HD Traffic range reduced AGAIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

matthewj · Frequent Visitor Joined: Apr 03, 2006 Posts: 751

Blimey, this thread has gone back a long way. TomTom are winning in their "ignore it and we'll go away" strategy.

As I posted at http://discussions.tomtom.com/t5/LIVE-Services-HD-Traffic-and/HD-Traffic-Reduced-Range-UK-amp-EU-Unacceptable/td-p/107377/highlight/false/page/38, with just a hint of over-enthusiastic sarcasm, TomTom are doing some big splash on HD Traffic in a webinar.

I get notified of new posts, but when I go to see them there is usually only half of what I've been told about, so they are obviously moderating like crazy (hence me always being enthusiastic). I shall try to attend the session, and perhaps ask about the range.

Link to webinar http://automotive.tomtom.com/leadership/webinars

spook51 · Posted: Fri Apr 20, 2012 1:00 pm Post subject:

I've been notified of three new posts on that thread and there are..... 3 (at the time of writing) so no moderating from my evidence. It'll be interesting to learn what the 'hot news' on Traffic is.

Andy_P · Posted: Fri Apr 20, 2012 2:17 pm Post subject:

I did a check on HD traffic on NAV3 TomTom models last week...

From my home in West London, I was seeing traffic problems as far north as Birmingham and Leicester which was about 97 miles or 156km to the furthest one as the crow flies. Here's a pic from a GO 1005:

I was pleasantly surprised by that!
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matthewj · Frequent Visitor Joined: Apr 03, 2006 Posts: 751

I'd be interested to know if that distance persisted. I had a good five minutes of showing Birmingham traffic a while back, from Kendal (normally only see Manchester), before the TomTom clipped the wings and returned to short range.

It is just possible that TomTom are varying the distance according to the volume of traffic. Given that we know it must be a value coming from the servers, they could "easily" vary it so that if there is heavy traffic they cut it down, and if light, then allow longer range. I'm not sure if I'd like that, but might if it varied according to traffic in your area (so London at a standstill didn't stop me seeing Birmingham if no other traffic in the North).

Antoeknee · Lifetime Member Joined: Jul 29, 2005 Posts: 267

Just checked my 550 and Live range is still usual 80 miles or so.

Also received email from TT asking for feedback on Live services.

JaguarV12e · Posted: Sat Apr 21, 2012 7:24 pm Post subject:

Andy_P · Posted: Sun Apr 22, 2012 11:43 pm Post subject:

DennisN · Posted: Mon Apr 23, 2012 7:29 pm Post subject:

Might this be the much promised upgrade to HD Traffic on Nav 3 models, namely the inclusion of roadworks for a greater distance?

Andy_P · Posted: Tue Apr 24, 2012 4:40 pm Post subject:

DennisN · Posted: Tue Apr 24, 2012 8:49 pm Post subject:

Now here's a curiosity (screen shots a couple of hours ago) which I see on my GO550 Live, App 9.430, map 885 - I pick up traffic in Birmingham, but nothing in London.

By my rough estimation, London, Birmingham and Bristol are pretty much an equilateral triangle, so if one point can see another, it should see both other points. Yet your screen shots show nothing at Bristol and mine don't ever show anything at London. Would you say Bristol area is within the 95-100 mile band you have for Birmingham? Microsoft Autoroute Express calculates M4 from start to Junction 24 at Newport as 125 driving miles, probably crow 100-110?

Bristol area is currently very well blessed with motorway roadworks, average speed cameras and lane closures, has been for months and will continue for many more, so not the odd fly-by-night thing. It would have been narrow and closed lanes, nose to tail, from 4pm to 6pm today as usual, all round the M4/M5 crossroads, when you took your shots.

Interestingly, I can see Birmingham and Plymouth, both of which actually appear to be slightly further away than London.

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Andy_P · Posted: Tue Apr 24, 2012 11:50 pm Post subject:

Furthest west for me tonight is roadworks at Chicklade near Shaftsbury on the A303 (furthest end is 83 miles from home according to the on-screen markers) and roadworks and lane closures around Swindon on the M4 (where the furthest end from me is around 65 miles as the crow flies). Nothing as far as Bath or Bristol.

South it has incidents as far as the coast at Poole and Portsmouth.
And South east to Brighton, Hastings and Ashford, but not as far as Dover.

So just maybe they ARE doing it on approximate travel time rather than distance? (Quicker to get to Birmingham than Bristol?)
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