TT5 = awful?

tomo1340 · Posted: Wed Mar 08, 2006 9:15 pm Post subject:

When travelling along the A65 from Oxenholme to Kendal you come to a roundabout by ASDA, the first exit takes you up a road which is apparantly no access for motor vehicles, the second exit being straight on towards Kendal and the 3rd exit being into ASDA. It tells you to take the 1st exit but the map clearly shows you taking the second exit. I know this is because the road is closed to motor vehicles but it can be very confusing.

Also, travelling from Carnforth to Burton you come to a roundabout where the 1st exit takes you towards Kendal, the second takes you to Burton and the third takes you into a caravan park. The second exit is more of about 2 or 3 O'Clock if you imagine the roundabout to be a clock face but the instructions tell you to 'turn around where possible' whereas the map shows you driving over the roundabout and taking the second exit.

These two errors and the fact they have the name of my Street wrong are the only two problems I have encountered and I use it everyday for work.
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goof · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jan 24, 2006 Posts: 10

Bazzer · Posted: Thu Mar 09, 2006 12:01 am Post subject:

What Lost Property says about not including roads closed to traffic. I assume he means the roads that are shown as white & purple dashed lines on the map screen.

What I don't understand is that most of these roads (in my experience) ARE open to traffic and should form part of the navigation instruction.

If not, then what is the point of actually having them on the map ?

However, it seems to be contradictory because there is an instance where there is a road closed to traffic (which is a very short road leading into a pub car park), which is 20 yds before a T-Junction. In this example, TT instructs me to take the 2nd left. So it actually counts this road as valid.

So, why not the road in my roundabout example.

Very confusing.

Baz
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Border_Collie · Posted: Thu Mar 09, 2006 1:27 am Post subject:

Bazzer · Posted: Thu Mar 09, 2006 2:04 am Post subject:

What is important is what you physically see on the ground and relating the instruction to what is actually there. And not what TomTom or Tele Atlas think exists or not.

So, if a roundabout has 4 exits, the fact that 2 of them may go into retail parks is irrelevant. There are still 4 exits, no matter how much you want to imagine there are only 2 Exclamation

Still confused

Baz
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goof · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jan 24, 2006 Posts: 10

In my instance all the roundabout roads are 'proper' accessible roads.
Also, when I'm approaching this 3 lane, 5 exit roundabout it is not practical to have to 2nd guess the TT5 and view the OSD whilst actually driving round this busy roundabout.

Border_Collie · Posted: Thu Mar 09, 2006 7:09 pm Post subject:

Looks like it's

MarkHewitt · Posted: Fri Mar 10, 2006 10:15 am Post subject:

tonyO · Occasional Visitor Joined: Mar 13, 2006 Posts: 1

I've just joined the forum because I have used TT3 for some years in the UK, but now the maps are getting too much out of date, so I'm looking for a replacement system. I borrowed TT5 to try it out but found it to be less useable than an old fashioned paper map, its almost uncontrollable because the menus are so poor. Does anyone know of a system / Navigator that is as contollable as TT3 and does what you tell it to do ?

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