New Tom tom owner

crazyken · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jan 18, 2006 Posts: 7

I have just got my new tom tom one, how much memory comes as standared on the sd card? And is it possible to get a bigger one so that I can install all the poi downloads that are available.
Many Thanks.

mossman · Regular Visitor Joined: Dec 21, 2005 Posts: 90

The supplied SD card is 128Mb, the application just fits on though. I would certainly recommend buying a 256Mb card, you will then have plenty of room for the POI downloads and extra voice warnings etc.

Privateer · Posted: Wed Jan 18, 2006 2:15 pm Post subject:

Hi crazyken,

Welcome

to the forum! Thumbs Up

crazyken · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jan 18, 2006 Posts: 7

Many Thanks for your prompt answers.

ster · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jan 16, 2006 Posts: 4

Another new TT One owner here. Bought mine last night and apart from needing to swap it for another one (due to missing manual+CD) I'm really impressed. I'd already spent ages looking at SatNav devices, and even studying the TT One, but it's surpassed all my expectations...

It's a lot thinner than the Go range, the GPS reception is nothing short of outstanding - was getting 7 satellites whilst holding the device flat on my lap in passenger seat, and then went indoors and still picking up 4/5 satellites from my dining room! Still got a lot to learn about the device, but the auto recalculation of route if you take a detour is cool (and no annoying warning to say you've gone wrong). All in all, well impressed.

Now just need to sort out how I'm gonna mount the device in the car as I hate the windscreen sucker method... would much prefer an easily detachable (i.e. <1min) way of connecting to an air vent, or might even try the velcro method!

Privateer · Posted: Wed Jan 18, 2006 4:28 pm Post subject:

Hi ster,

crazyken · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jan 18, 2006 Posts: 7

I just called in a favour from someone I know in the trade and he is going to put me a 1gig sd card in the post tomorrow. Yipeee! Anyone know if there is a way to delete the Recent Destination list as it is getting full up with rubbish journeys
many Thanks to all :P

Privateer · Posted: Wed Jan 18, 2006 6:26 pm Post subject:

Hi crazyken,

crazyken · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jan 18, 2006 Posts: 7

Thanks, I just wondered if there was any way to edit the CFG file.

Privateer · Posted: Wed Jan 18, 2006 6:39 pm Post subject:

crazyken · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jan 18, 2006 Posts: 7

Iv'e now got my 1gig card but have just come up against the limit of pois you can have, I didn't know of that, so I now have masses of card space that I can't use for anything, Ho Hum, thats life Embarassed

sgould · Frequent Visitor Joined: Oct 05, 2004 Posts: 1320

You could always buy and download a map from the TomTom site ready for when you go on holiday Wink

Of course, TomTom might increase the number of PoIs at the next software upgrade. On the other hand they might reduce it and only allow PoIs that you buy from them Crying or Very sad

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mossman · Regular Visitor Joined: Dec 21, 2005 Posts: 90

sgould · Frequent Visitor Joined: Oct 05, 2004 Posts: 1320

My cynicism is due to the fact that they now sell Speed Camera info.

They also said recently that TeleAtlas had access to many millions of PoIs. This is an untapped resource and won't be made available for free.

Why should they not limit further the number so that you can build a small number of your own PoIs and pay for the rest which would be available in a different format, maybe like the built-in ones.
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TTGO 700 (dead)
iPhone 3GS + TT holder
iPhone 5 (hers!)
Western Europe Map
Eastern Europe Map
Kenwood DNX-4210DAB with Garmin maps

mossman · Regular Visitor Joined: Dec 21, 2005 Posts: 90

People will only pay for them IF they are proven to be accurate and up to date. You can (with the appropriate tools and knowledge) build your own poi.dat file (utilising YOUR poi info, but TomTom's categories and symbols), so as long as accurate POI data is available (three cheers for the internet ;)) then there will be no issues.

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