Map Updates via mapshare

rjgreaves · Occasional Visitor Joined: Apr 07, 2006 Posts: 18

got this from tomtom:

GerryC · Posted: Sat Dec 01, 2007 7:35 pm Post subject:

I didn't think new roads or sustantial changes (eg roundabout added) were pushed out through mapshare - only changes to existing roads. I felt that anything on the "report" option was for them to be aware of for the next map version.

Of course I could be wrong as the replies above make no mention of the type of change you reported.

Has anyone found a change like this being passed out through mapshare?
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Andy_P · Posted: Sun Dec 02, 2007 1:33 am Post subject:

Everything I have learnt or read about Mapshare leads me to believe the TomTom representative here is talking absolute Bo***cks.

Mapshare as it stands cannot change any of the drawn mapping, only change attributes of existing roads.
You are merely providing free information for them to (maybe) include on a future map for you to BUY. Evil or Very Mad

Please prove me wrong, TomTom....

vibeone · Lifetime Member Joined: Mar 08, 2006 Posts: 128

DennisN · Posted: Sun Dec 02, 2007 12:28 pm Post subject:

Andy_P · Posted: Sun Dec 02, 2007 8:43 pm Post subject:

What I object to is the impression that they give in their advertising and marketing, which leads you to believe Mapshare offers MUCH more than it actually delivers.

To then have a TomTom service rep compounding that by telling absolute untruths about what Mapshare is capable of, is just plain wrong!

PGPSW doesn't make wildly exaggerated claims about that the Camera database can do and then ignore all the new submissions on the next release anyway.

DennisN · Posted: Sun Dec 02, 2007 10:42 pm Post subject:

rjgreaves · Occasional Visitor Joined: Apr 07, 2006 Posts: 18

DennisN · Posted: Mon Dec 03, 2007 9:34 pm Post subject: Re: Map Updates via mapshare

vibeone · Lifetime Member Joined: Mar 08, 2006 Posts: 128

Just to be clear and calm:

No rjgreaves I would not want any updates applying to a map on your say so alone. Simple as that.

1952kev · Posted: Tue Dec 04, 2007 2:58 pm Post subject:

On that point vibeone, I have my map correction preference set as "accept changes reported by many"

But how many is many? Rolling Eyes

Taking it a bit further, the final option is "changes reported by some"................what is the sum of some? Shocked

We ought to be informed what these ambiguous phrases actually mean.

How many people would we want/need to point out a change before we accepted it as correct?

Fibre · Posted: Tue Dec 04, 2007 3:40 pm Post subject:

over the past 4 years I have reported 8 changes to local roads in the area..
There have been two updates of maps and still don't have them on... one is a road where my mother has been living on an estate for ten years..

we have a push pin in a field for her house.. Embarassed

I would have thought that a road at least 10 years old would have been caught by "the system"
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unwanted · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jan 31, 2006 Posts: 34

Mapshare was implimented for one reason and one reason only...

to help TomTom reduce its cost paying another company for Mapdata, which they can gain from its users for free, which in the long term TomTom will gain extra Money for new maps...

I wouldnt be surprised if at a later date you will have to also subscribe to Mapshare and use it...

btw: I do subscribe to PGPS Speed Camera Database and think it is very good, plus I am not funding TomTom with more of my cash...

DennisN · Posted: Sat Dec 08, 2007 1:15 am Post subject:

Bird_FAT · Occasional Visitor Joined: Aug 31, 2007 Posts: 9

As far as I've been able to work out unwanted you DO have to pay for the service after the first year!

Quote from the TomTom site:
With your new map, you will also enjoy 12 months’ TomTom Map Share™ that allows you to receive map enhancements from the entire Map Share community.

Nice money earner - if it works out! Still, I'm going to keep reporting any changes I find in the (small as it may be) hope that eventually the ... (world will be a better palce, and ... OOPS, carried away there!!!) ... future maps that we all buy have some of them added in/taken out.

At the end of the day, if we all give up on this, then we can't really complain if TomTom don't have all the map corrections that we expect - after all, they are not creating the maps, just buying them off others! And how many people are these others employing to get the data? They are a business and need to make their product financially viable for themselves, so they can't be employing millions of workers, can they?

So let's all give TomTom a chance and see how this Map Share goes - if nothing seems to have changed after my year free is up (I'll keep a note of all my changes), then I won't be paying to continue the service, will I?!

Nuff said,

Bird

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