• Text-to-speech
• Lane guidance
• EcoRoute feature
• Maps of 22 European countries
• 2 million points of interests
• Preloaded speed limits
• Special interests POI database

Allow me to start this with my personal experience. While serving in Survey and Locating wing, in order to determine the coordinates of a point we used to measure earth with steel tape, solve triangles and relate them to map and so on. Our lives became easy when Global Positioning System (GPS) was inducted. It was fitted in a vehicle and where ever we went the system would give us the exact coordinates of the point. Now GPS has come a very long way. It is being used on land, in air and sea for multi purposes by individuals, commercial concerns and agencies. And now it is available in hand held devices.

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