Are ipad maps better than a satnav when travelling in europe?

I'll be travelling in England, France and Ireland later on in the year and am wondering whether I can use my ipad for maps or if it is cheaper to buy a satnav. I have heard that data charges are high.

Satellite navigation systems are dedicated to their tasks without the need for external data feeds (except for the map updates you will perform probably only before you leave).
Also, iPads displayed for all the world to see seems a juicer theft target than a tiny unglamorous GPS box.
My humble opinion.

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http://www.apple.com/itunes/mastered-for-itunes/
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Jeremy, First welcome to the discussions,
Wireless technology is just a few mbs slower than a wired connection, for the most part you won't notice it.
Cabble is different than DSL. With cable you will get better more consistant speeds than you will with DSL.
Normally DSL is furnished through phone lines and the farther you are from the ISP's Servers the slower your connection is. This is not the case with Cable.
You are correct about Viruses. Mac is not to date affected by viruses Trojans and Malware. It is a good idea if for no other reason than peace of mind to have Virex or
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Mac OSX has one of the best firewalls you can also set up.
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PLAN_TABLE_OUTPUT
Plan hash value: 898894568
| Id | Operation            | Name              | Rows | Bytes | Cost (%CPU)|Time     |
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|   0 | SELECT STATEMENT     |                   | 49553 |    37M| 7075   (2)|00:01:25 |
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I came across this opinion that explicit cursors are better (even if the query returns a single row) instead of a single row SELECT statement within the code in terms of performance.
Is that true??? Pls elaborate in either case.
Can i hear it from Sri/Andrew ???
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Most people need a map when they are traveling, not in their local area.
To download maps using the limited 3G network coverage while traveling is EXPENSIVE.
A lot of places just do not have 3G and using 2G to download maps on the fly is SLOW & EXPENSIVE.
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Perhaps you have not done much traveling. I have.
I am also very experienced at reading all types of maps, including
topographical maps on land and depth contour maps and so on at sea.
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have inadequate or incorrect coverage. In Japan or China it can be difficult to
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