Mapshare Gremlin's at work ?

maca2 · Frequent Visitor Joined: Jul 10, 2005 Posts: 303

I've done many trips from Portsmouth to London way via the A3 & my Go has always worked faultlessly but the last two trips have been odd & I have put it down to mapeshare but want your opinion.

I get to Guilford on the A3 & it tells me to turn off taking me off the A3 then connect back onto the A3 just past Guilford, I know this is wrong so I stay on the A3 & get to my destination after it reroutes. This has happened twice so today,at home, I set that route again looked at where it takes me off the A3 & used map corrections to unblock that part of the A3 at Guliford then as if by magic when I put the route in again it's all back to normal keeping me on the A3.

Is it a good time to turn mapshare off if so how do you remove all mapshare updates from the past off the unit or do you think it is something else that has caused this road to be blocked.

Thanks

dhn · Posted: Wed Aug 12, 2009 6:47 pm Post subject:

In Home--Mapshares--Remove all changes (or whatever the proper naming is) but that's how you can do it.
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Andy_P · Posted: Thu Aug 13, 2009 3:42 am Post subject:

In Home.... it's the Tools menu / Mapshare / Remove corrections you need.

maca2 · Frequent Visitor Joined: Jul 10, 2005 Posts: 303

OK thanks I will do that

MrT · Posted: Thu Aug 13, 2009 11:53 am Post subject:

You might just want to change your level of trust on map share corrections to a higher level so only those verified by TomTom or TT+ Trusted Sources (whoever they are). Lower levels of trust can lead to these issues where people block roads through their village to try to reduce traffic etc.

There are many different points of view on here from trust everyone to don't even trust TomTom so try different settings to see which is the best for you.
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maca2 · Frequent Visitor Joined: Jul 10, 2005 Posts: 303

falkirk81 · Posted: Thu Aug 13, 2009 2:59 pm Post subject:

How about just leave the trust settings as they were, and correct the 'closed' road and reopen it? That way Tomtom will get reports of it actually NOT being blocked.

If you don't report it, then they will never know it is actually open!
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maca2 · Frequent Visitor Joined: Jul 10, 2005 Posts: 303

falkirk81 · Posted: Thu Aug 13, 2009 3:21 pm Post subject:

It should use your corrections over anybody elses! Whats the co ordinates of the affected area and i`ll check it out on my two devices! Smile

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maca2 · Frequent Visitor Joined: Jul 10, 2005 Posts: 303

MrT · Posted: Thu Aug 13, 2009 4:11 pm Post subject:

Tried it on fastest route on both the 530 and 940 using latest maps and software and both take me straight up the A3 through Guildford and out the other side. Tried the opposite direction and this also works fine. I use strict as my map share settings.

Are you using shortest route or any other type of route rather than fastest?
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mikealder · Posted: Thu Aug 13, 2009 4:14 pm Post subject:

To make sure this isn't due to IQ Routes data you should also specify date and time of travel and the rough start/ finish locations as these will all have a bearing on the route the device decides to use. In addition what Navcoe version and map release have you got installed? - Mike

DennisN · Posted: Thu Aug 13, 2009 7:58 pm Post subject:

Last week, in reaction to a small criticism that I don't use Mapshare, I got out my trusty SD card, copied everything to it and then used it to download mapshare "corrections!" with trust level set to accept everything from everybody.

So this week, here's just a few I have found...

M4 60mph stretch going into London from Heathrow set at 59mph, right up to the second (that's NOT the first) 40mph camera.

A344 at Stonehenge variously 59mph and 40mph and 59mph.

B390 from Shrewton toweards Chittern 59mph.

M5 around Junction 9 at 71mph.

OK, so I'm using app8.302 with my map 830, but that's so that I can hear the spoken instructions. The 1mph differences predated v8.302 by quite a considerable margin.
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falkirk81 · Posted: Thu Aug 13, 2009 9:41 pm Post subject:

The +/- 1mph issue is a well documented bug DennisN.

Has been fixed for some time depending on the version of the application on the device!

My 940 does not have this issue. Therefore, negating THAT issue, yes a lot of roads have incorrect speed limits. Tomtom/ Teleatlas ARE getting better at them, but remember, you CAN opt to display only your speed and not the speed of the road.

And more importantly, the Tomtom does NOT use the road speed to determine how long it will take to travel a route. It uses the type (Motorway/ A road dual carriageway/ A road single carriageway etc etc)!

So the issue with the slightly incorrectly displayed road speeds is, IMHO, not worth never using mapshare!

I use it for work, have corrected Newcastle City Centre and surrounds to the point where it never takes me somewhere I cant go etc. With every map update, there are less corrections to make to the data!
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DennisN · Posted: Fri Aug 14, 2009 10:12 pm Post subject:

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