TT MapShare and Mini Roundabouts

PaulB2005 · Posted: Wed Apr 11, 2012 9:19 am Post subject: TT MapShare and Mini Roundabouts

Do TT not "recognise" mini-roundabouts?

I've had a couple rejected on the MapShare Reporter site that are definately there!!

I know they are only mini roundabouts but it does affect the priority of the roads at that point and it's nice to know one is coming up.... (Yeah i know about the signs etc...)

Tim Buxton

Stampy72 · Posted: Wed Apr 11, 2012 12:28 pm Post subject:

I've had the same problem....

I pass over 3 new ones constructed in the last year on my way into work , TT say they don't exist.... Rolling Eyes

I just keep reporting them as well.... Smile

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GerryC · Posted: Wed Apr 11, 2012 12:50 pm Post subject:

From my experience, when they are just on a crossroads, they seem not to accept them (go straight ahead if not told otherwise). However, when it would otherwise not be obvious (eg 3-way ones where there's no obvious T-junction effect), they appear to accept them.

Probably depends on which side of the bed the editor got out of. Confused

Gerry

Privateer · Posted: Wed Apr 11, 2012 4:05 pm Post subject:

I'm afraid that mini roundabouts are the reason that I stopped submitting map changes to TomTom.

I keep a log of all of the map changes that I have submitted to TomTom. Nearly three years ago, on 15th May 2009 (using TomTom 730T and Western and Central Europe 2GB V825.2157 map) I submitted a roundabout in Wheatley, Oxford. Three years on and the TomTom maps still don't have it. If you click on the link you'll see that Google maps have it and it is plain to see on satellite view too, so TomTom don't even need to send anybody to verify it!

beeceegee · Occasional Visitor Joined: May 09, 2011 Posts: 25

I've noticed recently that my TT1005 fails to recognize a couple of quite large roundabouts as such. Instead it will navigate a right turn as "turn left, turn right, turn right, turn left". It saw them correctly until about 6 months ago
BrianG

DennisN · Posted: Thu Apr 12, 2012 8:00 pm Post subject:

For some long time now, I have submitted only half a dozen mapshares, really for my own convenience, and I have uploaded them just in case any of you care/dare to use them.

Three of them are mini roundabouts in Keynsham and after my regular submissions from at least four devices simultaneously (each time a new map came out), they are now on the map. Whether this is due to my several submissions or some other reason, I have no idea - I've never had any acknowledgement of them. Or maybe they have simply been retained and carried forward from my previous mapshare corrections? They show on Streetview now.

51.41816,-2,50437
51.41604,-2.49976
51.41402,-249787

In every case, I added a text comment ... "Mini roundabout, no road reconstruction, only road markings."
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Two of them are obesiting!!

Andy_P · Posted: Thu Apr 12, 2012 8:52 pm Post subject:

PaulB2005 · Posted: Sat Apr 14, 2012 7:45 pm Post subject:

Hmm. All my roundabouts have been rejected!!

mccririck · Posted: Sun Apr 15, 2012 12:48 pm Post subject:

I have submitted a lot of mini roundabouts, but I have wondered if TomTom bother about them as most never seem to change and I have to submit them again every time I get a new map update. It gets tedious.

superplum · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jan 31, 2009 Posts: 14

I'm a forum lurker who uses an "old", but up-to-date, XL Europe occasionally. I understand the frustrations when Mapshare corrections are ignored or take forever but do not understand the problem relating to mini-roundabouts. After all, the satnav is only a routing device; it does not indicate road priorities for drivers. Your eyes and road signs provide that service. What improvement would be gained by showing mini-r'bouts when you can plainly see them? Also, there are no priority roads in the UK, only roads where you are required to give way - its a subtle difference but an important one no-one has priority.

Just an after thought, how many road atlases show mini-r'bouts?

Rolling Eyes

MaFt · Posted: Tue Apr 24, 2012 11:22 pm Post subject:

DennisN · Posted: Wed Apr 25, 2012 7:35 am Post subject:

M8TJT · Posted: Wed Apr 25, 2012 9:29 am Post subject:

And don't you have to give way at give way signs and to traffiic from the right on a roundabout? Is this not 'priority'? What about the sign with red and black cars that says something like' Give way to oncomming traffic' I rest my case.

Privateer · Posted: Wed Apr 25, 2012 12:41 pm Post subject:

Hi superplum,

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