Mapshare - Report Error function

[HappyTrucker]

Hi.

I've trawled through these pages and done a search for mapshare, but with all the problems this system seems to be having the number of threads do seem to grow a bit

Anyway, hopefully this will be a quick one. I'm very new to this new software & maps (2 days) so I'm finding the mapshare a bit hard to find info on. It seems it's easy to (un)block a street / reverse traffic / edit street name / Add Missing POI / Edit POI (although why they're there I don't know). These corrections seem to be immediately reflected in the map and the option is given to share the info.

However, for other details like a missing street the only option is to send a report. Now, this is my question - if I add a missing street will this reflect in my map straight away or will I have to wait for an update afterwards? After all, if it's only for MY benefit (unlike the A40 issue which seemed to benefit no-one) then it shouldn't have to be sent should it?

An example - near where a colleague works a new road has been built off a roundabout. It's only a private road (with no name), leading to a building compound but when the TT says "take the 2nd exit" the one needed is in fact now the 3rd. Not a major issue, but I'm sure that there are some people out there who would blindly follow the TT and when it says "first exit" would be straight up that private road. There are other instances on the maps where roads have been built off roundabouts but never completed and are just short dead ends, so this isn't without previous examples.

[GerryC]

At present, only items on the first screen show up on your map and are sent out to others. Items on the "report" screen are sent to TomTom for inclusion in later maps. However, at present, newer maps have not shown any of these amendments so the usefulness of the whole system is questionable.

Editing POIs can be useful - I've changed the position of a local car park so that you can actually get to it (road changes mean that the current map doesn't include the new entrance and the old one is not accessible) though I don't know if that has gone out to anyone else.

There does appear to be a problem with this at present though as I haven't had POI changes sent to me for almost a month.
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Gerry
TomTom730T
Cameralert for Android
Brodit ProClip mount

[kichu1979]

[GerryC]

kichu1979, I see where you are coming from and agree entirely.

However, TomTom have decided to choose to let their customers update the maps that TomTom are currently using (this would be on an older TeleAtlas basemap). It would be assumed by us (TomTom's customers) that changes TomTom make to one version of TeleAtlas's map could be re-used in a future version of the map. The age of the TeleAtlas basemap is irrelevant as TomTom are making changes immediately themselves - not passing back to TeleAtlas for the next map version.

Granted, I have no idea how the data is presented to TomTom from TeleAtlas but I would assume that unchanged features would keep the same index or at least a comparison between old and new indices could be obtained.

All I am saying is that MapShare changes that are made to one TeleAtlas basemap should be able to be made to a subsequent one. If this is not possible, then the usefulness of the MapShare feature is questionable.
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Gerry
TomTom730T
Cameralert for Android
Brodit ProClip mount

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