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TomTom 720 and traveling via dover
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PostPosted: Mon Jun 08, 2009 6:14 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

mikealder wrote:
Plan the trip in two parts, the first leg takes you to the port, the second leg routes you once you get off the boat - Mike


That's the easiest way around it. Plan two legs, and if you need the total mileage, just add the two distances up!
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PostPosted: Mon Jun 08, 2009 8:16 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

andy-c1 wrote:
surely if you travel via the ramp exit it should work right ..I havn't tried it but i can't see it not working ,or even try via point on map


Yeah, that's what I thought until I tried it..... Wink

Try it yourself and see!
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PostPosted: Mon Jun 08, 2009 9:05 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Seems like this is an on going issue !!!!!!! one thing though if you choose not to travel via the tunnel it takes you to the ferry at ramsgate ??????? but will not see dover why oh why i dont know
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PostPosted: Mon Jun 08, 2009 10:03 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Bit of a lottery isn't it? I selected Find Alternative, then Avoid Part of Route and chose the tunnel. It gave me Poole to Cherbourg. Laughing
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PostPosted: Tue Jun 09, 2009 8:48 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Sounds as though someone in Dover has upset TomTom so it wants everyone to avoid that route. Joker I don't have my device with me but I wonder what happens if you try to plan a route from Dover to Calais avoiding the tunnel.
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PostPosted: Tue Jun 09, 2009 9:14 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

It gets better if I force it to route via the Dover Bolougne ferry it takes me via the Chunnel to Frehun then a short drive to the Ferry at Calais, over to Dover, then back over to Boulogne.
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PostPosted: Tue Jun 09, 2009 4:04 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Calomax wrote:
Sounds as though someone in Dover has upset TomTom so it wants everyone to avoid that route. Joker I don't have my device with me but I wonder what happens if you try to plan a route from Dover to Calais avoiding the tunnel.


Have you ever been to Dover? I cant blame TT for not wanting to go through Dover!!!!
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PostPosted: Tue Jun 09, 2009 6:12 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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Have you ever been to Dover? I cant blame TT for not wanting to go through Dover!!!!
Gladly no, my ferry route is Guernsey to St Malo. I'm really envious of some of the fares I see advertised though.
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PostPosted: Tue Jun 09, 2009 7:12 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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Have you ever been to Dover? I cant blame TT for not wanting to go through Dover!!!!
Gladly no, my ferry route is Guernsey to St Malo. I'm really envious of some of the fares I see advertised though.


I did go over a few weeks ago and almost made a profit with the 6 bottles of free wine though! Not the best wine in the world though...
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PostPosted: Tue Jun 09, 2009 7:47 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Will it choose the ferry if you do the route and then from "Avoid part of route" and then choose the tunnel?

I must try when I get hame.
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PostPosted: Tue Jun 09, 2009 8:43 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

All you've got to do is tell it to avoid part of the route, ie Folkstone-Calais.
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PostPosted: Tue Jun 09, 2009 10:39 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

See my post about 7 entries up - I got it to avoid the tunnel easily enough. But I was navigating from Bristol, so Poole to Cherbourg seemed more obvious. If I'd been serious, I'd then have tried to make that route go via Dover and see what happened. Trouble is, it's a heck of a long route to calculate, sits here churning away and I'm just too impatient to keep trying the various combinations!
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PostPosted: Tue Jun 09, 2009 10:44 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I always put in Dock Exit Road and never had a problem YET

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PostPosted: Wed Jun 10, 2009 7:27 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I can Navigate to the exit point in Dover. I can Navigate from the exit point in Dover on to street in the docks in Boulogne and from that point to my destination but it will not do this is one trip. Anyway it is not of much interest to me as the fast-cat Dover-Boulogne route I use is from the Western Docks not the Eastern that TT shows.
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PostPosted: Wed Jun 10, 2009 7:57 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

[quote="MrT" Anyway it is not of much interest to me as the fast-cat Dover-Boulogne route I use is from the Western Docks not the Eastern that TT shows.[/quote]

Not anymore I'm afraid, they went bust some time ago, and LD lines are using eastern docks. Western docks is due for redevelopment.
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