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wazzzzupmate Regular Visitor
Joined: Jul 05, 2004 Posts: 221 Location: Rochdale
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Posted: Mon Feb 13, 2006 2:16 am Post subject: Southern Ireland |
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Does anyone know of any TomTom maps that provide detailed coverage of Southern Ireland. Not just Dublin. Whilst on the subject of Ireland, the same would be useful for Northern Ireland, not just Belfast.
I have the Great Britain map and Great Britain Plus Map. Is that the best available? |
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peterc10 Frequent Visitor
Joined: Aug 21, 2005 Posts: 1761 Location: Kent, England
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Posted: Mon Feb 13, 2006 10:14 am Post subject: |
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When I last heard Tom Tom coverage of Ireland outside of a few main cities was very poor - am told co-pilot is best. _________________ Peter
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MarkHewitt Frequent Visitor
Joined: Nov 16, 2004 Posts: 1077 Location: Chester-le-Street & York
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Posted: Mon Feb 13, 2006 2:21 pm Post subject: |
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I would like full coverage of even just Dublin. I know it's available, just look at Google maps.
But the best TomTom can do is major roads it seems. Even though they specifically mention Dublin as being part of the Great Britain plus map. |
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Steve101 Occasional Visitor
Joined: Oct 25, 2004 Posts: 43 Location: Wexford, Republic of Ireland
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Posted: Tue Feb 14, 2006 1:07 am Post subject: |
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Copilot 6 is definitely the best product for Southern Ireland. It has the Dublin area fully mapped and other major ciites such as Cork and Limerick fully mapped too. Areas with the most detailed maps are around the coast. The more in-land towns and cities really have only the main roads going through them.
Almost all towns and the smaller cities such as Kilkenny, Carlow, etc, are not mapped apart from the main roads
To put this in percentage, it has 39% of the country mapped in the Copilot product.
Motorway, National and Regional roads are all mapped but 99% of the backroads are not.
Northern Ireland has got 100% coverage in CP6.
If you want 100% coverage of Southern Ireland your best bet is to look at www.mapquest.com
As far as I know this is the best website for maps of the Republic. |
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wazzzzupmate Regular Visitor
Joined: Jul 05, 2004 Posts: 221 Location: Rochdale
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Posted: Tue Feb 14, 2006 9:46 am Post subject: |
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Thanks, may as well stick to GB Plus Map and a paper map (If anyone remembers them things!!) Not worth investing in a new product that only covers 39%. |
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paddytt Occasional Visitor
Joined: Feb 26, 2006 Posts: 1
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Posted: Sun Feb 26, 2006 10:11 pm Post subject: |
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Anyone got any information on when TomTom will include the Republic of Ireland in their maps?
www.mapquest.com have it mapped pretty well so the data must exist!
Thanks
TT |
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Skippy Pocket GPS Verifier
Joined: 24/06/2003 00:22:12 Posts: 2946 Location: Escaped to the Antipodies! 36.83°S 174.75°E
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Posted: Mon Feb 27, 2006 1:01 am Post subject: |
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paddytt wrote: | Anyone got any information on when TomTom will include the Republic of Ireland in their maps? |
Write to TomTom and hound them about it!
They use maps from TeleAtlas and this is why they have poor coverage.
Other vendors (CoPilot, Garmin etc) use Navteq maps which have coverage of M, N and R roads and street level coverage for places like Waterford, Limerick and Dubin. It isn't great but it's better than a paper map! _________________ Gone fishing! |
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spile Regular Visitor
Joined: May 08, 2004 Posts: 163
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Posted: Tue Mar 07, 2006 2:29 pm Post subject: |
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Drove all over the republic last year. TT was next to useless. Medion at least gave me the major (and some minor) roads.
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