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Thank you for visiting Sat Nav Express. We provide you with an up to the minute selection of the best portable satellite navigation systems available. To ensure that we can always offer you the best products at the lowest prices we stock a huge range of systems including Garmin, Snooper, TomTom, Road Angel, Navman and Mio. A feature of our product range is the facility to update the information available on your sat nav. Whether you are a low mileage driver looking for a low cost satnav or a professional driver looking for the most sophisticated satellite navigation system available. SatNav Express will provide you with the advice you need and the product
Why do you need a satellite navigation system?
- Have you ever forgotten where you left your car?
- Have you ever argued with the “navigator” in the passenger seat or the back seat driver
- Have you ever gone round in circles pretending that you know where you are?
- You can throw away that scruffy atlas on the rear parcel shelf
- Unlike your atlas your SATNAV need never be out-of-date!
- You will keep your driving license - remember three endorsements £180
- Only 4 speeding fines - LOSS OF FREEDOM AND POSSIBLY LIVELYHOOD.
The proliferation of safety cameras has caught out just about everybody at one time or other. We supply a comprehensive range of GPS safety camera detectors and the very latest two-in-one sat nav and camera location systems from Snooper and Road Angel. These combination navigation and camera detector units are the ultimate driving partner. The new Snooper Syrius topped the latest Which magazine satellite navigation reviews (Feb2007) coming home in front of TomTom, Garmin And Navman.
Our website gives you information on all the current systems and the best prices on the net and in the high street. However, if there is a navigation system you want and you don’t see it here or in the unlikely event you see a sat nav system at a lower price elsewhere contact us we won’t just match it we will beat it.
What is satellite navigation?
All automotive satellite navigation systems work on the same basic principles
The unit receive’s signals from strategically placed satellites placed in orbit around the Earth. Unlike other GPS systems these use position data to locate the user on the road in the units map database. Using the road database, the unit can give directions to other locations along roads also in the database
Points of interest will also be stored with their geographic coordinates. POIs such as filling stations, public parking and cash point machines are common to most units but the database is expanding daily.
There is no industry standard for satellite navigation maps . The map vendors Tele Atlas and NavTeq create the base map in a standard format and this is converted on to the CD-Rom in the navigation system
The road database is stored in the unit whereas more detailed information is downloaded from a CD or DVD via a computer or via the internet. It is this information that makes one unit better than the next.
Some newer systems can not only give precise driving directions, they can also receive and display information on traffic congestion and suggest alternative routes.
