TomTom adds weather data in route calculations

[Darren]

TomTom announced on Wednesday that they will be adding weather data to the route information provided via Tom-tom Traffic.

Now, not only will you get warnings of traffic jams on your route but also information about traffic issues caused by adverse weather.

TomTom claim they are the first company to use real-time weather data when calculating routes and ETAs.

Source: tomtom.com/traffic

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Darren Griffin

[IanS100]

As I understand TT Traffic, information about mobile phone movements (or not) is converted to Traffic info, so I'm not sure that it makes any difference why there's a Traffic Jam, slow moving or stationery traffic is / should be reported regardless of cause.
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Galaxy Note 4 / TomTom GO : CamerAlert : CoPilot

[mike37]

Weather downloads may be of use in some more extreme conditions.

I would have thought having both a more up to date complete data set of fuel prices available for downloading when not travelling and an up to date partial fuel download relevant to the current route when travelling on a route would be of more benefit.

[navtrav]

[DennisN]

[JimmyTheHand]

[M8TJT]

Are TT going to predict the weather then or display the actual? As weather is a fairly slow moving thing, I suspect that you would probably better off by looking at the weather forecast on TV the night before.

[JimmyTheHand]

[M8TJT]

Both methods would probably be more accurate than TT

[DennisN]

But neither of them will get TT any publicity, whereas shouting about doing weather on their TomToms will certainly fool a lot of the people a lot of the time!

You heard it here first - we shall shortly be seeing posts asking how you can buy the weather service for your TomTom, or if the weather service is available on the xx model. They do it with cameras, why not with weather?
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Dennis

If it tastes good - it's fattening.

Two of them are obesiting!!

[aj2052]

I take it will be updated daily shortly after 6.30 pm after the evening news weather forecast.
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Moto G5s Plus, Sygic 17.4.8

[DennisN]

Wrong!

It is included with the traffic service which is updated every two minutes. A marketing executive's blue heaven!!

"TT Traffic is updated EVERY TWO MINUTES and now includes weather".

Gimme, gimme, gimme. I wish I could do this with whitevanning!

Oh, I forgot to add that they may need to reduce the horizon further, in order to accommodate the extra data download.
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Dennis

If it tastes good - it's fattening.

Two of them are obesiting!!

[M8TJT]

They will probably reduce the horizon to about the same as that which you can see by looking out of your window.
I really can't see the point. If the weather causes a hold up then the normal traffic should show the delay and route accordingly if you want it to. Does anyone really care what is causing the hold up?

[DennisN]

Quite so. But they won't ever mention that the horizon has been reduced.

I really must start shouting that I can deliver goods using a van with a human driver.
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Dennis

If it tastes good - it's fattening.

Two of them are obesiting!!

[technik]

If you use Waze on Android, that has weather information on routes input by users, so TomTom are not the first.
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GO 620, Tomtom Android EU,
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