Possible go-around to problem of dodgy roads

[ispartacus75]

As many of you are aware there are a lot of roads in both TT3 and TT5 that are wrong. Either they are un-named, mispelled, mis-named or just missing all together in the case of new estates. This can be extremely annoying especially as I am a taxi driver and I use TT for areas that Im not too sure on.

Anyway I have started to develop a POI database called missing roads. If a road isnt on my TT map as an address to navigate to I go and look in the missing roads POI and see if its there. It cant give me house numbers but it can at least put me in the right road.

I have had things as silly as Queenswood Avenue being spelt Oueenswood Avenue.

So I have a couple of questions.

1) If you are able to would you like to compile a list of the problem roads in your area? This may not help you but if we can put all of these lists together and compile a national POI database for missing roads it will help TT users who are visiting your area.

2) Would the Pocket GPS team be interested in adding this POI database to their list and allow every user of the site access to the database.

Like I have said, compiling a list if the roads in your own area isnt really likely to help you that much as chances are you already know where they are however anyone visiting your area or if you are visiting another area yourself would I believe find a huge amount of help in this database.

I would like to hear peoples views and if the team back to me on it I will be happy to upload my part of the database to get it started.

[Peter Kessler]

Count me in. I'll do the north London count again.

[ispartacus75]

Great thats one. Im covering Merseyside. More than 1 in each area would be great aswell. Less chance of missing anything. Got a little modified POI icon sorted aswell

[ispartacus75]

Yet another post.

One extra thought. I have created my POI in the form:
Briardale Road, Birkenhead

That way if there is another cocked up road with the same name elsewhere in the country we arent likely to get mixed up and end up in Dudley or somewhere 200 miles from where we should have been.

[CJackel492]

I think thats a great idea,

I would help, I can do local area's around Bognor Regis and Chichester,

I will have to start poking about and exploring the area to find missing roads,

Carl,

Also how about compiling a map error POI?
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[Peter Kessler]

Here's my lot. I can send you an Excel file if preferred.

Cowley Hill London N10 should be Fortismere Avenue London N10
Apple Farm Grange London N10 should be Leaside Avenue London N10
Latimer Street London N10 should be Collingwood Avenue London N10
Couper Meadows London N10 should be Midhurst Avenue London N10
Webb Road London N2 should be Lynmouth Road London N2
Emperor Way London N2 should be Springcroft Avenue London N2
Tredrea Lane London N2 should be Twyford Avenue London N2
Boyce Drive London N10 should be Springfield Avenue London N10
Woodley Lane London N10 should be Meadow Drive London N10
Britannia Crescent London N6 should be Archway Road London N6
Boswell Close London N6 should be North Hill London N6
Guys Road London N6 should be Gaskell Road London N6
Hungerford Gardens London N6 should be Talbot Road London N6
Talbot Avenue London N6 should be Bishops Road London N6
Cork Street London N6 should be Bloomfield Road London N6
Severnwood Gdns London N6 should be Grange Road London N6
Coombe Vale London N6 should be View Close London N6
Penny's Close London N6 should be Broadlands Close London N6
Pulteney Mews London N6 should be Hillcrest London N6
Dock Road London N6 should be Southwood Lane London N6
Behind Hayes London N6 should be Hillside Gardens London N6
Manor Farm Court London N6 should be Jacksons Lane London N6
Bowring Close London N6 should be Southwood Lawn Rd London N6
Lockwood Close London N6 should be Southwood Avenue London N6
Dick Pym Close London N6 should be Highgate Avenue London N6
Attwyll Avenue London N6 should be Kingsley Place London N6
Attwyll Avenue London N6 should be Somerset Gardens London N6
Rectory Drive London N6 should be Cholmeley Park London N6
Rayners London N6 should be Cholmeley Crescent London N6
Gregson Close London N6 should be Causton Road London N6
Hillsborough London N6 should be Shepherd's Hill London N6
Lower Cock Road London N6 should be Shepherd's Close London N6
Chichester Drive London N6 should be Holmesdale Road London N6
Lye Copse Avenue London N6 should be Northwood Road London N6
Vachell Crescent London N6 should be Langdon Park Road London N6
Vachell Crescent London N6 should be Hornsey Lane Gdns London N6
Little Silver Lane London N6 should be Wembury Road London N6
The Ride London N6 should be Tudor Close London N6
Bourn Rise London N6 should be Hornsey Lane Gdns London N6
Highlands Drive London N6 should be Milton Avenue London N6
Ferenberge Close London N6 should be Milton Road London N6
Lambley Road London N6 should be Stanhope Road London N6
Endsleigh View London N6 should be Stanhope Gardens London N6
Endsleigh View London N6 should be Claremont Road London N6
Fleming Place London N6 should be Hurst Avenue London N6
Fannystone Road London N7 should be Eden Grove London N7
West Lea London N7 should be Hornsey Street London N7
Whimbrel Way London N7 should be Hartnoll Street London N7
Mordaunt Avenue London N7 should be Palmer Place London N7
Gembling Lane London N7 should be Drayton Park London N7

[ispartacus75]

An excel file would be excellent as I can get
poi Edit to convert them straight into an ov2 file.

Do you have the full co-ordinates in the excel file?

[ispartacus75]

[Peter Kessler]

No, I don't have the coordinates. I would just locate the incorrectly named street and add the POI to it like that.

[CJackel492]

[ispartacus75]

ok send it over to me anyway and I will see what I can do with it. POI Edit can open excel files and then create POIs from it to add to a database.

My email address is ispartacus75**antispam**@hotmail.com

remove the stars and antispam to send me the file over

[ispartacus75]

[Peter Kessler]

Well, I've now got a TeleAtlas employee in London to resubmit internally the map errors I'd reported already. I've also got an employee of Navshop to do the same, and the TomTom customer service team said they would do it too (but I don't believe them). Plus I've submitted them through both the TomTom and the TeleAtlas online report forms myself, and I've personally emailed the CEO of TeleAtlas to complain about the situation.

But I still bet nothing will happen.

[CJackel492]

[ispartacus75]

Why doesnt it surprise me that very few people got intouch over this thread despite the fact that it was guarenteed to fix a lot of the mapping issues within both TT3 and TT5

Yet another forum full of plenty of whiners who will complain about the software but very few do-ers who will actually help in solving the problem.

Thank you to the ones that got in touch but to be honest without any other respeonce from the rest of the forum there is little point in continuing. With only the Wirral and North London areas covered there isnt really much damn point.

As for the rest of you, stop your bloddy whining if you aint prepared to help fix it!!!!!!!!!!

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