post codes 885.xxxx maps

entwood · Regular Visitor Joined: Jul 31, 2005 Posts: 117

I see from the latest map .. 885.4009 Western Europe a pair of "new" files ..
postal_GBR.ttd and postal_NLD.ttd

Are these new postcode files and I can delete the old "zip" folder that held the post codes .. or is it something completely different ??

DennisN · Posted: Sat Feb 25, 2012 9:04 am Post subject:

The jury is still out on this one. At the moment I can't find the link, but it has been wondered in another thread, where someone did try deleting it and the postcodes didn't work. It may depend on model.
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Anita · Posted: Sat Feb 25, 2012 10:03 am Post subject:

IanS100 · Posted: Sat Feb 25, 2012 11:00 am Post subject:

Hi Dennis, I tried it on my 550 by renaming zip and found that searches only returned the first part of the Postcode - after renaming it back to zip full Postcode searches were restored

edit:

You beat me to it - but I've no idea why post time says 11.00 because it's 10.03??? Shocked

Anita · Posted: Sat Feb 25, 2012 11:07 am Post subject:

IanS100 · Posted: Sat Feb 25, 2012 11:42 am Post subject:

Doh!!

Thanks Anita it was GMT + 1hr, all sorted now Very Happy

mccririck · Posted: Sat Feb 25, 2012 2:01 pm Post subject:

Does this mean they have now integrated the postcodes into the maps?

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Anita · Posted: Sat Feb 25, 2012 3:30 pm Post subject:

metradio · Posted: Sat Feb 25, 2012 3:58 pm Post subject:

pcaouolte · Posted: Sat Feb 25, 2012 6:45 pm Post subject:

TomTom have integrated the postcodes into the map updates. The postal_GBR.ttd and postal_NLD.ttd are identical to the corresponding files in the zip folder.

Unfortunately it has been demontrated by IanS100 that they are not using the newly integrated files on devices running Navcore 9.400.

We dont know yet if they are using the new postcode files on newer Nav3 devices (GO 1000 etc). There is very little difference in size between the version 885 and version 880 postcode files so it will be hard to find a postcode which has changed in the latest release.
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Oldboy · Posted: Sun Feb 26, 2012 8:47 am Post subject:

pcaouolte · Posted: Sun Feb 26, 2012 9:24 am Post subject:

That's strange Richard. AB101AB appears in both my 880 and 885 postcode files. My 885 file is 9,205,345 bytes, is your 885 file a different size to mine?
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Oldboy · Posted: Sun Feb 26, 2012 3:22 pm Post subject:

My 885 file is also 9,205,345 bytes.

Just realised my error Embarassed

it should read "AB101AA is in the 880 file, but not in the 885!"
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pcaouolte · Posted: Sun Feb 26, 2012 7:44 pm Post subject:

Thank you Richard and well spotted.

AB101AA is not in the latest 885 postcode file but was in 880, 875 and 870.

So if someone with one of the new locked down devices (GO1000 etc) and the latest 885 map could check if they have the postcode AB101AA then we will know if those devices are now using the new postcode files contained within the updated map.
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