Tomtom's own camera database for £35 pa; better than this?

Nigel-DV · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jan 07, 2006 Posts: 29

Hi all

I'm a member around here and regularly download the pocketgpsworld speed camera database for Tomtom.

Just about to buy a new Tomtom, more up-to-date model. Have just noticed that Tomtom have their own speed cam database for £35 per year.

Is it better, worse or same as the downloads available here?

PaulB2005 · Posted: Sat Oct 17, 2009 3:46 pm Post subject:

TomToms database is worse.

There is a list of things to consider here

Nigel-DV · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jan 07, 2006 Posts: 29

That works for me. Thanks.

jrohomon · Lifetime Member Joined: Feb 16, 2009 Posts: 13

Not by a long shot, this database is awesome.

DennisN · Posted: Mon Oct 19, 2009 3:55 pm Post subject:

In fairness to TomTom, I think you'll find their database is not £35 a year - that's probably a combination of GPRS Traffic (via a bluetooth linked phone if you can get a phone to link by bluetooth!) and cameras. Neither of them are worth it, in my opinion. The traffic is not very reliable and the cameras are a joke. Have a read around THIS to get a feeling about them.

If you're thinking about a new model, you may get one of the LIVE devices which come with a 3 month free trial of the Live services, including HD Traffic (which looks good, but again in my opinion, not worth paying the price they ask) and cameras which are no good. After the trial ends, it's a subscription service at about £8 a month
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SpikeyMikey · Posted: Mon Oct 19, 2009 4:22 pm Post subject:

M8TJT · Posted: Mon Oct 19, 2009 8:07 pm Post subject:

keithjeffrey · Posted: Mon Oct 19, 2009 8:11 pm Post subject:

I would'nt use TomToms speed camera database if they were giving me £ 35 per year.......................it's a load of pony Mad

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DennisN · Posted: Mon Oct 19, 2009 10:03 pm Post subject:

MaFt · Posted: Mon Oct 19, 2009 10:39 pm Post subject:

DennisN · Posted: Mon Oct 19, 2009 11:01 pm Post subject:

MaFt · Posted: Mon Oct 19, 2009 11:36 pm Post subject:

p'raps not then fella!!!

SpikeyMikey · Posted: Tue Oct 20, 2009 5:34 am Post subject:

mjdj1689 · Regular Visitor Joined: Mar 03, 2006 Posts: 132

I do have tom tom hd traffic, and the speed camera database is rubbish. I travel between Manchester and Bristol each week, and there are 6 lots of spec cameras and roadworks on the route. And tomtoms only shows 2 sets of specs on the roadworks and half the cameras are not shown anyway.

There is one part on the m5 around junction 8 where there were speed cameras 3 months ago and it still warns me to go 50 mph to this day. The thing is you do get traffic warnings for roadwoks on the m5 but it just does not show the specs cameras.

And on A roads a lot of the cameras are missing to , and also when the cameras work in both directions on a A road tomtom does not show this, so I marked this 3 times onto the tomtoms database like you can on the 940, but it was never shown by tomtom on their database.

At least Pocket gps database works and is always upto date. Why do tomtom use Roadangel instead of pocket gps, I wonder why its so out of date and I wonder what roadangels own devices are like.

One more thing is what do garmin use and how is their database compared to tomtoms.

MaFt · Posted: Wed Oct 21, 2009 11:51 am Post subject:

garmin use cyclops. from past experience i'm not allowed to comment on their database as we got a snotty email a while back when i mentioned it's failings in a review i did...

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