TomTom GO v5 does not use nearest street when in parking lot

yunixx · Occasional Visitor Joined: May 16, 2005 Posts: 4

I am a new user of TomTom GO V5 USA. And I came across something annoying with the way TomTom GO works. I was wondering whether others have come across this and/or have comments on this. I did try a search of old posting but couldn't find anything related.

So, I had pulled into a parking lot off a main street and was trying to navigate to a restaurant nearby. But TomTom kept saying that there is "no usable location" and gave me the list of restaurants relative to my HOME which was miles away. I would have expected TomTom to pick the nearest street (which I just turned off of - maybe 200 feet) and show me a list of nearest restaurants. Unfortunately it doesn't and shows me the stuff nearest to my HOME. Has anyone come across this? Why wouldn't TomTom find the nearest street and work with that? TomTom knows the nearest street because I can see that (in the route info) if I navigate to someplace from where I was stopped.

Also, the moment I pulled back into the street, it started working as expected by showing the list of the nearest restaurant. But then I have to ensure that I am on a street to find the nearest POI nd that is not always convenient.

I do know that you could find POIs off the "MAP" screen... but from experienece, I don't find that as convenient as seeing/navigating to the list of POIs from the main screen.

Any ideas?

Wishlist · Lifetime Member Joined: Mar 10, 2005 Posts: 160

I think as I understand your post that you could not start your nav because you were not on a road that TTG knows about. So it cannot give you a route because it cannot work out where you want to start from. Sadly this is obvious to a human but the Go follows strict rules on how to go about things. If you break a link in its method it stops!

The other thing then is why not do as you suggest? But then half the time then it would tell you to start the route from the other side of a brick wall! It can’t win. You have to be on a known route to begin the nav process.

yunixx · Occasional Visitor Joined: May 16, 2005 Posts: 4

I think my original description wasn't the best Smile

Wishlist · Lifetime Member Joined: Mar 10, 2005 Posts: 160

Ohh I see now what you mean, I think, the list of POIs was not near where you were? But near to where your home is? Which was not what you needed? Right? If so you are also right. I am doubting myself now!! Confused

:D

Wishlist · Lifetime Member Joined: Mar 10, 2005 Posts: 160

So when you have a route planned, it knows where you are! Try then asking it to nav to a POI whist your route in still in there, then you have the option of selecting a POI near your position or on your route. Long winded but it does what you want to do? :P

SGR1913 · Occasional Visitor Joined: Oct 26, 2004 Posts: 59

if you have v5, you might want to use "Navigate to POI in city" something i find very useful..

Jim-Bob · Posted: Mon May 16, 2005 5:46 pm Post subject:

Go to browse map then center on current location then find nearby POI. this should give a list of POIs of whatever cattogary you want in order of distance from whereever you are in a straight line.

yunixx · Occasional Visitor Joined: May 16, 2005 Posts: 4

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