Control Vision Introduces Street Mapping

The considerable army of Anywhere Map and Wx owners have several things in common-one is the dilemma when they land their aircraft, hop in a car and pick out restaurant or hotel to drive to. They generally have to ask directions (unless they've landed at their home airport). They may get to their secondary destination without a hitch, but more likely, they will have to stop and ask for more directions if it's not a late night or it isn't raining.

Now Anywhere Map extends the power of GPS mapping to North America's roads with a powerful new PDA called the Mio 168, with an amazingly detailed map of roads and points of interest. The street mapping utility is available from Control Vision as a complete ready-to-fly-and-drive system, or as a software upgrade for existing Anywhere Map customers.        

As a complete system, the Mio 168 includes a powerful 300 MHz PDA, a built-in 12-channel GPS, Mio Map� street mapping application, and the pilot's choice of Control Vision applications from Anywhere Map to Pocket Plates. The Mio's built-in SD (Secure Digital) slot enables data storage for Mio Map and Pocket Plates on inexpensive memory cards. Pricing for an Anywhere-equipped Mio with Mio Map software is $845.00.

The Mio's 3.5 inch screen shows 65,000 colors and is approximately the same size as HP's 2200 series. It is visible in sunlight, diminished light and darkness. Its North American street mapping program, Mio Map�, calculates a route from your present position in seconds, displaying the route in a flat map view, a 3-D perspective view or a bird's eye view, all the while calling out directions giving you up to two miles to prepare for a turn or an exit from an expressway. The Mio ships with all the software necessary for installation, a suction-cup mount for a vehicle, a cigarette lighter power supply, and an earphone for listening to the clear voice directions given.

For existing Anywhere Map customers, Control Vision offers Destinator�, the software equivalent of Mio Map that can be installed on any Control Vision PDA with a memory card. The Destinator software package is available for $189.00.

Anywhere Map pilots who wish to add the Mio 168 as a backup to their current Anywhere Map system may take advantage of the Anywhere Map software license which permits installing the moving map program on two PDAs under the owner's control.

FMI: www.controlvision.com