"Latest Map Guarantee" and new maps

[Stewart166]

Looked on the FAQ but couldn't find a reference to this - apologies if it has been asked before.

I will be going to Italy soon and intend to buy the Italy map for my 720. My question is - does the "latest map guarantee" apply to maps you download from Tomtom, or only that which came with the device?

If the latter, does anyone have a guess at when the Italy map is likely to be updated next? According to Tomtom home the current version is 715, but there is no indication of how recent it is.

cheers

[andy-c1]

[DennisN]

The 720 came out with Western Europe map v705, upgraded to v710 soon after (but not soon enough for many people to get it free within 30 days of purchasing their 720s ). v715 is the latest, released a month or so ago, (too late for some people to get it free within 30 days of purchasing their 920s ).

If I were going "soon", I wouldn't bother - how many changes will be on it compared with what you've got on your existing map? All of them will be probably at least 12 months out of date, if not more.

A newer map MAY be made available after the 930/730/530 hits the street, any day now, but may be held back until they've sold enough of the x30 series.
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[Andy_P]

The Latest Map guarantee is ONLY applicable when you buy hardware, not software/maps.

But as Dennis says, you probably won't notice any difference between what you have on your 720 already and the latest offering.

Assume 1 million small map errors across Europe.
Assume every new map release cures 10 thousand of them and adds another 1 thousand.

You might come across one or two errors on your trip, but the chance that they will be ones that were fixed in a subsequent version is pretty small...

(Numbers completely off the top of my head, by the way!)

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