This is another classic piece of marketing blurb from TomTom that is all 'puff' and no hard facts.

I already HAVE Google local search on my TomTom PND's (which works well), so is this REPLACING the Google service?

As a quick test I searched for "Fish and Chips" near my home:

Google local serach on my Go940 found 30 results within 4 miles
The TomTom Local Search website found NONE.

I assumed it might not be working at all in the UK, but it did find a single result near a village in Oxford with a similar name to my London district, so it is working.

"Settling in nicely" ;-)

Good to see that they have not been wasting effort on old technology like mapshare or itinerary planning for nav3 devices

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But if you go to the actual TomTom places site you will see that it's not a UK thing, only Belgium, Denmark, Netherlands etc at the moment. One assumes that Google Places is somewhat lacking in these areas? Or simply unavailable to those devices?

I should also add that this was not from a UK press release - hence why there's little to no UK coverage :D

MaFt

Perhaps TT ought to spend more time ensuring that their mapping is more accurate & up to date and that their devices are more up to date as well before disappearing off on a completely different tangent, wasting time & effort like this.

Be alert.. This country needs more lerts.

must agree with wazza - now had my XXL for approx 6 months and allegedly my house does still not exist, even tho i have filed multiple uploads to them, delivery drivers unless local usually ring up saying where the bloody hell are you.

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My TT is sitting in a draw, unloved & unused, gathering dust.

A complete & utter waste of money.

Be alert.. This country needs more lerts.

Worked perfectly for me - and found the results I was expecting, which is good

Then even tried Fish and Chips and my town (just to copy Andy_P) and it brought up all the results it should (and I should know !!!)

So don't know if they have just "switched on" UK or something was amiss when you tried, but quick, effective, comprehensive

Now, where is the update?!!!

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I think you were lucky. Apparently there is only one fish & chip shop in Solihull - that's an awful lot less than I know! ... and when I try "fish and chips" (instead of &), I get the rather strange message

Depends how you enter it. 'fish and chip shop' got one result, 'fish & chip shop' got eight results - all in Chesterfield.

...and now try the same search in Google local search (just enter "Fish and Chips in placename")

"Settling in nicely" ;-)