Who's taken an updated TomTom around Bradford recently?

Rouchie · Occasional Visitor Joined: Oct 19, 2006 Posts: 13

Hi all,

I recently used my TomTom 300 around Bradford (West Yorkshire), only to find that after a couple of year's worth of constuction, many of the main roads have all been re-routed around/through the city.

You can imagine my joy as John Cleese's voice bellowed at me to constantly turn round as the map desperately tried to guess at where I actually was...! Blood-pressure-tastic!

So my question - do the latest map updates include the new road system around Bradford?

Given (in my opinion) the high price of the updated maps, and the number of complaints on this forum that many errors still persist, I'm trying to determine whether it's actually safe to buy them or not!

Any comments appreciated!

DennisN · Posted: Fri Oct 20, 2006 8:51 pm Post subject:

"The latest map updates" haven't happened yet - since maybe April 2005.
The latest map updates are due ...
"Second Quarter 2006"
"Third Quarter 2006"
"Soon"
"By the end of the year"
These are the progressive promises or forecasts from Tom Tom. Whatever you do, DO NOT buy a map upgrade just now, because there's a new one due "shortly" (or "longly" depending on how much reliance you place on Tom Tom's forecasts).
Even when the new ones come out, I wouldn't like to bet on the Bradford two year old new construction being included - too new probably. Get whatsername (his wife) to give John Cleese a bit of a whack to shut up!

Rouchie · Occasional Visitor Joined: Oct 19, 2006 Posts: 13

alix776 · Posted: Sat Oct 21, 2006 10:09 am Post subject:

the map charges relate to the license fee charged by teleatlas to tomtom you have have to remember that both of the these companies are businesses and there aim is to make money

collating the map data is very time consuming and expensive also the time the conversion of th teleatlas data to tomtoms format takes time and this is also expensive.

i dont think that digital mapping will come down very much in the near future but over the long term it may.

you only have to look at topographical maps my full coverage in 1:50 of the the uk including northern sclotland was over 150 pounds and that was a with a show discount thye were doning on the day so a uk map for tomtom is a faily good deal at the moment
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Rouchie · Occasional Visitor Joined: Oct 19, 2006 Posts: 13

DennisN · Posted: Sat Oct 21, 2006 7:58 pm Post subject:

Here's a quote from Tom Tom website as at today, support page, answer to Question 3 about map updates :-

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