Multi drops on the Dell X5 using TomTom 5

BurgerKing · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jul 18, 2005 Posts: 8

Lo there people :D

Basically I'm a courier and I have to sometimes do multi drops around the UK. What I would like to know is, can TomTom 5 have my address's type into the pda and then let it work out the quickest route to all of the drops i've got to do. Rather than using "planning ahead" or "itinerary". It's OK when I've got one drop to do. I just enter the address or post code and away I go. But I need to find out how multi drops will work out.

Cheers
Burgerking :P

Masked-Marauder · Regular Visitor Joined: Aug 18, 2005 Posts: 89

This function is not available in TomTom Navigator 5. It will route you in the order you enter the waypoints.

Autoroute can do what you want, and then you can use a converter to convert the route to a format you can import to TomTom. Which is fine if you know your drops the night before.....

BurgerKing · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jul 18, 2005 Posts: 8

many thanks for your advice......... :P

cheers
Burgerking

aj2052 · Posted: Wed Oct 12, 2005 11:06 pm Post subject: Multidrops

This can be done in tt5 by using contacts, I did this recently when house hunting and visiting 8 houses in different areas, I entered all address in Outlook contacts then synced with pda, after i visited each house then held stylus on next address in "contacts" to raise "navigate to" in menu and off you go, admittedly I used autoroute first to assess and print out route, but overall I found it quite easy to preplan this way

Masked-Marauder · Regular Visitor Joined: Aug 18, 2005 Posts: 89

realistic · Posted: Thu Oct 13, 2005 1:40 pm Post subject:

Anyone know where I can find a "converter" from autoroute to TT5
Cheers
Mike

aj2052 · Posted: Thu Oct 13, 2005 3:20 pm Post subject:

Thier is one built in Autoroute 2005, From what I remeber it is an option on Installation called pocket Streets, It shows in drop down menu called "Export maps for Pocket Streets", I have only used this once for street guide before using tomtom and it is limited on amount of data transferred (but it tells you when converting) and i would think main use for town streets guide, do not know if can be used with Gps, This info from memory, but hope it helps.

aj2052 · Posted: Thu Oct 13, 2005 3:30 pm Post subject: Re: Multidrops

Masked-Marauder · Regular Visitor Joined: Aug 18, 2005 Posts: 89

realistic · Posted: Fri Oct 14, 2005 11:43 am Post subject:

Thank you
Mike :D

LiveLifeGoJump · Posted: Fri Oct 14, 2005 3:36 pm Post subject: Re: Multidrops

aj2052 · Posted: Sat Oct 15, 2005 11:08 am Post subject:

Admittedly having only tried it once, I think you may have to have complete entries including post code, but it worked fine for me, I must have been lucky, will have to have another another go sometime, but I must admit TT5 is not as robust as it should be, My first inkling came in the email address from tomtom i.e. "no_reply@tomtom.com" when registering an account.

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