How long before a 'new' road appears?

Fraserp

So 'how long is a piece of string' ?
A new bypass has been completed around Reims in France. It's been planned for 5 years at least and has been under construction for well over 1 year.
Does anyone have any experience of time lines for 'significant' road constructions?
It's not on the map update I just downloaded for my 920.
Does this appear on any current models?
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PaulB2005 · Posted: Mon Nov 22, 2010 8:31 am Post subject:

Who knows? 5 years ago a new road was added in Epsom to relieve congestion. Tomtom still shows the original planned route. Dispute multiple submissions to correct it the real and significantly differnet route is still not on their maps.* On the other hand changes to the A1 and A3 were added quickly even though some junctions aren't completely accurate.

ETA Update: this has now been corrected in the 860 maps

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gazza70 · Regular Visitor Joined: Feb 28, 2006 Posts: 129

i have also reported a new road where i live;
it has only been open about 3 years and still not showing yet ; i think it's about time tomtom got off there buts and do something about these new roads that are missing and at the end of the day we are the fools who are paying for map updates. (my wife has a navigon and the new road was on there as soon as she did a new map update after it had opened)then they do use navteq.

DennisN · Posted: Mon Nov 22, 2010 2:03 pm Post subject:

I used to know the answer to this one. But since I stopped being 70, I can't remember whether it's this long or that long. Evil or Very Mad

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cooldood · Lifetime Member Joined: May 02, 2010 Posts: 11

I will not be paying for any more map updates, all Tomtom seem to do is add a select few map share corrections to their new maps, I changed loads of wrong speed limits and no left/right turns on my last map, now I have updated they are nearly all back to how they were in the old map, before I changed them.

spook51 · Posted: Mon Nov 22, 2010 8:29 pm Post subject:

I think you have missed the OP's point - he was asking how long it takes for a new road to appear on a map, not why TomTom doesn't include updates from users.

mpwilson99 · Posted: Mon Nov 22, 2010 9:08 pm Post subject:

The new spur roads around the M25 Jn 2 are on the new maps, I dont think they opened that long ago?? ( a year or so? )

However my road built 4 years ago is still not there, and another close I know of is not there built 12 years ago, but this was on v6.75.1322 .

I also noticed that a major error on the A27 has finally been corrected at last - without the use of mapshare!
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PaulB2005 · Posted: Mon Nov 22, 2010 9:11 pm Post subject:

I think the point people are trying to make is that there is no hard and fast rule as to how long it takes. Despite receiving multiple reports they still ignore major errors. On the other hand some make it into the maps before they even happen as I believe happened with a bridge in Scotland recently.

spook51 · Posted: Mon Nov 22, 2010 9:43 pm Post subject:

Does anyone know how Tele Atlas discovers or is advised when a new road opens? How, for example, does a new Scottish bridge appear on a map but not a new bypass round a city in France?

Does Tele Atlas rely on members of the public to notify new roads (not corrections)?

PaulB2005 · Posted: Mon Nov 22, 2010 10:10 pm Post subject:

Who knows?

If I knew I could explain how a road once went in to a pub car park and through a 30 year old brick wall. Or how a road that only ever existed on paper is on the maps but the real 5 year old road is not.

Stampy72 · Posted: Mon Nov 22, 2010 10:31 pm Post subject:

Last time I looked they only had a few streets of the small Township of Hampton in Peterborough on there...

Most of the estate has been there for at least 5 years.

And yet AGAIN I keep adding/correcting local streets around me that I submitted to TT / TeleAtlas for the past 6 years or so.
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Andy_P · Posted: Mon Nov 22, 2010 10:31 pm Post subject:

I'm sure I've read an article in the past explaining how Governments, councils and other road builders feed the information to TeleAtlas, but I can't find anything about it on their website now.

I did find this comment about the MapInsight/MapShare process though:

DennisN · Posted: Tue Nov 23, 2010 12:27 am Post subject:

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