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Dang
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 Posted: Wed Nov 12, 2003 9:23 pm Post subject: GPS in ireland? |
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| Im about to take a trip over there for a few days and would like some gps - I have tt2 gb? |
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Dave
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| Posted: Thu Nov 13, 2003 7:30 am Post subject: |
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First of all I would check where you are going and look at it on the TomTom Navigator 2 map screen and see what coverage there seems to be. Ireland coverage isn't great in most of the Navigation packages.
I don't quite get your question though, if you have TTN2, you don't have any GPS Hardware ? |
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Skippy
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| Posted: Thu Nov 13, 2003 9:14 am Post subject: |
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GPS Mapping of Ireland sucks, unfortunately. I use Garmin's Mapsource and it covers Dublin, Belfast and not much else.  |
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Dang
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| Posted: Thu Nov 13, 2003 9:48 am Post subject: |
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| I want some mapping software for ireland. Tomtom dont seem to cover it? |
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chris.hevey
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| I just bought TomTom UK and was amazed to find there was nothing outside Belfast; so much so, I've raised it as a fault. I don't want to get into the politics of it, but when I went to school, poor wee Ballyward was in the UK. TomTom's not doing what it says on the tin and there was nothing on the packaging that gave any clue it had joined the Republic! |
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chris.hevey
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| Posted: Fri Nov 21, 2003 9:02 pm Post subject: |
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Here's a wierd thing.
Some of the POIs, including those you can download from TomTom itself, are in places where there's no map coverage in TTN. This must mean someone has maps of Ireland?
There's that Camping Eire set too - what's that all about? Myybe created with different GPS software? |
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Skippy
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| Posted: Fri Nov 21, 2003 11:24 pm Post subject: |
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| chris.hevey wrote: | | I just bought TomTom UK and was amazed to find there was nothing outside Belfast; so much so, I've raised it as a fault. I don't want to get into the politics of it, but when I went to school, poor wee Ballyward was in the UK. TomTom's not doing what it says on the tin and there was nothing on the packaging that gave any clue it had joined the Republic! |
Did you buy TomTom United Kingdom or Great Britain? I see they now advertise it as Great Britain which doesn't include Northern Ireland. |
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Dave
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| Posted: Sat Nov 22, 2003 10:51 am Post subject: |
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| It has always been listed as TomTom Navigator 2 GB, but they have included parts of Ireland. I guess because it was no where complete they couldn't really call it UK when it wasn't giving anywhere near 100% coverage of Ireland. |
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Parky
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| Posted: Sat Nov 22, 2003 3:23 pm Post subject: |
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Over in Southern Ireland next week, I have loaded Mapopolis and relavent maps for my journey. My main GPS mapping is Tom Tom, but they cannot come up with the goods for Souther Ireland.
Mapopolis do have good coverage now of Ireland.
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chris.hevey
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| Skippy wrote: | | Did you buy TomTom United Kingdom or Great Britain? I see they now advertise it as Great Britain which doesn't include Northern Ireland. |
I bought GB. I'm no expert on British Constitution but I always thought the terms UK and GB were interchangable - at least in the sense of the territory covered. If it said something like "Mainland Britain" that would be more accurate, but it does cover the Shetland Isles etc., so that wouldn't be true. With regard the commercial viability, I would think they would sell quite a few more copies in Eire than they would in Orkney and all the other places like that. I realise TomTom's probably being let down by its data provider, but I do feel that they ought to issue the data as a free upgrade when it becomes available.
I wouldn't mind paying for data for the Republic though, as this is a different country. I was going to buy the European Maps CD assuming it would contain Ireland. Glad I found out in time. I'll hang fire now until it does... |
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Skippy
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| chris.hevey wrote: | | I always thought the terms UK and GB were interchangable |
I used wonder what the difference was too.
"Great Britain" includes England Scotland and Wales. Distinct from this is "The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland". The difference is subtle but quite important. Indeed, before 1921, the United Kingdom included all of Ireland and as we know, wars have been waged over this.
| chris.hevey wrote: | | I wouldn't mind paying for data for the Republic though, as this is a different country. I was going to buy the European Maps CD assuming it would contain Ireland. Glad I found out in time. I'll hang fire now until it does... |
I travel in Ireland a fair bit too and wish there were better maps available. I have Garmin's European maps which only really cover Dublin and Belfast and a few other odd areas in Ireland.
Garmin's maps are based on NavTech data and this doesn't appear to cover Ireland. Maybe it's too expensive for them to map or there is just not enough demand, I don't know. |
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