Cornwalls back lanes

Paul-in-Cornwall · Posted: Mon Oct 03, 2005 11:32 pm Post subject: Cornwalls back lanes

Just wondering,

Have any of you driven around the many back lanes in Cornwall? If so were they shown or were you directed along them via TTN5? I'm asking as I can end up driving some of the lanes and often end up trying to find some places during my working week.

Many thanks,

Paul

andy-c1 · Posted: Tue Oct 04, 2005 9:31 am Post subject:

i can only say st ives and surrounding area with tomtom 3 and they seemed allright way back then ,well it got me to where i wanted to go back that was just getting around on holiday ,you might be in more need of even minor roads ,so maybe i'm not the best person to reply
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Pocketgps · Posted: Tue Oct 04, 2005 3:25 pm Post subject: Re: Cornwalls back lanes

aliendad · Posted: Tue Oct 04, 2005 6:52 pm Post subject:

just spent a week on holiday in devon and cornwall, tomtom always picked the shortest route, including roads that we would not have been able to open the car doors if we had needed to! the roads were all shown and we did nearly 1400 miles in a week without any problems.
(except the wife saying "your to close to the verge!") Laughing

bobtown · Occasional Visitor Joined: Sep 16, 2005 Posts: 6

Had two weeks touring Cornwall recently with TomTom5, no problems at all. All the roads/lanes we went down were all marked on the map. I used it to avoid the traffic on the way down and it was superb, took us off the A30 and down small lanes and villages and straight to our destination!
:D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D

Paul-in-Cornwall · Posted: Tue Oct 04, 2005 10:49 pm Post subject: Re: Cornwalls back lanes

Cheers guys, thats what I was hoping to hear.... Smile

garyparson · Occasional Visitor Joined: Oct 09, 2004 Posts: 24

I used it this week on roads round Devon and last couple of years round Cornwall. I find it annoying having to be taken on one of these 'grass in the middle' roads with no way of turning back when you're on it. There should be an option to avoid them unless neccesary.

lupos0_1 · Posted: Sun Oct 09, 2005 10:19 am Post subject:

Check the route first and if you don't like the roads chosen, avoid them using the option.

bowler · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jul 10, 2004 Posts: 17

Just recently returned from staying at an obscure farm way off the beaten track TT5 performed very well.
Finding the location which was down single track roads for 2 miles the first time using the postcode of the farm was very inaccurate as it took me to the hamlet (3 houses) that the postcode represented.
Once i had found the farm I stored the location as a favorite and TT took me to the farm gates every time after that. Interesting
ly it did not take me to the stored location which was probably nearly half a mile from the farm gates but stopped at the end of the tarmaced road.

garyparson · Occasional Visitor Joined: Oct 09, 2004 Posts: 24

aliendad · Posted: Sun Oct 09, 2005 7:58 pm Post subject:

Oldboy · Posted: Sun Oct 09, 2005 8:08 pm Post subject:

aliendad · Posted: Sun Oct 09, 2005 8:23 pm Post subject:

ye, and the post office deliver everything on time Laughing

Paul-in-Cornwall · Posted: Wed Oct 12, 2005 11:52 pm Post subject:

Hi all,

Just an update, I took the plunge and bought TTN5 + car cradle for my iPAQhx2110, (it happens to be Version 5.0), with TomTom wired receiver, also got 512mb SD card too, to add the French map later.

For a test, I have driven down some of the small back roads during this week and took wrong turnings from the route down roads I know just to see if those roads were there on the map, of course it did try and avoid some of them as they are not that speedy I suppose, but having said that I'm impressed and glad I've bought it now :D

I assume there will be a postcode database update sometime as our house number is not in the present database, (our house is 3 years old), the road is there as there were already houses along the road before ours was built and the same postcode covers all the houses built here now.

Paul

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