Many have talked about it, but no one really put in the money and effort to build something like this. Now, thanks to Trakker , for a whopping 95,000 rupees (95k only baba only), you could get into the “techie cool” club of those few who have a somewhat working GPS based nav system in their cars, as opposed to those non-working japanese-error displaying screens that you might oddly think of as cool in your newly imported Vitz ;) Will this really help me get from Golee Maar to my oddly located house, say in PECHS? well chances are it..might.

On a more serious note though, from what I have heard from users (I have not used this system yet) , if you can select your current location and destination from a street list (who knows street names in karachi?!) it will get you to your desired location. There are still some kinks to work out but it does have an extensive database of landmarks which should come in useful. Not sure about the “live assistant” idea though. Trakker is the right company to build this product though. They have the domain knowledge (tracking cars is their core business) and they have the most extensive road map database in Pakistan, presumably that is what has been used for the nav system. Now all Suzuki/Honda and Toyota have to do is offer this as an option on their higher end models, that would really be something.

Full details on the trakker home page here : http://trakker.com.pk/media_centre/trakker_nav.shtml

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