UK and ROI maps now separate??

voice_of_reason · Regular Visitor Joined: Aug 24, 2004 Posts: 102

I was using a colleague's TomTom One with the v7.20 UK and ROI map (I'm still using the old v6.75 map on mine), and noticed that his unit seemed to be treating the UK and ROI as two separate maps.

Is this something new? You haven't always had to change maps to see street level detail in Ireland, have you?

Or is it only seamless on my old v6.75 map because I also have Major Roads of Western Europe?

GerryC · Posted: Thu Jul 24, 2008 7:58 pm Post subject:

In what way do you mean separate maps. Though mine's slightly older (v7.10) and Europe (not UK+ROI), there is a new function when choosing where to navigate to etc.

For example, when choosing to Navigate to... City, you now get a little flag in the corner to say which country you wish to search in that wasn't there in earlier versions. It's not too bad with UK+ROI but was a bit of a pain with Europe maps where you may have to scroll down through names that were nowhere near you.

Just a thought.
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cecilrhode · Regular Visitor Joined: Aug 01, 2007 Posts: 66

UK and Eire are installed in the same map directory - they are part of the same map, but when searching for a place, eg, when browsing the map, you do choose where to look by selecting either UK or Eire as gerry says.

The Europe map v7+ is the same - you select the country first. v6 maps never did that and as a result, if you only typed 2 or 3 letters of the place name, you were presented with literally dozens of places with the same starting letters. By selecting the country first,the choice is narrowed and faster, and it also helps if you're not absolutely sure about the spelling - you won't choose a placename that looks correct but is in the wrong country (you may choose the wrong place but at least its in the correct country!)

Calomax · Posted: Fri Jul 25, 2008 8:30 am Post subject:

GerryC wrote

voice_of_reason · Regular Visitor Joined: Aug 24, 2004 Posts: 102

Thanks everyone for the replies. You were all correct - I was getting mixed up! I had another look at the unit, and it does indeed only have the one UK & ROI map (I checked under 'Switch Maps') - as you all rightly said, it was just the little flag when you're searching for place names that confused me!

Even with the UK selected, it makes no difference to how the map is displayed, and it still shows full detail for Ireland, so that's fine.

Think I'm safe to update my map now!

Thanks for your help.

uffe73 · Posted: Fri Jul 25, 2008 9:35 am Post subject:

Calomax · Posted: Fri Jul 25, 2008 12:14 pm Post subject:

Sorry for the double post earlier Embarassed

. I haven't a clue how I did it, unless it was using the back button and coming across the message for a second time. I'm certain I didn't press "Submit" twice. Perhaps a mod would be good enough to delete one of them for me. Clap

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GPS_fan · Posted: Fri Jul 25, 2008 12:24 pm Post subject:

cecilrhode · Regular Visitor Joined: Aug 01, 2007 Posts: 66

I think its a big improvement. I had Western Europe v6 and it was a pain to Find a place and either having to enter most of the name to be able to see it, or else scrolling through loads of places scattered all over Europe that were nowhere near where you wanted.

Selecting the country is a much better and faster way, and credit to TomTom for improving the actual usability rather than concentrating only on gimmicky visual impact

of course, we want gimmick and fancy graphics and impressive visual sensations, but thats second to actual working........ (isn't it?)

GerryC · Posted: Fri Jul 25, 2008 5:38 pm Post subject:

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