Correct a Map, Then Win It!

MaFt · Posted: Fri Aug 08, 2008 9:22 am Post subject: Correct a Map, Then Win It!

Sick and tired of submitting over 3 million MapShare corrections? Well, now's your chance to get something back from TomTom! They have just announced a new competition called Change Spotting whereby anyone submitting or using a MapShare correction between now and 23rd September 2008 will be entered in to a weekly draw to win prizes such as their top of the range Go930 or new map downloads. There will also be a grand prize draw at the end of the period where the lucky winner will receive a luxury weekend for two in Amsterdam - the real TomTom Home.

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NickG · Posted: Fri Aug 08, 2008 10:43 am Post subject:

In the last 5 years or so, I must have submitted about 4 or 5 corrections via the TeleAtlas site, TomTom or Mapshare. Not a single one of them has actually been incorporated into the base maps (although obviously if you're using MapShare, your changes will work, but there's only a limited type of corrections you can make via Mapshare at the moment). They're not interested in applying the corrections to the actual base maps and this is highlighted when you see how problematic other Tele Atlas map data is from other sources.

For example, in Winchester they reversed the one-way directions of two streets about 6 years ago, and I've been trying to get it corrected for this entire time - submitting reports to Tele Atlas and TomTom. By default, the new maps still ship with with the one-way direction incorrectly specified (although I'm now one map revision behind on my TomTom). (Eg Parchment Street is now northbound).

Even Google is still showing the wrong one-way designation for the affected roads 6 years after the change happened!

http://maps.google.co.uk/?ie=UTF8&ll=51.06396,-1.313059&spn=0.005043,0.009656&z=17

It might be worth submitting changes if you get to win a TomTom, but don't submit changes expecting them to be incorporated in any future maps you buy because they probably won't Sad

Andy_P · Posted: Fri Aug 08, 2008 11:43 am Post subject:

Well said Nick...
What's especially galling in this competition is that you will win a map that you will then have to put the same changes into all over again!

dhn · Posted: Fri Aug 08, 2008 11:55 am Post subject:

And, as usual, we in the 'colonies' don't get to enter the contest ... Crying or Very sad

NickG · Posted: Fri Aug 08, 2008 12:06 pm Post subject:

I've just checked the Tele Atlas "Map Insight" page where you report problems and all of the problems I've been reporting in the last 5-6 years are all still there! Including the incorrect one-way example I've described above!

Unbelievable! They've even got a really patronising video now describing what happens when you report a problem, which is clearly a load of Censored

as I've never seen them fix a single problem in the whole time I've been using Tele Atlas map data!

I'm no longer going to waste my time reporting problems in Tele Atlas map data.

Perhaps someone at PGPSW who has contacts at Tele Atlas can ask them why all the corrections are ignored and why so many people on these forums seem to have been reporting the same problems for years and they're still uncorrected.

DennisN · Posted: Fri Aug 08, 2008 1:39 pm Post subject:

dhn · Posted: Fri Aug 08, 2008 1:49 pm Post subject:

DennisN · Posted: Fri Aug 08, 2008 2:02 pm Post subject:

Well, sort of, but her hair will have gone grey or white by now. Sad

I may be going through Holland next year, so I'll try to remember to look out for a fresh one for you.
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Darren · Posted: Fri Aug 08, 2008 2:06 pm Post subject:

DennisN · Posted: Fri Aug 08, 2008 2:15 pm Post subject:

I wonder if perhaps they only do verifying by those fancy vans? I just submitted a correction saying to delete a roundabout which isn't there. It never has been there and it WASN'T on one of the previous maps. The road hasn't changed, so all they need is some nice cooperative whitevanman, or almostAudimetallicsilvervanman (to whom they'll pay a very large small fortune) to go look and then come back to say "Correct, no roundabout". There must be loads of that type of correction which don't need the heavy handed technobus. Could keep a vanman gainfully occupied for quite some time. Maybe somebody could tell them (and give them a hint as to where they might find a vanman of calibre and handsome). Razz

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If it tastes good - it's fattening.

Two of them are obesiting!!

Darren · Posted: Fri Aug 08, 2008 2:17 pm Post subject:

Gawd know. I visited my brother-in-law's recently and a mini roundabout has mysteriously appeared on the v8 map where no roundabout has ever existed. It's always been a T-Junction.

I've reported it but you have to wonder how these errors get there in the first place Confused

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NickG · Posted: Fri Aug 08, 2008 2:26 pm Post subject:

I don't see why they need to send anyone out at all. Most of the time you can SEE there's no roundabout by just looking at aerial photos on the web.

If more than 2-3 people report the same problem, it should go straight through without any further verification.

I wonder if TomTom send the MapShare corrections back to Tele Atlas?

In fact, using my example again, you can see in the live.com aerial photos that the road (Parchment St) is clearly one way in the northbound direction from the arrows painted on the road you can see in the aerial pics. They have no excuses!

SEE HERE
(note on live.com the arrows are correct anyway as they obviously don't use Tele Atlas!).

Edit DennisN to tidy the link.

stuart · Posted: Fri Aug 08, 2008 2:39 pm Post subject:

NickG · Posted: Fri Aug 08, 2008 3:14 pm Post subject:

DennisN · Posted: Fri Aug 08, 2008 3:20 pm Post subject:

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