London congestion charge re-routing with StreetPilot?

Frenchie · Regular Visitor Joined: May 28, 2004 Posts: 136

Hello,

With StreetPilot 2610, how can I handle London congestion charge re-routing Question

Thanks in advance,
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VW Passat Saloon (2003)

Tim Buxton · Posted: Thu Jun 24, 2004 6:57 pm Post subject:

As far as I know, you can't.
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Tim

Frenchie · Regular Visitor Joined: May 28, 2004 Posts: 136

I would have to add manually POIs on all 'corners' or main roads circling the congestion charge???
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StreetPilot 2610 (Garmin)
VW Passat Saloon (2003)

Tim Buxton · Posted: Thu Jun 24, 2004 7:19 pm Post subject:

Yep!! 'Fraid so.
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Tim

Frenchie · Regular Visitor Joined: May 28, 2004 Posts: 136

Thanks Tim,

I would be surprised if no private, Garmin reseller or Garmin UK themselves had nod done it before.
Hey, that's an idea. Who's interested? Laughing

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VW Passat Saloon (2003)

Tim Buxton · Posted: Wed Jun 30, 2004 4:24 pm Post subject:

Garmin don't provide an SDK for private users (shame on them), so that one is out.

I doubt if Garmin would do it themselves as they'd be obliged to give it away as opposed to sell it.
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Tim

Frenchie · Regular Visitor Joined: May 28, 2004 Posts: 136

SDK?
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Tim Buxton · Posted: Wed Jun 30, 2004 5:05 pm Post subject:

Software developers' kit. Garmin has one, because it allows other countries to make maps that Garmin can't, or can't be bothered to, make.
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Tim

Darren · Posted: Wed Jun 30, 2004 6:59 pm Post subject:

And the above somewhat flies in the face of the 'a dedicated GPS Nav system is better than a PDA one' argument doesn't it? Thanks to TomTom's SDK we have Safety Camera Alerts and full UK PostCode navigation, neither of which are available to StreetPilot users Wink

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Darren Griffin

Frenchie · Regular Visitor Joined: May 28, 2004 Posts: 136

If prices of TomTom GO go down enough and if it includes functionalities featured by TomTom Navigator 3 for example (POIs, Traffic), I think that the market will go towards more and more dedicated GPS.

But it's not the right thread for that.
See http://www.pocketgpsworld.com/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=9452 Wink

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