MapShare speed limits - exact location, is it possible?

Privateer

Hi,

A week or so ago I decide to bite the bullet and buy an update to the current map and also a year's Map Update Service, so that I could run for a year with the latest maps available.

As a result I've started to become interested in TomTom's MapShare feature. I'm still very much a MapShare novice. However one of my questions is this:

Is it possible to place the exact spot where the speed limit changes, or must you just use the nearest available "section" to highlight or unhighlight as necessary?

Regards,
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mikealder · Posted: Mon May 18, 2009 8:55 pm Post subject:

If its a very long road then you need a lot of spare time to get it right, to be honest its too difficult in use to even bother with it IMHO, setting a motorway back to its correct 70MPH status (such as the end of the M61 near Manchester) is about as far as I will go these days - Mike

Privateer · Posted: Mon May 18, 2009 9:23 pm Post subject:

Hi Mike,

Thanks for the reply.

I guessed that it might be difficult to be accurate with the speed limit - it's a new toy for me and I'm trying out some of the features that need updating in my area.

I have a new road to add to the map, and where it connects with existing roads there is new roundabout to add to the map at each end of the new road. Looks like fun! Wink

Regards,
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chrisjr · Occasional Visitor Joined: Feb 26, 2006 Posts: 32

You won't see the new road or roundabout though. Anything that would involve re-drawing the map will not appear on your device with Map Share.

All you can do is notify TomTom of the changes and hope they get included on a future map update (probably in 2020 Laughing

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JaguarV12e · Posted: Mon May 18, 2009 10:03 pm Post subject:

I think you will be disappointed.

You can only set the speed limit for a whole segment of road, which in most cases means the section between 2 intersections, except where Tomtom themselves have noticed the speed limit changing within a segment, and split the segment at that point.

I haven't tried the new mapshare features in 8.35, but the user interface is probably still exceedingly bad, and any new road you try to add will not be visible on your map within your lifetime.

I was enthuisiastic about mapshare, and made about 1000 corrections on one version of map (to the point that mapshare started deleting the old ones when I added a new one), but of those, none have been transferred to later maps, so I don't bother any more.

I now contribute my map corrections to openstreetmap.org, where I can see the results, and am looking forward to the day when I have an ICN device using those maps, and never spend another penny with Tomtom.
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Dennis, I think you need to change your signature.

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