Compass wrong

s2tephen · Occasional Visitor Joined: Aug 26, 2005 Posts: 9

Has anyone else noticed that the compass on the tomtom 500 and also the tomtom 5 nav PPC faces the wrong way. When it is saying say NNE the arrow is is facing NNW and so on .
Is this supposed to be correct or have tomtom got it wrong.

sgould · Frequent Visitor Joined: Oct 05, 2004 Posts: 1320

The GO is right!

The arrow points to the north. The letters show your direction. So, if you drive north, the arrow is straight up. But when you turn left, the north arrow will turn right by the same amount.
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s2tephen · Occasional Visitor Joined: Aug 26, 2005 Posts: 9

I would have thought the arrow should point in the direction you are going which it does not do

Oldboy · Posted: Fri Aug 26, 2005 8:14 pm Post subject:

The Compass Arrow works in the same way that 'ordinary' compasses work.

It is there to tell you in which direction North is. If it pointed in the direction that you're going, it would be duplicating what the map does now.
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sgould · Frequent Visitor Joined: Oct 05, 2004 Posts: 1320

Follow the Prefs to Compass. Choose "North up" I think that will make it work as you expect.
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kartracer · Posted: Fri Aug 26, 2005 10:04 pm Post subject:

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