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The December One · Veteran Guru

RE: On the road soon. Orange colour one.

young taxi driver · A Forum Supporter

Wah.. Die liao lor... Muz find other brand again..

bluenuts · Veteran Guru

Ya, Essence Brand of Chicken, good for your brain.

bridgestone · Guru

Bro YTD, if we take GPS as a reference tool then not much difference btw brands. GPS is annoying in eyes of taxi masters

almost 50% recommended routes are silly enough kena scold.

We drive taxi we know every turn is critical, once passed the correct entry is very difficult to correct especially taking booking or else pax will take another cab since we are late. Passenger claims "if no rush why call cab, I give you 5 mins if can't see I take another one".

Encountered potential error last night, received booking while arround Newton MRT go 341 Bt Timah Honululu Twr at lobby. Aiya easy job, 5 mins sure reach so started the Holux 62 see what route it recommends....

Aaha, it fools me Bt Timah turn Left into Keng Chin Road destination

. If follow it then die die snake lor, need go out Keng Chin to BT u turn Chinese Int Sec and round back Newton circle 5 mins sure late and pax may disappear. Use brain easier and cheap.

If really need a GPS for starting, Garmin + Jerome map is better in the way more suitable for taxi driver. It always leads me to the right entrance.

young taxi driver · A Forum Supporter

Anyone heard of tis GPS brand TIBO... Good??

TT_HH · A Forum Supporter

i got my china gps set only 180 niah... comes with sing, mal n thai maps.... very useful but only as a guideline....the intergration of human knowledge and gps helps me alot.... bro got ur cab le mah?

sgmrbean · New Member

Hi bros, I am not a taxi driver but i have been a gps user for a long time... you might not want to invest in what i did, do try this website, there is a group of ppl in singapore whom combine the maps of their own area and it is much better then mapking and others... I am super 100 % sure....

I am thinking to get a TVL as partime job..... see how la ...

here is the link...

http://www.malsingmaps.com/forums/index.php?sid=85e8829ca9d7f419ddd443e8d2696d6e

This guy wrote his own map and update it... but got to pay a small fees....nt alot... I have been using his map for the past 1 yr.. nt 100% gd but still way much better then any GPS seller in SG.....

http://gpsmaps.jwpixs.com/

gd luck... if need help on GPS, i dun mind if i can help... msn me @ sgmrbean@yahoo.com.sg

fairfare · Senior Guru

sgmrbean wrote:

Hi bros, I am not a taxi driver but i have been a gps user for a long time... you might not want to invest in what i did, do try this website, there is a group of ppl in singapore whom combine the maps of their own area and it is much better then mapking and others... I am super 100 % sure....

I am thinking to get a TVL as partime job..... see how la ...

here is the link...

http://www.malsingmaps.com/forums/index.php?sid=85e8829ca9d7f419ddd443e8d2696d6e

This guy wrote his own map and update it... but got to pay a small fees....nt alot... I have been using his map for the past 1 yr.. nt 100% gd but still way much better then any GPS seller in SG.....

http://gpsmaps.jwpixs.com/

gd luck... if need help on GPS, i dun mind if i can help... msn me @ sgmrbean@yahoo.com.sg

hi sgmrbean

welcome to our forum...hope you enjoy your stay here & thanks for the above useful info

our bros here are building a bond together to spruce up our profession as taxi drivers of a different breed irrespective which coy we drive for

btw...im using Morbella gps...did'nt know the possibility of map combination by others...anyway thnks for your nice gesture

hope to hear some jokes from you hor mrbean haha

stkee · Guru

One big difference I notice is that the map from malsing although is updated but most of the buildings blk numbers and names are not updated. So far I am using the original map from mapking, and I am able to find 99% of all address with the buildings indicated on the map properly. I have even tried using postal codes provided by pax and found the buildings with no problems... But when I loaded the maps from malsing, I have problems locating the individual buildings because most of the buildings are not indicated and the area is just a blank space....

I guess the main difference is that we need maps that is detailed to the individual buildings whereas for the general public used, maps that shows the roads is good enough...