicosia for 2 days and found every place that I wanted to go...with a real map in my hand. Granted, due to small writings on the street signs I was forced to make U-Turns now and again, but that was not a problem either.

I could have told you that, that driving and being on a cell phone is another bad idea. You got one hand on the phone close to your ear, one hand on the wheel, and you are driving a Manual car, and also trying to read road signs at the same time, and you are holding up traffic behind you, because you can't read the damn street signs fast enough, so you get honks from behind, while the person who is giving you directions while you are rolling say "take right" and as you do the person says "sorry, I meant to say, take left" and now you are totally screwed.

A little planning goes a long way if you just looked at a normal street map and form a plan in your mind, as to where it is that you want to go, so you have at least have some idea to the general direction you want to go.

USA cities are designed in such a way with their Grid System, is the least of all places one would need a GPS. London on the other hand, is another story.

[Kikapu]

I do like the idea of Kikapu bouncing back and forth from coast to coast like a ping pong ball......

But it's true Zan. Besides, getting a "little lost" is the only way of finding new places to see that one would have never found, if they only went to the places they only intended in going to.

I know it sounds confusing, but it's true.

[boomerang]

Try this website for all your questions...I found it very usefull

http://www.pxdxa.com/?skinco=english

you need to log in

[devil]

They say never trust a Greek bearing gifts. I say, never trust a Cypriot giving directions.

Firstly, they have NO idea of distances. For example, on Exit 10 to Mosfiloti, there is a sign proclaiming a (good) fish&chippery right 300 m. In fact, if you went 9 times that distance, you still wouldn't have reached it. Another example: go from Orphanides (Strovolos) towards Latsia past the stadium. At the 3rd junction after the stadium, there is a sign, "Petrol, 300 m ->". In reality, much nearer this time, it's only 1 km distant. But 300 m is the Cypriot standard for any distance between 100 m and 10 km. Another example: in a government office, I was asked to go next door up the street. Next door was a block of flats, all privately owned. So I wander up the street. Eventually I find it, 100 m up the street, across a side-road and on the other side of the street. Next door? One needs to be clairvoyant.

Secondly, they can't count. Third right can mean anything from first right to 22nd right. I was directed once to third left along Makarios Avenue going North, after the Hilton. In fact, an hour later, I found it was in the street with the Irish pub on the corner, just before the Woolworth's lights.

Thirdly, they don't know their left from their right. On another occasion, I was told it was on the left. I double-checked with αριστερά but, of course, it was on the right (the other left?)

Fourthly, they cannot read maps. I have sent maps how to find our house on hundreds of occasions. If the recipient is Cypriot, two or three hours after the appointed time I get a phone call saying that he cannot find us and he is by the cemetery (or wherever), less than 100 m from where we are, where does he find us? It is usually a pain trying to guide him to us by phone (he has to make all of TWO turnings!) and, more than thrice, I have had to go out to find him. Yet, every other nationality, with the same map, has found us without the slightest difficulty.

There are very few decent maps with references to street names, except for Nicosia. Even then, if you're told that such-and-such a place is in John Kennedy Avenue, it may not occur to you to look under Tzon Kenenti in the list, so that would be useless.

Anyway, GPS mapping will be useless for Cypriots, even the expensive oral types that tell you to exit the motorway at the next junction and turn right, go 850 m and turn left and it is the third house on the left. They will have ended up in Kyrenia! As for the display type, it's oooh, it's a pretty picture!

[Leonidas]

To Kipapu and the Devil. (nice nic by the way lol)

For one I was on the hands free with my cellphone. So that was not an issue even though I am used to driving and talking on the cell here. It is leagal to do that here.

You can not tell me that Nicosia is easy to drive around. Even when I was living there I had a heck of a time finding anything. And the Devil is right. Directions given there suck

Also keep in mind not all the people that visit Cyprus drive on the same side of the road. Add that to the equation. Try to keep a car on the proper side of the street when you mostly are used to driving a left steering wheel car and driving on the right of the road.

I guess for people like me that visit once or twice a year is not easy to adjust and find your way around in a couple of weeks. And Cyprus has a LOT of people visiting like I do. At least I can speak the language. (Not that is always helpful lol)

So maps and all are fine but I am glad GPS is finally coming back home.

By the way Devil. Are you sure your guests are lost and not the typical 0ne to two hrs late that most of our countrymen are. "See you in 15 minutes" means anytime from 1/2 hr to 2 hrs. Cyprus time!!!!!!