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AlfaIan Occasional Visitor
Joined: Mar 15, 2007 Posts: 2
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Posted: Thu Apr 26, 2007 1:01 pm Post subject: Camera location and direction |
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Sorry if this is in the wrong section.
I'm finding that the speed camera locations are alerting me of camera's on the wrong side of the road which are for traffic going in the other direction. Or even parrall roads.
Is there a way of stopping this?
Device is a tomtom6 on PDA. |
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Privateer Pocket GPS Moderator
Joined: 30/12/2002 17:36:20 Posts: 4916 Location: Oxfordshire, England, UK
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Posted: Thu Apr 26, 2007 2:37 pm Post subject: |
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Hi AlfaIan,
to the forum!
The only was to stop alerts on the other side of the road is to set your TomTom Proximity Alerts and check the "Warn only if POI is on route" box.
NB. If you check the "Warn only if POI is on route" box, then you will not be warned of POIs that you approach if:
1. The POIs are slightly away from the road.
2. You have no destination and therefore no route planned.
You may still be warned of cameras for the opposite direction, when you are on single carriageway roads.
Regards, _________________ Robert.
iPhone 6s Plus, iOS 14.0.1: iOS CamerAlert v2.0.7
TomTom GO Mobile iOS 2.3.1; TomTom (UK & ROI and Europe) iOS apps v1.29
Garmin Camper 770 LMT-D |
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AlfaIan Occasional Visitor
Joined: Mar 15, 2007 Posts: 2
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Posted: Thu Apr 26, 2007 3:19 pm Post subject: |
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So until there is a fix I’ll have to get use to it.
Thanks for the answer |
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desd Regular Visitor
Joined: Jul 01, 2006 Posts: 117
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Posted: Thu Apr 26, 2007 6:42 pm Post subject: |
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I've been having the same problem with my zumo??
I thought it did directional but maybe im wrong _________________ Zumo 500 + 4GB SD Card, car Kit and GTM21
Linked to Autocom by bluetooth and all seems good.
Traffic reception in the central belt of Scotland and hurray NW England seems to be working again. Still a million times better than the Quest 2 it replaces |
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MaFt Pocket GPS Staff
Joined: Aug 31, 2005 Posts: 15226 Location: Bradford, West Yorkshire
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Posted: Thu Apr 26, 2007 10:15 pm Post subject: |
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as far as i am aware, the only units that can use directional data are drivesmart and some of the newer mio units.
also, these are teh only PGPSW downloads that include the heading data.
MaFt |
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Andy_P Pocket GPS Moderator
Joined: Jun 04, 2005 Posts: 19991 Location: West and Southwest London
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Posted: Fri Apr 27, 2007 12:22 pm Post subject: |
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Adding to Privateer's reply:
You WILL get alerts from cameras on the other side of the road (rather than "might").
This is because as far as the TomTom is concerned the whole road is a single route.
The only time you won't (although it still happens ocasionally) is on dual carriageways, which are seen as two seperate routes (look at the colour of the road when you have a route planned).
The other time it happens on dual carriageways (which I find really annoying) is when a camera position - often a mobile site - is positioned on the roundabout off a slip road. These throw up spurious "30" warnings for example, as you are bombing down the motorway. This seems to be a function of the maps (or the way the softwarte interprets them, as it has definitely got worse as I have updated).
It seems as if the whole junction has been included with the main road as part of "the route".
I think you just have to get used to it, until the technology is more sophisticated. |
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desd Regular Visitor
Joined: Jul 01, 2006 Posts: 117
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Posted: Sat Apr 28, 2007 8:25 am Post subject: |
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Im getting alerts on the A90 to Aberdeen for both directions and as dual carriage ways go they dont get much wider _________________ Zumo 500 + 4GB SD Card, car Kit and GTM21
Linked to Autocom by bluetooth and all seems good.
Traffic reception in the central belt of Scotland and hurray NW England seems to be working again. Still a million times better than the Quest 2 it replaces |
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Andy_P Pocket GPS Moderator
Joined: Jun 04, 2005 Posts: 19991 Location: West and Southwest London
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Posted: Mon Apr 30, 2007 9:47 am Post subject: |
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As I said in my last post:
Andy_P2002 wrote: |
The only time you won't (although it still happens ocasionally) |
Unfortunately, we are never likely to be let into the secrets of how the software interacts with the maps, as all the manufacturers will see that as a vital commercial secret.
It also affects how some navigation instructions are a bit wierd - when does a straight road, become a bend, then become a turn, for example. |
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