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cantgetlost
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 Posted: Sat Oct 14, 2006 1:24 am Post subject: Help> What will it do. |
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Ok, I feel like an intruder here as I'm a Garmin user, but please please help! 
My young daughter has just been promoted and has moved away from her home area.
She has an I3 which was fine for personal use, but now equiped with a Company Car and clients all over the country she needs a Sat Nave that is more routeable and preferably remebes a route if she takes aher own choice to avoid traffic bottle necks or hold ups.
A new work colleague has told her o get a Tom Tom One as it will remeber routes and you can program your own route with multiple way points.
? is, has she got the full story and how easy is routing on the TT One ?
All help greatly appreciated ! |
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Oldboy
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| Posted: Sat Oct 14, 2006 8:35 am Post subject: Re: Help> What will it do. |
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| cantgetlost wrote: | | .... she needs a Sat Nave that is more routeable and preferably remebes a route if she takes aher own choice to avoid traffic bottle necks or hold ups. |
If she has to re-route, the Sat Nav will re-calculate the route to the Destination. It won't remember that it did the re-route.
| cantgetlost wrote: | | A new work colleague has told her o get a Tom Tom One as it will remeber routes and you can program your own route with multiple way points. |
It will remember a Route if using Itinerary Planning, as you can save as many as like onto the SD Card, as long as you have enough free memory.
The Itinerary Routing on TomTom's doesn't Optomise the Routes. Also if you Select Find Alternative | Travel Via, to do a detour, it will cancel the original Waypoints and re-route directly to the Destination.
If you do Select Find Alternative | Avoid Roadblock it will retain the Itinerary Routing.
If you wish to Remove a Waypoint from that particular journey, you have to go into Itinerary Planning again, either before starting, or during the Journey, and Mark a Waypoint as Visited.
It's not overly flexible, but it's useable.
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Tumbleweed
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| Posted: Sat Oct 14, 2006 11:50 am Post subject: Re: Help> What will it do. |
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| Oldboy wrote: |
It's not overly flexible, but it's useable. |
I'm not so convinced, waypoints are fine if you want to actually stop there, lieka delivery driver say, but using them to create a route is difficult because you have to make sure the waypoint is on the right side of the road, and it will insist you pass through it if you decide to divert off. Yes you can cancel that but its by no means hassle free or IMHO worth the effort.
To the OP, if your daughter knows the areas enough to reroute, she doesnt need a TT to remember the exact route anyway,and it will recalculate on the fly if she decides to get offroute for whatever reason. You can also block out sections of a route and have it choose another way, lets say it tells you to go on the M25 and you dont want to (but are happy with other motorways) you can tell it to omit the M25 for this route and it will calculate an alternative. |
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Oldboy
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Perhaps I should have said 'it's not overly flexible or User friendly, but it's useable.
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cantgetlost
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| Posted: Sat Oct 14, 2006 1:12 pm Post subject: |
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Daughter is a high level IT technical software product manager but a very new and inexperienced driver with the self confessed direction skills akin to a house bricks.
So has anyone any suggestions re best routeable option for Tom Tom Sat nav. |
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| Posted: Sat Oct 14, 2006 3:04 pm Post subject: |
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The GO does not remember a route.
It stores a destination. Works out a route and tells you haow to follow it.
As soon as you leave that route the GO will immediately recalculate a new route to the destination you have chosen. So keep a list of destinations and the GO will get you there without you needing to do anything except follow instructions. If you ignore the instruction for any reason (roadworks, new road, diversion, etc.) The GO will work out new instructions automatically. The only irritation is that it is likely for the first minute or so, the instruction will be :"Turn around when possible"!!
If you really need to save a route (rather than a destination), have a look at the aftermarket add-on software Tripmaster: http://www.webazar.org/tomtom/tripmaster.php?lang=uk
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| Posted: Sat Oct 14, 2006 9:14 pm Post subject: Re: Help> What will it do. |
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| cantgetlost wrote: | Ok, I feel like an intruder here as I'm a Garmin user, but please please help!
My young daughter has just been promoted and has moved away from her home area.
She has an I3 which was fine for personal use, but now equiped with a Company Car and clients all over the country she needs a Sat Nave that is more routeable and preferably remebes a route if she takes aher own choice to avoid traffic bottle necks or hold ups.
A new work colleague has told her o get a Tom Tom One as it will remeber routes and you can program your own route with multiple way points.
? is, has she got the full story and how easy is routing on the TT One ?
All help greatly appreciated ! |
I doubt that your daughter really needs a device that can 'remember a route' she just needs one that can get her there! If as you said she hasnt got a clue about directions etc, then she is in any case unlikely to devise her own route, and if she does go off route for whatever reason, the TT will recalculate and find a new one.
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cantgetlost
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Her problem is sense of direction and inexperience on the roads.
Her rote to her office from our home has a lot of routing options down Berkshire lanes to avoid some bad hold ups. A unit that would remember a chosen alternative would solve a lot of her problems when trying to do the same route in reverse when one lane looks much the same as another! |
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| Posted: Wed Oct 18, 2006 11:55 am Post subject: |
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| Just as a thought ? If you have a tom tom could you not install Tripmaster then drive a route for her using the Tripmaster and then reverse it and the problem might then be solved. |
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| cantgetlost wrote: | Her problem is sense of direction and inexperience on the roads.
Her rote to her office from our home has a lot of routing options down Berkshire lanes to avoid some bad hold ups. A unit that would remember a chosen alternative would solve a lot of her problems when trying to do the same route in reverse when one lane looks much the same as another! |
For a specific, often repeated route, you could save this as a Itinerary. Again, the reversed (manually or using a utility) Itinerary could be saved. (Home to Work.ITN & Work to Home.ITN)
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