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Topic: French & Swiss cameras |
cloggienl
Replies: 23
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Forum: TomTom Portable Navigation Devices Posted: Sat Mar 16, 2013 9:36 am Subject: French & Swiss cameras |
One more thing to watch out for in France are the new camera cars. They actually take speed measurements and video while driving.
Luckily they are all black Meganes as far as I can see. So if you s ... |
Topic: French & Swiss cameras |
cloggienl
Replies: 23
Views: 11110
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Forum: TomTom Portable Navigation Devices Posted: Wed Mar 06, 2013 7:49 pm Subject: French & Swiss cameras |
Slightly off topic but have TomTom reinstated notify when near POIs in France? That was disabled which is why the speed camera database didn't give an audible and visual warning plus any other POIs on ... |
Topic: French & Swiss cameras |
cloggienl
Replies: 23
Views: 11110
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Forum: TomTom Portable Navigation Devices Posted: Wed Mar 06, 2013 10:38 am Subject: French & Swiss cameras |
I live in France and I haven't heard of anyone getting checked. As far as I know, the gendarmerie or police is not allowed to look in your satnav anyway but customs (douane) is.
I suspect that they ... |
Topic: Experience with Garmin and TomTom |
cloggienl
Replies: 8
Views: 4959
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Forum: Beginners GPS Lounge Posted: Sun Mar 03, 2013 9:41 am Subject: Experience with Garmin and TomTom |
I forgot to mention a couple of handy functions the Garmin has that the TT hasn't.
-delete route from the main screen. With the TT you have to press a few buttons to get there.
-height above sea lev ... |
Topic: Experience with Garmin and TomTom |
cloggienl
Replies: 8
Views: 4959
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Forum: Beginners GPS Lounge Posted: Fri Mar 01, 2013 4:02 pm Subject: Re: Experience with Garmin and TomTom |
For the spirited drivers that use their devices for predicting corners and how fast to enter a bend on unknown roads, the TT is definitely better, both in 3d and 2d view. The Garmin display is not a ... |
Topic: Experience with Garmin and TomTom |
cloggienl
Replies: 8
Views: 4959
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Forum: Beginners GPS Lounge Posted: Fri Mar 01, 2013 3:47 pm Subject: Experience with Garmin and TomTom |
Yes, navigating to a street in a city abroad is fine, however when going to a town without having a street address is different. When pressing the 'towns' button there is not a country choice. But ... |
Topic: Experience with Garmin and TomTom |
cloggienl
Replies: 8
Views: 4959
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Forum: Beginners GPS Lounge Posted: Fri Mar 01, 2013 2:39 pm Subject: Experience with Garmin and TomTom |
I am sorry if I offended you with my opinions...
Yes, navigating to a street in a city abroad is fine, however when going to a town without having a street address is different. When pressing the ' ... |
Topic: Experience with Garmin and TomTom |
cloggienl
Replies: 8
Views: 4959
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Forum: Beginners GPS Lounge Posted: Fri Mar 01, 2013 1:33 pm Subject: Experience with Garmin and TomTom |
Well, I have used both my ageing TomTom 730 and a new Garmin 2595LMT side by side for a few months and around 20K miles.
Unfortunately, I have decided to go back to my old TomTom, well not my old 7 ... |
Topic: Problems with camera warnings in France |
cloggienl
Replies: 25
Views: 10168
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Forum: TomTom Portable Navigation Devices Posted: Wed Dec 19, 2012 11:09 am Subject: Solution |
Well, after buying a Garmin, I have just found a solution to the problem of missing camera warnings in France for the TT Go X20-X30.
The problem seems to lie in the navcore. If using a navcore newer ... |
Topic: Problems with camera warnings in France |
cloggienl
Replies: 25
Views: 10168
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Forum: TomTom Portable Navigation Devices Posted: Tue Oct 02, 2012 7:39 pm Subject: Problems with camera warnings in France |
Does the device boot if you leave an 'empty' borders.dat file?
MaFt
No, goes into a continuous start -up loop... |
Topic: Problems with camera warnings in France |
cloggienl
Replies: 25
Views: 10168
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Forum: TomTom Portable Navigation Devices Posted: Tue Oct 02, 2012 4:52 pm Subject: Problems with camera warnings in France |
Frhed does show a whole list of hex-decimal in borders.dat, but as I am not a programmer, I have no idea of how to translate this into something that I can understand.
Is there anyone here that knows ... |
Topic: Problems with camera warnings in France |
cloggienl
Replies: 25
Views: 10168
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Forum: TomTom Portable Navigation Devices Posted: Tue Oct 02, 2012 6:08 am Subject: Problems with camera warnings in France |
Is there a program to look at these TomTom DAT files in a better way than with notebook, so that they make some sense? |
Topic: Problems with camera warnings in France |
cloggienl
Replies: 25
Views: 10168
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Forum: TomTom Portable Navigation Devices Posted: Tue Oct 02, 2012 6:01 am Subject: Problems with camera warnings in France |
I wonder if you can simply create an empty borders.dat file? Open up Notepad, leave it empty and save as borders.dat (make sure to select 'file type: all files' otherwise you might end up with a fil ... |
Topic: Problems with camera warnings in France |
cloggienl
Replies: 25
Views: 10168
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Forum: TomTom Portable Navigation Devices Posted: Mon Oct 01, 2012 10:33 am Subject: Problems with camera warnings in France |
Well, it doesn't like the borders.dat file being removed. It reboots continually after removal... |
Topic: Problems with camera warnings in France |
cloggienl
Replies: 25
Views: 10168
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Forum: TomTom Portable Navigation Devices Posted: Mon Oct 01, 2012 10:18 am Subject: Problems with camera warnings in France |
When driving into France, a warning was given for the first camera near Mulhouse, after that nothing. The icons for the cameras on the map were displayed, but no warning given.
I wonder if TomTom has ... |
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