Red Roads.

BERTIE · Occasional Visitor Joined: Oct 09, 2004 Posts: 14

Just been into Nottingham with no route selected and tomtom is showing a number of roads or part lengths of roads coloured red, can anyone help please. Also am thinking of getting a 1GB SD card, which ones are compatible ?

Sniff · Posted: Fri Dec 17, 2004 4:19 pm Post subject:

one way streets?

BERTIE · Occasional Visitor Joined: Oct 09, 2004 Posts: 14

Not one way streets,

wildcard · Occasional Visitor Joined: Nov 13, 2004 Posts: 44

DavidW · Posted: Sat Dec 18, 2004 3:18 pm Post subject:

That's an interesting theory.

I've seen a lot of small roads marked 'not for navigation' in the Navigator 3 UK maps - in Navigator 3 on the Pocket PC they appear with light pink dashes on them. Mainly these are small residential roads - so you could be right - that it's deliberate anti rat-run. I have my doubts, though - I would have thought anti rat-run would be more likely to be implemented by marking roads a category or two lower than they really are to steer the routing engine away from them whilst not affecting local routes.

I treat every one as a map error irrespective of the cause. In some towns, such as Dunstable, Bedfordshire, I find Navigator giving me illogical routes or just plain nonsense if I happen to have gone down one of these roads to visit someone.

I'm more inclined to believe it's a data conversion glitch - maybe TomTom not mapping a road type correctly when the maps were built. Is West Hill in Dunstable so marked on your Go? If not, it could be a difference between the maps, or it could be that the 'red' roads Bertie was talking about are actually something different and not this issue after all.

Anyway, in the Navigator 3 maps, West Hill is marked as "not for navigation" for about the far half of its length. It's a no through road, even unofficially it leads nowhere else. I'm 99% sure it is adopted by the council, so I don't think it's something to do with unadopted roads.

David

wildcard · Occasional Visitor Joined: Nov 13, 2004 Posts: 44

DavidW · Posted: Sat Dec 18, 2004 9:06 pm Post subject:

It's not just me, then!

I don't suppose you know Dunstable; I don't live there any more but I often have reason to go there. Lowther Road is the main road through that area; the speed camera on that road is near a school entrance. The other roads off Lowther Road are pretty much all residential - including Derwent Drive, West Hill, Borrowdale Avenue, Furzen Close and Brierley Close. The "not for navigation" bit in the middle of Borrowdale Avenue on the Navigator 3 maps is particularly weird.

Apart from the school by the speed camera and a church, there is a small parade of shops just off Lowther Road to the north, in between Abbey Mews and Oldhill. Apart from that, it's all residential.

As you say, you get some bizarre routes given because of all the "Not for Navigation" marking - I think the one you found is one of the most bizarre yet! There's some more "Not for Navigation" roads elsewhere in the town, including Aldbanks.

Has anyone spotted anything similar anywhere else?

David

BERTIE · Occasional Visitor Joined: Oct 09, 2004 Posts: 14

Just to clarify the red roads I am seeing on TT Go. The red colour is lighter and brighter than the one when you have a route planned and there seems no reason at all for them to be coloured. i.e. London Road and Trent Bridge in Nottingham are coloured red for about a mile then return to normal. This is a 4 lane main thoroughfare into Nottingham. Have considered a reset or wiping the card and starting over, help.

Eldar · Posted: Sun Dec 19, 2004 1:00 pm Post subject:

Have you tried changing the colour scheme? (Preferences->Change map colours)

BERTIE · Occasional Visitor Joined: Oct 09, 2004 Posts: 14

Yes - all to no avail, think I'll have to start over, is it possible to wipe the card and reload from the CD?

Eldar · Posted: Sun Dec 19, 2004 5:08 pm Post subject:

Could you tell us the map/firmware versions and your colour scheme?

BERTIE · Occasional Visitor Joined: Oct 09, 2004 Posts: 14

Firmware is 4.42. Colour scheme is Belgica.

Eldar · Posted: Sun Dec 19, 2004 6:33 pm Post subject:

Couldn't see it myself, at least using the "Map" view. Perhaps it is different in the "Navigator" view, but I cannot use it since I'm not physically in Nottingham.

BERTIE · Occasional Visitor Joined: Oct 09, 2004 Posts: 14

Doesn't show in map view, Happened when travelling with no route selected. Will try tomorrow with routing active.

Eldar · Posted: Wed Dec 22, 2004 9:28 pm Post subject: Re: Red Roads.

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