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London routing - map errors and rubbish routing!

 
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uk89camaro
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PostPosted: Mon Apr 08, 2013 12:04 am    Post subject: London routing - map errors and rubbish routing! Reply with quote

I have driven in London many times (leisure mainly), but was massively frustrated this weekend by crap routing, and wanted to know if London members had filed "map errors" or not.

I was driving around Picadilly +/- 5 blocks in all directions, and was on more than one occasion in the same trip, directed up a one way street, or to turn right where that was not permitted.

Absolute rubbish!

I didn't have time to mark the errors, but shirley there must be enough people on here that live/travel in that area, to upload those map errors?

p.s. My Jag sat nav was equally Censored Edited by DennisN - funny spelling may beat the auto censor, but not me. Don't do it please.
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PostPosted: Mon Apr 08, 2013 9:19 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

What version of the maps are you using?
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PostPosted: Mon Apr 08, 2013 9:29 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

matthewj wrote:
What version of the maps are you using?


v905.4753 2/2013

The very latest as far as I know, so it was quite a surprise to find so many errors in a relatively small space.
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PostPosted: Mon Apr 08, 2013 10:34 am    Post subject: Re: London routing - map errors and rubbish routing! Reply with quote

uk89camaro wrote:
I didn't have time to mark the errors, but shirley there must be enough people on here that live/travel in that area, to upload those map errors?

Don't call me Shirley ....... (see how many sad people get the film reference)
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PostPosted: Mon Apr 08, 2013 10:41 am    Post subject: Re: London routing - map errors and rubbish routing! Reply with quote

uk89camaro wrote:
I didn't have time to mark the errors

And I rather fancy that everybody else was in the same predicament - Piccadilly doesn't encourage stopping to fiddle about with satnav map change submissions.
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PostPosted: Mon Apr 08, 2013 11:03 am    Post subject: Re: London routing - map errors and rubbish routing! Reply with quote

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p.s. My Jag sat nav was equally Censored Edited by DennisN - funny spelling may beat the auto censor, but not me. Don't do it please.


Serious sense of humour failure there Dennis!

I shall go elsewhere mate.
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PostPosted: Mon Apr 08, 2013 11:24 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

No. It wasn't a sense of humour failure. It was good moderation to keep this a family site with no gratuitous swearing. If you prefer sites that allow such behaviour, feel free, but please don't do it here.
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PostPosted: Mon Apr 08, 2013 8:03 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I am a London taxi driver and I frequently make map corrections and submit them. However, every time I get a new map I find the errors have not been corrected.
I suspect therefore that is the slowness that Tom Tom takes to include them.
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PostPosted: Mon Apr 08, 2013 8:26 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

And possibly the fact that as they don't get included, this hacks people off so much that they just don't bother any more.
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PostPosted: Mon Apr 08, 2013 11:17 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I have submitted loads that have never been actioned, but just once I submitted one on the website and it got into the next update...
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PostPosted: Tue Apr 09, 2013 7:10 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

M8TJT wrote:
No. It wasn't a sense of humour failure. It was good moderation to keep this a family site with no gratuitous swearing. If you prefer sites that allow such behaviour, feel free, but please don't do it here.


I disagree. Is that allowed?

If you thought that was gratuitous swearing you perhaps need to get out a bit more. It's like being in a school classroom, the moderator attitudes on here are massively condescending.

It was a light hearted tongue in cheek remark from someone who doesn't use this place as a chat room, but seeks to share and receive information that makes life a bit easier to work with.

P.s. Thanks for the information from the young-goat, I'd imagined that map-error reports "stuck" with a bit more frequency.
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