PRESS RELEASE: TomTom Launches Navigator 3

iancjc · Posted: Fri Mar 19, 2004 1:36 pm Post subject:

Its not just a british thing re the maps the French autoroute (A20?? I think) that by-passes Cahor isn't in ttn2 despite mostly having been built and finished for 5 years - only the final link section was finished in 2003.

The real trouble for tomtom is no matter how good the operation of the program the data will make or break it. I live on a "new" housing estate with a school etc on it and the road doesn't exist in ttn2 - the school opened in 1998 - so 6 years on and it still hasn't been properly mapped - but the bloody road isn't shown on multimap either so my guess won't be in tomtom3 either (good job I know where it is!).

What we tend to forget is 3 years ago we mostly used a road atlas and then followed directions given by the people or company we were visiting.

Re the toll road missing what would we have been shouting if the road hadn't opened on time and was included and then tomtom tried to route you via a non finished road.

To be honest it isn't perfect but to have virtually every street in europe accessable on a device weighing 140g is good enough for me. Whilst I'm still required to drive my car I think I will still be able to resist following ttn blindly.

st1967 · Lifetime Member Joined: Nov 28, 2003 Posts: 189

NMatthew · Posted: Fri Mar 19, 2004 1:44 pm Post subject:

I am happy for you that TTN works "overwhelmingly OK" for you. And, of course, you are right, mostly it does do OK. For me, there is a bit too much "off piste" at present and it looks to continue pretty much unchanged with TTN3.

I think a "health warning" for pedants might be in order: Confused

"TTN2 is based on data available as at December 2002, so that means roads as old as September 2002 or earlier might not be present in case you were thinking they might be, and do not even begin to wonder about updates between major versions, in fact even the newest version will miss major roads over a year old". Then we'd know what we were buying.

Neil

chris.hevey · Posted: Fri Mar 19, 2004 2:28 pm Post subject:

Despite my tongue-in-cheek post just now, which was not entirely serious, I think Neil's absolutely right to have the expectations he does. Frankly it is total crap for them to say the data was of Oct 03 vintage when it missed out such a vital road as the M6 Toll, which if my ageing brain serves me well, was open then? I know that the kind of people who are posting in here are are capable of using the common sense I was hinting at, but I also know there are people out there who'll just wander into Dixons or somewhere and buy a "ready to go" who will be totally confused by the whole thing - and half the time will think it's their fault!

With the kind of technology that's around these days there's no technical excuse why it should take a year to 18 months to get the data to us(believe me, I know about these things.) It's probably more around commercial and copyright issues that have to be sorted or just plain corporate idleness and inertia. Once upon a time we would have had bottlenecks like waiting for the Ordnance Survey to process the data because their 72Mb RAM mainframe only had a total of 256 Gb online disk storage and it would cost them half a million to add another 100. How much does a 250Gb disk cost now even at PC World? £200?

However, from my personal point of view I think the 49 euros (35 quid?) is worth it just to bring the mapping (mostly) into the 21st century. Mind you, I only used to update my paper road atlas when the front cover finally parted company from the rest of the book.....

NigelG · Occasional Visitor Joined: Mar 19, 2004 Posts: 1

The new traffic feature will be ideal with an O2 XDA or T-Mobile equivalent as they have built in GPRS Smile

SimonCatlin · Posted: Fri Mar 19, 2004 4:35 pm Post subject:

Nick412 · Posted: Fri Mar 19, 2004 5:30 pm Post subject:

wow im sitting here thinking to myself.......... all this about not using a mobile phone whilst driving, and now with the help of tomtom drivers will be tapping on screens and waving their mobiles around for good gprs connections.. Laughing Out Loud

Anything more to fiddle with whilst driving and i see a new PDA legislation coming out Sad

at least when we could use our mobile phones our eyes were on the road, not looking at how fantastic our 3D Maps are looking :D

TomTom Go hopefully might have built in gprs and gps... anyone confirm.?

Cheers
Nick
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phinea · Occasional Visitor Joined: 05/09/2003 11:54:40 Posts: 35

Will the new map fit on my 128MB CF card which has just 17.5MB free at the moment (with TTN2 GB map data & POI and UK postcode dbs)?

chris.hevey

Dave · Posted: Fri Mar 19, 2004 7:42 pm Post subject:

Dave · Last edited by Dave on Fri Mar 19, 2004 8:41 pm; edited 1 time in total

The PocketGPSWorld.com team spent quite some time at CeBit, and met with a lot of companies including the staff at TomTom and took a list of questions.

We'll share some of these questions a little later, but one of the questions people were obviously asking in our forums were "Is the M6 toll road supported ?".

The team posed this question to TomTom and the answer we received was "No". So there you are, from the horses mouth (so to speak!).

BrianA · Posted: Fri Mar 19, 2004 8:31 pm Post subject: Re: M6 Toll Road, Not Supported!

technik · Posted: Fri Mar 19, 2004 8:34 pm Post subject: Re: TTN3

Dave · Posted: Fri Mar 19, 2004 8:42 pm Post subject:

'fraid not Brian Crying or Very sad

anglefire · Posted: Fri Mar 19, 2004 9:47 pm Post subject: Re: M6 Toll Road, Not Supported!

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