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Diplo Regular Visitor
Joined: Nov 16, 2004 Posts: 112 Location: Liverpool, UK
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Posted: Thu Dec 23, 2004 1:28 am Post subject: TT Estimated Time of Arrival |
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I've noticed that TomTom (3.07) tends to be a little bit optimistic about estimated time or arrival; perhaps I'm a slow driver or TT doesn't take into account traffic congestion, but often it predicts a time well ahead of when I do arrive. Is there any way of changing this ie. making TT a little more realistic in it's estimates?
Could it be that TT uses the road speeds you can conifgure to arrive at it's estimates? In that case, would lowering all the speeds make it estimate longer times? Anyone? _________________ Medion 95000 | TT3.07 | Kingston 512MB SD |
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lbendlin Pocket GPS Staff
Joined: 02/11/2002 22:41:59 Posts: 11878 Location: Massachusetts, USA
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Posted: Thu Dec 23, 2004 2:30 pm Post subject: |
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You are on the right track. When you adjust the road class speeds to your average it should also calculate a more realistic ETA _________________ Lutz
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Sean16 Occasional Visitor
Joined: Dec 23, 2004 Posts: 24
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Posted: Thu Dec 23, 2004 4:29 pm Post subject: |
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What speeds you suggest to use in the different setting, I've tried a search but cannot find anything, any help would be great.
Thanks Sean |
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Diplo Regular Visitor
Joined: Nov 16, 2004 Posts: 112 Location: Liverpool, UK
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Posted: Thu Dec 23, 2004 4:38 pm Post subject: |
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Just a word of warning - be careful playing around with these speeds as it can dramatically effect the way TomTom routes you! _________________ Medion 95000 | TT3.07 | Kingston 512MB SD |
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Sean16 Occasional Visitor
Joined: Dec 23, 2004 Posts: 24
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Posted: Thu Dec 23, 2004 4:50 pm Post subject: |
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Thanks for the advice, I've not changed mine as unsure what the best speed setting would be.
Motor way I have 70 mph
International Road unsure what to set that at if anyone can define what Internation Roads are.
Again the same for major road/secondary road.
Important local road I have 30 mph and Local road 30 mph. |
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Diplo Regular Visitor
Joined: Nov 16, 2004 Posts: 112 Location: Liverpool, UK
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Posted: Thu Dec 23, 2004 5:01 pm Post subject: |
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Yeah, I'm afraid it's not at all clear and I have a no idea how TT defines most road types. I think the question has been asked before and no one really seems to know (though I'm hoping to be proved wrong on this!)
From experimentation I did find that altering the speeds does effect routing (sometimes drastically if the ratios change a lot). For instance, if you make Motorway speeds higher and leave other roads the same then TomTom will route you onto motorways more often. It determines a route by calculating what will be the fastest way from A to B using the road speeds you tell it. Be careful, though, as making (say) motorways much faster than the next type of roads can mean TT always making a B-line for the nearest motorway junction wherever you are... Luckily there is a Reset to Defaults button if you can't remember what the orginal speeds were _________________ Medion 95000 | TT3.07 | Kingston 512MB SD |
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barryd Frequent Visitor
Joined: Mar 27, 2004 Posts: 285 Location: Cheshire, England
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Posted: Thu Dec 23, 2004 7:02 pm Post subject: |
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Diplo wrote: | Yeah, I'm afraid it's not at all clear and I have a no idea how TT defines most road types. I think the question has been asked before and no one really seems to know (though I'm hoping to be proved wrong on this!) |
I too saw the post a week or two ago about this, and used it as an excuse to play with the TomTom colour schemes. The link at the end of this post will take you to a page where you can see and download what I came up with - a colour scheme that clearly shows all the different road types. So you can see for yourself on the TomTom map what type any road is.
As a result:
Motorway - (doh) motorway
International road - Primary A road - a minority of the key ones, typically between big cities and usually dual carriageways, but by no means always. EG the A6 through Stockport is one, but that's a 30mph single carriageway.
Major road - Primary A road - the majority of them, i.e. the rest of the trunk road network. Some are dual carriageways.
Secondary road - The rest of the A roads.
Connecting road - B roads.
Important local road - Other "major" but unnumbered country lanes and urban streets.
http://www.freenetpages.co.uk/hp/barrydavies/brittana.htm _________________ Barry Davies
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Diplo Regular Visitor
Joined: Nov 16, 2004 Posts: 112 Location: Liverpool, UK
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Posted: Thu Dec 23, 2004 7:50 pm Post subject: |
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Thanks, Barry, that certainly makes things a little more clear. I take it you can only replace TT colour schemes and not add new ones? _________________ Medion 95000 | TT3.07 | Kingston 512MB SD |
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barryd Frequent Visitor
Joined: Mar 27, 2004 Posts: 285 Location: Cheshire, England
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Posted: Thu Dec 23, 2004 8:46 pm Post subject: |
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As far as I know the drop-down lists for colour schemes are fixed, so yes, you can only replace the existing ones. You could of course rename my file after downloading it and before copying it to the Pocket PC, if you wanted to replace a different one instead. _________________ Barry Davies
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