TT's New Live Traffic Webpage

layingback · Regular Visitor Joined: Feb 12, 2009 Posts: 124

Greeted this morning by new version of Live HD traffic on my personal confuser.

UI is ok, and display clear. But it doesn't read its own parameters on start up. So even if you bookmark it it always opens zoomed out to the whole world. Daft!

How mobile do they think their customers are?

Or is this an attempt to stop you using Live HD webpage to check traffic on your daily commute?

Even if you Plan Route (which clutters your map with a route you know by heart) and bookmark that, it still opens to a map of the entire UK.

My hypothesis that TT employees all use Garmin products remains intact!

EDIT: Workarpund: If you select Route Planner, then the Location tab then it will remember that when you bookmark - but you lose almost a 1/3rd of the screen to your now unused location selection panel which you don't seem to be able to hide (so much for the UI being OK ;-) )
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technik · Posted: Wed Mar 09, 2011 8:48 am Post subject: Re: TT's New Live Traffic Webpage

layingback · Regular Visitor Joined: Feb 12, 2009 Posts: 124

matthewj · Frequent Visitor Joined: Apr 03, 2006 Posts: 751

I like the improved version - much better. Pity it doesn't remember where I am as you say. (Chrome browser)

IanS100 · Posted: Wed Mar 09, 2011 11:43 am Post subject:

Once bookmarked in Firefox it remembers where you are but the default view seems to be the zoom level used when setting the home location ie:-
If I zoom right in to set an accurate home location that becomes my default view
If I zoom right out & guesstimate my home location that becomes the default view, which all seems a bit strange as it appears to be impossible to have an very accurate 'Home Location' and a default view showing a wide area.

It's very fast at calculating a route, I'd be very happy if my 550 could do even a 10th as quick!!

technik · Posted: Thu Mar 10, 2011 9:03 am Post subject:

I thought the OP was talking about the route planner which hasn't change much, but have now seen the New Live Traffic page.

If you click on the UK country flag when it starts, you can then enter a postcode to zoom in easy enough, but as the OP was saying you can't actually save a location yet.
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IanS100 · Posted: Thu Mar 10, 2011 11:04 am Post subject:

You can if you bookmark the location

matthewj · Frequent Visitor Joined: Apr 03, 2006 Posts: 751

IanS100 · Posted: Thu Mar 10, 2011 12:54 pm Post subject:

Sorry I'm using Route Planner which, as far as I can see, shows exactly the same Traffic info as 'Live Traffic' with the ability to bookmark locations

pward · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jun 15, 2005 Posts: 57

It looks like TomTom have reverted to the old style page as of today.

Is it possible the new style was a test to assess customer reaction?

technik · Posted: Thu Mar 10, 2011 2:32 pm Post subject:

pward · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jun 15, 2005 Posts: 57

layingback · Regular Visitor Joined: Feb 12, 2009 Posts: 124

As of yesterday TT seem to have finally added long overdue code to actually read the saved URI parameters and redisplay the previously viewed area.

Nothing in the parameters have changed, and the bookmark I saved back in early March now opens the map to the area that I was viewing when I saved it - vs most of the western hemisphere.
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