hey everyone
I just wanted to know if there are any mobile phone navigation services provided in pakistan.
i live abroad and am used to using the navigation systmes like TOMTOM to get around but now i have heard that companies are providing the same facilities on mobile phone u just feed in whereu are and where u wanna be and u get directiion on ur phone…does anyone know about this kinda services in pakistan
Re: Mobile Phone Navigation in Pakistan
I don't think anyone has developed indexed electronic maps of Pakistan for driving purposes. So, no TomTom will work in Pakistan, and no mobile-phone-based GPS system will work either. This is to the best of my knowledge. Maybe someone can come along and tell us something new.
You can get GPS maps of Pakistan for flying small aircrafts, though.
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yeah thats true that no detailed maps for navigation purposes but i heard about this company called nav4all and in future they are planning to offer navigation services in karachi becasue apparenly there are detailed maps for big cities like karachi lahore and islamabad
they also offer the software is various language they already ahve hindi and are working of urdu and punjabi versions of it as welll.........hehehehhe
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there is this satellite navigation thing called c-track you can get for your cars in pakistan, i think you can request them for directions sometimes
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no it woun't work, for the obviouse reason that there is no GIS available for Pakistan. well they did some mapping back in 1999-2000 (mostly in Karachi) but till now that data is not released for commercial use.
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"request them for directions sometimes" ??? whats that, is it like a moody system? Anyway, I think you are talking about some Lo-Jack kinda thing, which is just to track stolen cars, but is not for driving directions.
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thats what I was thinking... may be it gives direction like this... aapka matlooba rasta bomb dhamakai ke wajah se band hai, barahai mehrbani kuch din baad ghar sai niklain
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i heard that Honda company offers the satelliet navigation systems on their cars..... anyone know more about that
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there are no street names or house numbers in soem areas of pakistan, how would that work? 
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a friend of mine told me some comapnies use mobile phone companies like mobilink to send sms to a 'secret' device inside a car to loate it.... is that true
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Yes, that’s true. It’s being done in a lot of other places.