Always carry a map

Brock · Posted: Thu May 19, 2005 6:56 pm Post subject: Always carry a map

I have just returned from a trip up to lock Ness in Scotland. I thought the trip would be plain sailing with the aid of my TomTom Nav software helping me along my route.

Things were going great until I was just over 20 miles from Edinburgh on the A1. As the road has changed since the map was programmed into the software, it showed me driving up a field next to a railway line. :D After about 5 minutes all that showed was a compass and my speed. Then the whole lot crashed and I could not even switch my ppc off. Of course when I stopped, I could not remember what it said in the manual if to press the reset button on flick the on/off switch. I picked the second option and wiped tomtom off my ppc. Embarassed

After that, it was a case of finding a petrol station and buying one of those massive folded maps of Scotland for a fiver. Luckly we managed to navigate without any problems for the rest of the trip the good old fashioned way.

£5 versus over £300. Keep your old map book handy. You never know when you might need it. Wink

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alix776 · Posted: Thu May 19, 2005 7:39 pm Post subject:

the a1 has been upgraded recently and the new path of the road would not be it the programe how ever the old road would be theres various threads on at the moment on the site about roads missing or not in the right place. ive used tt3 earlier this year in scotland and although i found my way round tt3 is around a year old and due to be updated by v5 but you have to remember that as soon as the map has been released then it will be out of date as th highways agency change road layouts and put duel carrage way in on a six to three monthly bassis if you had switched to map veiw and zoomed out a little thn you would have seen the old road with the route plnned on it satnav is elxelent but you still have to engage you brain somtimes and say right the it says im going through a field oh joy they cange the road
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gune · Posted: Thu May 19, 2005 10:34 pm Post subject:

hi, it just shows that also sometimes machines with most modern technology are liable to crash / unreliable at times...
i was reading once a trakkers site, where it said always carry a compass and a routine map as well .. yes i know for trakkers ..
but i think that is true for drivers as well minus a compass 8)

Synth · Posted: Fri May 20, 2005 12:44 am Post subject:

Maybe it got confused as there is no such place as Lock Ness; try Loch Ness next time.

MarkHewitt · Posted: Fri May 20, 2005 9:05 am Post subject:

I've driven that road you mention. Yes TomTom does get very confused the whole time as it desperately tries to place you on some sort of road. However as soon as I got back onto the roads it knew about it started behaving itself again and all was well.

Strange that you wiped your PPC! Usually a soft reset sorts these things out, and that doesn't wipe anything!

Brock · Posted: Fri May 20, 2005 12:56 pm Post subject:

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