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gpsdell · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jul 18, 2005 Posts: 23

I'll take your word for it. If there's a problem with maps being incorrect is that down to the sat nav companies not shipping the latest maps, e.g. TT 5 came out ealier this year, so they keep shipping the same map until the v6 is realeased?

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unclebill · Regular Visitor Joined: Nov 19, 2004 Posts: 62

But satnav , or rather the application manufacturers , could do the navigation so much better . If the road ends in a river , or at a farmers gate , then the guidance should give you this information . I bet if you were driving down a country lane on a foggy night , and the road disappeared , the first words that were spoken would be b****** satnav !

lupos0_1 · Posted: Sun Oct 09, 2005 10:17 am Post subject:

Doesn't tomtom actually show you if a road ends Rolling Eyes

????

I understand that a paper map is cheaper than the sat nav system but they don't give turn by turn directions, speed camera warnings, poi's or a lot of other features.

It is impossible to keep the road layouts up to date and tomtom can only use what they are given.

If people have issues with the maps, report them and hopefully when v6 comes out tomtom will have received the updated maps. The more people report the errors, the more information should be put right for the next one.

Common sense definitely has to be used and at the end of the day, if it guided you only one street away, stop moaning and just drive there. If it guides you into a river, use a bit of common sense and stop before the water hits the tyres.

The thing I can't believe is that these people expect thesystem to do everything for them.

The next thing we will read in the paper is that somebody has crashed and blamed it on the satnav as it didn't show the cars in front slowing down. Rolling Eyes

Some people haven't got a scooby have they????

unclebill · Regular Visitor Joined: Nov 19, 2004 Posts: 62

Well unfortunately tomtom does not always tell you if a road ends .If you read the posts there are examples of roads blocked, and blocked for years, by bollards , roads that "end" in a farm track , or are just unusable . I have experience of one instruction to turn into a road and branch onto an unmetalled track , the other end of which was blocked by thick wooden posts.
I didn't take the route , common sense prevailed , but that doesn't alter the fact that such errors exist .

lupos0_1 · Posted: Sun Oct 09, 2005 11:09 am Post subject:

I agree with all the comments that these errors exist, I have encountered them myself. The point I am trying to make is that the map errors are the responsibility of Teleatlas, they provide the maps to tomtom

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unclebill · Regular Visitor Joined: Nov 19, 2004 Posts: 62

Hi Luposo-1
Didn't say they were TomToms fault , only that TomTom does not always show you that the road ends. That was the question that you asked.

trevor.dowle · Lifetime Member Joined: 16/06/2003 05:22:14 Posts: 412

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