How can I get a continuous direction for US to Canada

sampatel · Occasional Visitor Joined: Apr 05, 2005 Posts: 30

How the hell can I get a continuous direction for US to Canada, we are planning to go to Canada to see Niagra falls, how can I get directions for that. Any suggestions. Thanks to anyone who answers.

Samir

lbendlin · Posted: Sun May 29, 2005 12:34 am Post subject:

simple answer - you can't . TomTom does not support cross-map navigation.

You need to navigate to Niagara, NY , and then manually switch maps as you cross the border.
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sampatel · Occasional Visitor Joined: Apr 05, 2005 Posts: 30

That kind of sucks.....

lbendlin · Posted: Sun May 29, 2005 1:28 am Post subject:

Don't tell us, tell TomTom.
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flyguy26e · Posted: Sun May 29, 2005 4:01 am Post subject: Cross-map navigation

Same problem if you want to go between certain states in the USA, such as from Idaho to Montana. I haven't tried it, but perhaps the "Major road network" map will be suitable. I can work around it, but it seems very primitive that I can't navigate within a country, even though my SD card will hold the entire country!

I think some programs (Garmin?) allow you to generate the maps you need from a map on a PC. You select the area of interest, then draw a rectangle. The PC outputs a map of the area.

After I have TT5 and see how it operates, and how good the maps are, I'll prioritize my complaints and suggestions. Right now, with TT4, the maps and POIs (specifically, the lack of POIs) are by far the big issues.

lbendlin · Posted: Sun May 29, 2005 5:37 am Post subject:

This won't change with TTN5. Same maps, same selection of POIs.

To be fair to TomTom - the inability to route across maps is partly caused by the licensing restrictions that TeleAtlas imposes. Maps cannot contain more than x million inhabitants (the exact number differs by license). That's why you have six independent big chunks (plus all these funny permutations that bloat it up to 8 CDs)

TTN4 and 5 has both the MRUS and the "Cities of America" maps which are - to some extend - mitigating the issue by giving you a network if interstates and state highways plus the city centers of the 20 biggest cities (ok, city centers from a geographic point of view, not related to real life).

But this is only for the US, and still doesn't help with the original problem in this thread. TomTom really should extend these two maps to include Canada.
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darekd · Posted: Tue May 31, 2005 2:18 pm Post subject:

MRUS and the "Cities of America" would be sufficient but they don't have any POI. Is this going to be corrected in TT5?

Tim Buxton

lbendlin · Posted: Tue May 31, 2005 5:16 pm Post subject:

darekd · Posted: Tue May 31, 2005 6:12 pm Post subject:

lbendlin · Posted: Tue May 31, 2005 9:10 pm Post subject:

You don't need this for Canada (since the Canada map already contains the POIs.

Which states are we talking about?
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darekd · Posted: Tue May 31, 2005 9:58 pm Post subject:

I need,

West Virginia
Ohio
Indiana
Illinois
Wisconsin
Minnesota
North Dakota

darekd · Posted: Wed Jun 01, 2005 10:01 pm Post subject:

lbendlin · Posted: Wed Jun 01, 2005 10:13 pm Post subject:

i'll see what I can do. When is your trip?
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darekd · Posted: Thu Jun 02, 2005 12:17 am Post subject:

I leave on June 9th.

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