Camera location and direction

AlfaIan · Occasional Visitor Joined: Mar 15, 2007 Posts: 2

Sorry if this is in the wrong section.

I'm finding that the speed camera locations are alerting me of camera's on the wrong side of the road which are for traffic going in the other direction. Or even parrall roads.

Is there a way of stopping this?

Device is a tomtom6 on PDA.

Privateer · Posted: Thu Apr 26, 2007 2:37 pm Post subject:

Hi AlfaIan,

Welcome

to the forum! Thumbs Up

The only was to stop alerts on the other side of the road is to set your TomTom Proximity Alerts and check the "Warn only if POI is on route" box.

NB. If you check the "Warn only if POI is on route" box, then you will not be warned of POIs that you approach if:
1. The POIs are slightly away from the road.
2. You have no destination and therefore no route planned.

You may still be warned of cameras for the opposite direction, when you are on single carriageway roads.

Regards,
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Robert.
iPhone 6s Plus, iOS 14.0.1: iOS CamerAlert v2.0.7
TomTom GO Mobile iOS 2.3.1; TomTom (UK & ROI and Europe) iOS apps v1.29
Garmin Camper 770 LMT-D

AlfaIan · Occasional Visitor Joined: Mar 15, 2007 Posts: 2

So until there is a fix I’ll have to get use to it.

Thanks for the answer

desd · Regular Visitor Joined: Jul 01, 2006 Posts: 117

I've been having the same problem with my zumo??
I thought it did directional but maybe im wrong
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Zumo 500 + 4GB SD Card, car Kit and GTM21
Linked to Autocom by bluetooth and all seems good.
Traffic reception in the central belt of Scotland and hurray NW England seems to be working again. Still a million times better than the Quest 2 it replaces

MaFt · Posted: Thu Apr 26, 2007 10:15 pm Post subject:

as far as i am aware, the only units that can use directional data are drivesmart and some of the newer mio units.

also, these are teh only PGPSW downloads that include the heading data.

MaFt

Andy_P · Posted: Fri Apr 27, 2007 12:22 pm Post subject:

Adding to Privateer's reply:

You WILL get alerts from cameras on the other side of the road (rather than "might").

This is because as far as the TomTom is concerned the whole road is a single route.
The only time you won't (although it still happens ocasionally) is on dual carriageways, which are seen as two seperate routes (look at the colour of the road when you have a route planned).
The other time it happens on dual carriageways (which I find really annoying) is when a camera position - often a mobile site - is positioned on the roundabout off a slip road. These throw up spurious "30" warnings for example, as you are bombing down the motorway. This seems to be a function of the maps (or the way the softwarte interprets them, as it has definitely got worse as I have updated).
It seems as if the whole junction has been included with the main road as part of "the route".

I think you just have to get used to it, until the technology is more sophisticated.

desd · Regular Visitor Joined: Jul 01, 2006 Posts: 117

Im getting alerts on the A90 to Aberdeen for both directions and as dual carriage ways go they dont get much wider
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Zumo 500 + 4GB SD Card, car Kit and GTM21
Linked to Autocom by bluetooth and all seems good.
Traffic reception in the central belt of Scotland and hurray NW England seems to be working again. Still a million times better than the Quest 2 it replaces

Andy_P · Posted: Mon Apr 30, 2007 9:47 am Post subject:

As I said in my last post:

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