Idea for directional alerts on TomTom

[WLMOATE]

Hello

Not sure if this has been suggested before but I have an idea that would result in less false alarms from cameras that are not on the same road. However this would result in exta work for PGPS

Assume we have a straight road. with a gatso in a 30mph limit, if a POI was created 200m before this and the TT set to warn when near POI was enabled for this POI with a warning radius of say 10m to allow for GPS inaccuracy.

Then as you approach this you get a warning , the actual Gatso POI could be shown on the screen but not set to warn
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Wayne

MY-SOS, Benefon TWIG, DriveSmart, Wayfinder

[Oldboy]

It won't work.

As the TT is not directional, if you approach the POI from the other direction, you would have passed the 'wanted' location before you had the "10m" warning.

You would also have double the number of POI categories, and you would have to use the Enable POI Function for up to 30 POIs for the cameras alone. It is well documented that enabling that many would slow down the refresh rate to almost a standstill.

There are other factors, such as what would happen, or not, if you joined the road between the "warning location" and the true location.
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Richard

TT 910 V7.903: Europe Map v1045
TT Via 135 App 12.075: Europe Map v1120

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