TT UK version - v5 maps on v3 - working?! Help me confirm!

Tim Buxton

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Joe · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jan 14, 2005 Posts: 50

Tim,

Why is this construed as copyright infringement?

Surely if one has bought legitimate copies of both TTN3 and TTN5, the latter with better maps but poorly performing GPS driver, and there is an obvious wish to use TTN5 maps with TTN3 software this is a legitimate pursuit. Isn't it?

Joe

Loobster · Regular Visitor Joined: Apr 16, 2005 Posts: 66

Indeed. Some prefects just like playground duty a little too much, methinks.

amcluesent · Posted: Fri Aug 05, 2005 6:49 pm Post subject:

>Some prefects...<

Perhaps we need to ask who was allocated shares in TomTom before the company floated on the Amsterdam exchange?

sland · Regular Visitor Joined: Mar 19, 2004 Posts: 144

mikealder · Posted: Fri Aug 05, 2005 7:55 pm Post subject:

I fully agree with the sentiments of the Moderator - but also feel where a product is sub-standard it would be nice to use vs5 maps with vs3 software, trust me the original removed post that was in here does not work - I tried it - followed it to the letter, the actual map being used was the original vs3 map as the instructions told you to re-name it to something else, TT3 is smart enough to find the re-named folder and used that - once it was deleted the vs3 software just came up with the "no maps found" warning - still having "fun" with the ipaq-4700 but the XDA unit is fine on vs5 - but not with checkPOI hence the interest in geting the vs3 OS to work with vs5 map - I posted a question around a month ago which was answered by Lutz Bendlin informing me what to change a specific file value to - but this didn't work - so back to the moderators some degree of common approach to the problem would be appreciated - but as I said at the begining - I fully support you view on this one - Mike

emjaiuk · Posted: Fri Aug 05, 2005 11:08 pm Post subject:

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talltim · Occasional Visitor Joined: Mar 27, 2005 Posts: 11

Tim

You've been heavy handed to say the least.

This is only a breach of copyright issue if you don't own a licence for BOTH products, I do!
Yes I have tt3 on my old ipaq and TT5 on the brand spanking new one.

Shame TT5 is just not up to sctatch, I've given up using it.
I've got the old 1940 back in the car and reverted to a system that actually does navigate on roads not farm tracks and I can use to plan a journey the night before without the need for me to sit in my car in hotel car parks just to get the gps fix.

BUT as I've paid for the TT5 maps I dont think it unreasonable to try and find a solution to poor software so I can use the (more) up to date maps with TT3.

icsys · Posted: Sat Aug 06, 2005 1:05 am Post subject:

All.

Before you start to question why you are not getting replies, Tim is away for one week so is unable to answer your posts.
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emjaiuk · Posted: Sat Aug 06, 2005 9:03 am Post subject:

sland · Regular Visitor Joined: Mar 19, 2004 Posts: 144

I wonder if TomTom has being bringing pressure to bear?

Why trash the whole topic? Surely not every post was "out of bounds" if indeed any were.
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sland · Regular Visitor Joined: Mar 19, 2004 Posts: 144

hogbreath · Posted: Sat Aug 06, 2005 11:40 am Post subject:

Unable to comment just yet on the stability of tt5 as it's still too new for me personally to comment - I do recall going thru many attempts to get tt3 up & running correctly & hopefully that experience will quicken the tt5 procedure.

TT need to be given a chance to react to the problems we are finding, however are open to criticism for some of the issues in just loading up the software that should have been resolved prior to issue.

Copyright law is only infringed when there is intent to sell or distribute copies of said item, for personal use I can't see any pending lawsuits!!!

Pete

talltim · Occasional Visitor Joined: Mar 27, 2005 Posts: 11

Just returned from two weeks in France. Much to wifes disgust I insisted we use both ipaqs for the journey, the new one running 5.1 and the old 3.07.
What a laugh!!
Despite the 5 maps being more up to date and actually showing the new road at one point on the A84 just close to Avaranches 5 told me to turn right onto an unclassified road and when I didn't asked me to turn around! 3 just shows me driving across fields till it replans - not too much of a problem on a motorway.

5 consistently wanted me to travel along a farm tracks (definately NOT suitable for a car!) close to where we were staying and tried several times to send me the wrong way around a one way system that 3 handled perfectly.

In addition the lapses of "concentration" 5 sufferred made 3's more attentive nature much more user friendly in big cities and at complex junctions.

All in all by the time we headed back to Calais even the wife had been swayed toward the view that the 5 ipaq wasn't just a pain in the a**e but almost as good entertainment as the kids dvd system as we always had 3 to tell us the correct way!

Now I have to report that other than the shortcomings of the older mapping and a couple of excursions onto no mans land till you rejoin roads 3 managed to direct us correctly, on all the right roads, and correctly around the one way system!

If I were to be buying either system afresh on the basis of this experience alone it wound be a very easy choice - I would buy 3.

So if anyone has found a way to get 5 maps to work with 3 then for those of us who own both please tell all!!

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