Route Problems

iyad · Posted: Tue Jun 20, 2006 12:13 pm Post subject: Route Problems

Why do I get the most Ridicules routes? I navigate to a post code and I have TT910 preferance set at the fastest, Iget a route taking me via small country lanes which takes double the time. What I am doing wrong? Please help as it is driving me crazy.

alix776 · Posted: Tue Jun 20, 2006 12:32 pm Post subject:

where is the postcode, is it in a rural area?
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iyad · Posted: Tue Jun 20, 2006 7:11 pm Post subject:

No. I am going say from Epsom in Surrey to Biggin Hill in Kent. Rather than take me on A roads I am directed into a very small lanes

alix776 · Posted: Tue Jun 20, 2006 7:13 pm Post subject:

can you pm me the start and finish pls ill check it with mine
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ukweb · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jun 20, 2006 Posts: 2

I have the same problem: Sad

My Tom Tom is fine for ordinary navigation, but I have a fairly large motorhome and the Tom Tom will insist on sending me down unclassified roads which aren't suitable for a large vehicle.

I have E-mailed TomTom but they haven't really given a logical reply.

What I would like to do is tell the damn thing to stay on A and B roads until close to the destination. There are options to select walking routes (yeh, that will get used a lot) and bicycle routes (ditto), but apparently no option for selecting main roads only.

One suggestion from The Link was to select the route and then go through the route deselecting any unclassified roads, but that would probably take longer than driving there!

Paul

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SpeedCam · Posted: Tue Jun 20, 2006 8:55 pm Post subject:

TomTom's routing has got worse with later versions of software.

V3 allowed you to select the preferred road types, along with the way routes were calculated.

V5 dropped all this and I was very concerned, but luckily the routes generated were still go.

Then comes V6, routing has taken a BIG step backwards, now TomTom believes that central London is a better route than the M25.

I logged a call with TT support and they said an update would improve things, but could not guarantee a fix. Having delt with TT support my 910 was returned until this problem is fixed.

alix776 · Posted: Tue Jun 20, 2006 9:40 pm Post subject:

at the moment yes it is the best that can be acheived this is problem with all satnav that it will take you down what you might term narrow roads this is where the driver has to make a choice between going down a road or checking the route in map mode of the device.

it has to be said that any sat nav is designed primerily for cars only and this is very apparent for tomtom even garmin in truck mode usually produces similar routes to tomtom in limited speed the can be said for iGO as well though my preferance is for iGO's routing at the moment it seams the pick of the bunch

for tomtom if your going to a rural area then there is a good chance that you will get sent down a narrow road
it a driver aid after all

rant over Laughing

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Andy_P · Posted: Wed Jun 21, 2006 12:41 am Post subject:

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I may take mine back for a refund and wait until they work properly

Scarecrow · Posted: Wed Jun 21, 2006 1:18 am Post subject:

The Garmin Nuvi is just as bad. I live in a narrow country lane, and it's about 400 yards to the nearest decent road (a slightly wider country lane). My Nuvi insists on taking me the opposite direction on the really narrow lane, irrespective of where my final destination is.

I even asked it to calculate a route from my house to the not so narrow country lane by the shortest route. You guessed it, it took me in the opposite direction on a round the houses tour, taking 3 miles instead of the 400 yards if it had gone the right way!! Very annoying.

iyad · Posted: Wed Jun 21, 2006 12:41 pm Post subject:

To just explain how stupied this can get. I get to about a mile from my house and TT910 insist to take me for 4 miles tour to get home!

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