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unclebill · Regular Visitor Joined: Nov 19, 2004 Posts: 62

Hi Trev .
You have to disable the speed cameras as well , keep the" warn when near poi " on , you will still get the icon and sound as you come up to the cam.

Masked-Marauder · Regular Visitor Joined: Aug 18, 2005 Posts: 89

spook51 · Posted: Sun Oct 09, 2005 9:35 pm Post subject:

Skippy · Posted: Sun Oct 09, 2005 10:35 pm Post subject:

lupos0_1 · Posted: Sun Oct 09, 2005 11:07 pm Post subject:

Thats the point I was trying to make Skippy Laughing

Maybe tomtom should call their next version 'Autopilot, for those without a driving licence' Rolling Eyes

alan_m · Regular Visitor Joined: Jun 25, 2005 Posts: 73

Masked-Marauder · Regular Visitor Joined: Aug 18, 2005 Posts: 89

Some of the replies on this thread make me wonder who some of the people replying work for......

So let me get this right, It is fine that a £500 product works pretty much OK, because nothing is perfect? So what if it only gets you close to where you want to be, your driving the car!

Navigator tells me "You have reached your destination as I stop on my drive, which is stunningly accurate, but I know where I live. If I need to find a street in Glasgow I want it to tell me how to get there from where I come off the motorway, not take me to the next road along because thats close enough. If I don't know the area, how do I know it is the next road along?

Anyone live in Hogsfare Road in Burnam near Slough? It takes them round the block to get to their front door, but at least it would get them there!

I have only had Navigator for just over a month and of the few dozen routes I have used it on it has always been close, but not accurate. Indeed one place I went to I struggled with because the road was not where it was supposed to be, I still found it by carrying on another 300 yards until I found it. I asked the homeowner I spoke to about it and it got changed SEVEN years ago. So the map is only just out of date then.

Lets face it, we pay for a premium product, we should at least expect it to work.

lupos0_1 · Posted: Mon Oct 10, 2005 3:17 pm Post subject:

Absolutely Masked-Marauder,

You make some good points but these issues are to do with the map not the actual tomtom product. You can't blame tomtom for something they have not made. If everyone stopped having a go at tomtom and started complaining to Teleatlas (the company responsible for these errors) then maybe things will improve in the future.

I understand that people are annoyed with tomtom because 'thats who I bought it off' but using that argument is like blaming T- Mobile because Samsung phones are Censored

I have actually been using tomtom for just over a year now and it has always got me to my destination within 100yards Clap

Must be lucky I guess.

I still maintain that tomtom is the market leader and would challenge anybody to compete with it using a road map!!!!! Laughing

raptorheli2 · Occasional Visitor Joined: Aug 03, 2005 Posts: 33

satnav is an aid imo. if you listen to it all the time you will be in trouble (i found out the hard way with a 70 mile detour).

how can the a-z maps be updated more often then these maps? surely they all come from the same maps deep down?????. altough i would expect them to print the newer maps when production allows. unfortunetely satnav is once a year ticket at best with the maps they are using i guess being about a further year behind with the time it takes to program the satnav software.

the difference with the a-z is it doesn't tell you one way roads, quickest route etc etc. this is what you buy satnav for imo. in a perfect world ofcourse it will be 100% accurate but the rate in which our local councils see as fit to change our roads means no one can be expected to keep up. as someone has already said, this would be possible with expensive updates and realistically there would be very few takers.

cheers

Masked-Marauder · Regular Visitor Joined: Aug 18, 2005 Posts: 89

I would have thought that it would be simpler to update a paper map actually, as it only covers a local area, not the whole of Europe....

lupos0_1 · Posted: Mon Oct 10, 2005 4:47 pm Post subject:

I think thats what raptorheli2 meant

howardr · Occasional Visitor Joined: Mar 01, 2005 Posts: 40

Why can't they just make the maps configurable by the user. That way you can keep your own maps up to date as you discover new roads etc. until the next version becomes available.

You could also use resources such as this one to share the updates - assuming you trust the people who are contributing.

Just an idea - maybe too complex?

There must be someone out there who can build a user interface into these maps surely? (you'd make a bloomin' fortune!)
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unclebill · Regular Visitor Joined: Nov 19, 2004 Posts: 62

unclebill · Regular Visitor Joined: Nov 19, 2004 Posts: 62

If you read the PocketGPSworld report on the August visit to TeleAtlas , you will find lots of information about digital map creation.

Tim Buxton · Posted: Mon Oct 10, 2005 8:32 pm Post subject:

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