The choice of a map is influenced by terrain features, travel distance and distance from major cities. For example, the Avtosputnik system is useful for those who use POI sights, and CityGid for residents of Moscow and St. Petersburg.
With the advent of navigators, inveterate travelers noticeably "revived", because there was an opportunity to "move" in their car anywhere, even to the ends of the world, having installed such a brainchild of technical progress in it. But it was not there, many motorists complain that such a modern "compass" took them into the forest or offered to wade across Mother Volga. As it turned out, the whole point is in the special maps supplied to the navigator, the quality of navigation depends on them.
Map type for navigators
1. Maps of raster graphics. A typical example is Google Map, which provides high-quality satellite imagery. Such maps should be chosen by fishermen, hunters and hiking enthusiasts, since they allow you to really see the terrain and plot the most expedient route.
2. Vector maps carry information about all points (POI-points of interest) that may be needed by motorists. We are talking about street names, house numbers, hotels, gas stations and other buildings. That is, these are convenient and understandable car maps.
Criterias of choice
When choosing a card, you need to build on what exactly you want to know with its help. If you need to plan a route to the mountains, you need to choose one map, if you find out about the state of traffic jams on the roads of the metropolis, then another. For example, Europeans use maps from the European company Tele Atlas with pleasure, but in Russia they often misinform motorists due to the large length of the country.
The navigation programs of the "Navitel" family are highly trusted: with their help you can get information about all the major cities of the European part of Russia and the largest ones in the Asian part. As for the possibility of building a route taking into account traffic jams, in this case, you can resort to the Yandex. Cards". It's free. But it is not always accurate and suffers from delays. And the services of the SMILINK news agency are paid. The Avtosputnik system, which it serves, is indispensable when moving from city to city, it is praised by truckers, since these maps are the most informative in terms of the number of objects on them.
As for the maps of the Navikom navigation system installed on Garmin's navigators, it can be argued that these maps are updated very rarely, which means that the risk of "going in the wrong place" increases many times. Although the size of the maps allows for a detailed route, they are very imprecise.
Residents of both capitals of Russia are more fortunate: they can use CityGuide maps, which are regularly updated and allow you to always bring them where they need to.
