TomTom POI (Our database)'s disadvantages over Road Angel...

TheGame7 · Occasional Visitor Joined: Feb 10, 2005 Posts: 11

Hi,

Just a question out of interest really...

What benefits does one get through investing the big bucks in a system like Road Angel over using Tom Tom with the database provided here by our POI database?

Is it more accurate?

Updated more regularly?

Detects more types of camera?

If someone could answer, it would be great as I just want to know what I miss out on that my friend who has the Road Angel gets.

Cheers.

peterc10 · Posted: Fri Dec 30, 2005 1:39 pm Post subject:

As I understand it the road angel also has radar detection unit as well as a database. So in theory it picks up any camera, whereas the database on this site relies upon the camera being in a fixed position or a position that is regularly used for mobile cameras.

mossman · Regular Visitor Joined: Dec 21, 2005 Posts: 90

Although I believe that within one law recently passed, the use of laser radar detectors will be made illegal, so any benefit that the Road Angel currently has over ordinary GPS units in that area will vanish.

TheGame7 · Occasional Visitor Joined: Feb 10, 2005 Posts: 11

And how does our database compare to others out there?

Does it record pretty much all the camera types out there?

Darren · Posted: Sat Dec 31, 2005 8:08 pm Post subject:

SeventySix · Occasional Visitor Joined: Dec 30, 2005 Posts: 12

I have the original Road Angel (no Sat Nav) and have recently acquired a TT1. The RA has been a life-(and licence)-saver and has always proved accurate. Having bought the unit way back when, I paid £90 for a lifetime subscription to their dBase.

Having added the camera dBase from the good ppl here to my TT1, I am pleased to say that the old RA has not yet warned of a camera that the PGPSW dBase hasn't got.

So far, the only 'advantage' the RA has over the TT PoI alert is that the RA only alerts for cameras in your direction of travel (i.e. no alerts for cameras on the opposite side of single carriageways, no alerts when you're crossing under/over a different stretch of road with a camera on it). Obviously, that's no reflection on the dBase integrity, being as it is a 'limitation' of the TT1 software.

Also, my RA does not cater for red-light cameras (although you'd be pretty brave to jump the lights at any time!) :-P whereas the PGPSW dBase does.

The only other thing I haven't tried with TT1/PGPSW dBase so far are SPECS cameras. I always thought the RA handled these very well, warning you before the start of, emitting a periodic beep and staying red whilst travelling through the 'SPEC stretch'. I've now idea how the TT1/PGPSW dBase handles these.

My RA also came with a radar detection unit, but this is merely a gimmick. By the time the unit has detected a laser gun, you've had it. There's no way on Earth anyone could react quick enough.

This is said as much in the RA manual(!), which leads me to think they included it only so they could say it has radar detection to up sales as, when this RA was first launched, the common mis-conception was that this type of detection was useful (and common-place).

TheGame7 · Occasional Visitor Joined: Feb 10, 2005 Posts: 11

Thanks everyone for taking the time and effort to reply.

Cleared a lot of things up.

Look forward to trying the db with tomtom mobile once I have it up and running.

And will not be concerned that I am getting less benefit just because the db is free!

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