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lyngarth Occasional Visitor
Joined: Sep 15, 2005 Posts: 56
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Posted: Sat Oct 08, 2005 2:56 pm Post subject: |
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Bazza wrote: | I must admit, I was more than a little dissapointed when I tried to navigate to my father's bungalow. His house number is 19 yet TTG said the highest number for that street is 17. He's been in the bungalow for over 6 years now, since it was built. |
Same here, my house is not on the map as well, goes upto No.36 and I live at No.44. but when I use my brothers car, which has Sat Nav bulit in, I can get home to the right front door. (good old Renault )
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sbcco Occasional Visitor
Joined: Jun 27, 2005 Posts: 14 Location: Aberdeen, Scotland
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Posted: Mon Dec 05, 2005 8:58 pm Post subject: |
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Could somebody with teh current TomTom maps look up and tell me where Bridlington, Kirkcaldy and Bathgate are?
I have viaMichelin running on my Tungsten (which, I'm told, uses the same map source as TT). In each of the above (and on the viaMichelin website) asking for these towns (the town centre, not a specific street) you will get Beverley, Dunfermline and Livingston. I wonder if these errors are in the underlying maps or in a the way the user application links to them.
These aren't the only errors - postcode or address searches need a bit of ingenuity at times. For my home, a search on my home town, then street, gets me to the same named street in a town 15 miles away. I always keep an AA road atlas handy when plotting routes. Having said that, the user interface on a Palm is quite good when navigating. The VM software also has a PC application that allows you to work out routes on that, or to select just portions of a country map to load onto the Palm. _________________ Steve @ Aberdeen
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forky Lifetime Member
Joined: Sep 18, 2005 Posts: 277 Location: Helston
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Posted: Mon Dec 05, 2005 9:36 pm Post subject: |
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can you give me your address and I will see where it takes me on my 700 _________________ Garmin Nuvi 2699lmt
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Vortex Occasional Visitor
Joined: Dec 06, 2005 Posts: 12 Location: UK
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Posted: Wed Dec 07, 2005 9:12 am Post subject: |
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Just bought a TT One and Bridlington, Kirkcaldy and Bathgate seem to be in the correct place. The latest application update for the GO series (5.420) should solve your naming problem. According to the TomTom site - "Streets with the same name in towns that are close together are not confused in this version". |
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sbcco Occasional Visitor
Joined: Jun 27, 2005 Posts: 14 Location: Aberdeen, Scotland
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Posted: Wed Dec 07, 2005 9:19 pm Post subject: |
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Vortex wrote: | Just bought a TT One and Bridlington, Kirkcaldy and Bathgate seem to be in the correct place. The latest application update for the GO series (5.420) should solve your naming problem. According to the TomTom site - "Streets with the same name in towns that are close together are not confused in this version". |
Thanks - sounds like TomTom have recognised a problem another supplier doesn't. Have spoken to somebody who's just bought the latest viaMichelin and they tell me these towns are still in the wrong place. It looks like the errors aren't in the actual maps but in the way the application uses them.
Thanks again. _________________ Steve @ Aberdeen
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ringostarr Occasional Visitor
Joined: Dec 19, 2005 Posts: 19
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Posted: Mon Dec 19, 2005 4:24 am Post subject: |
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TT300_Owner wrote: | CR0 3JP should be Purley Way, Croydon. TT gives Ockley Road which Royal Mail gives as CR0 3DQ!!! And then it won't accept number 76 Purley Way - says it doesn't exist.
BN41 1GN should be Norway Street. TT gives Symbister Road...
CB6 3WL should be Columbine Road. TT gives as Mallow Close. |
I have just checked these on my new TTGO 700
ONE of them is fixed .... CB6 3WL now lists as Columbine Rd the others listed are the same.
One note however tho ... CR0 3DQ also lists as Ockley Road so maybe CR0 3JP is just simply a typo ... does it deliver you to the right place? _________________ Renault Laguna Tourer (estate) |
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tomcat76 Lifetime Member
Joined: Aug 18, 2004 Posts: 100 Location: West London
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Posted: Mon Dec 19, 2005 9:55 pm Post subject: |
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Oldboy wrote: |
You won't be able to email the file, even when zipped. It's nearly 10MB. |
Why not? my mbx excepts 50Mb emails.... and I have emailed 40mb+ to a friend...
Its 13Mb in zip size via email its apporx 18Mb. _________________ Regards Steve :-) |
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crazyken Occasional Visitor
Joined: Jan 18, 2006 Posts: 7
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Posted: Wed Feb 01, 2006 10:28 am Post subject: |
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Why not try www.yousendit.com you can then send up to 1gig files to anyone :D |
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acmp Regular Visitor
Joined: Feb 03, 2006 Posts: 117
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Posted: Wed Feb 08, 2006 11:21 am Post subject: |
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This is all fascinating.
I'm new to TT and have TTn5.21 on PPC2003 and have discovered an annoying error in Nottingham (castle meadow retail park access from Queens road, the 'unnamed road' doesn't join the island on the map but does in reality) I have map v605
So who the heck do I report this too and what can I do about it?
I'm in agreement with those here who say it's tomtom's responsibility but I don't want to waste my time if they just ignore you.
Also is there a place on the web that I can add errors to, some sort of public repository, so that people can benefit from the error reporting of the masses? (if not then maybe this site would like to start one)
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Oldboy Pocket GPS Moderator
Joined: Dec 08, 2004 Posts: 10643 Location: Suffolk, UK
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Posted: Wed Feb 08, 2006 7:46 pm Post subject: |
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acmp wrote: | TSo who the heck do I report this too and what can I do about it? |
You can report to TomTom. You'll need to Login.
You can also report to TeleAtlas, and note that you have to select Great Britain, NOT United Kingdom, as the Country. _________________ Richard
TT 910 V7.903: Europe Map v1045
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acmp Regular Visitor
Joined: Feb 03, 2006 Posts: 117
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Posted: Fri Feb 10, 2006 10:55 am Post subject: |
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Thanks Oldboy, but why do I have this odd feeling that my comments to tomtom will be filed under B for bin
As there are so many anomilies with the mapping data is there a way to edit the map so that it includes the correct info?
I ask this as today I got sent down a road that is now closed at one end(Crocus street, Nottingham), I turned around only to see that where I had come in was one way so I couldn't even get back. Tomtom wouldn't get me out as it insisted I drive through the barrier at the end of the road.
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Andy_P Pocket GPS Moderator
Joined: Jun 04, 2005 Posts: 19991 Location: West and Southwest London
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Posted: Fri Feb 10, 2006 11:47 am Post subject: |
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Nope. There's no way to edit the map yourself.
It's probably more complicated than you'd think, as for every junction the map needs to report to TomTom every combination of 'turn allowed' or 'not allowed' from every possible direction.
All I do, is make a POI category for "Map errors" with a warning triangle icon to remind me where the problems that I've found are.
That also means I can just send that POI file off to TomTom to report the errors (just like reporting speed cameras to this site).
Unfortunatly, TeleAtlas will not accept error reports in .ov2 format though. |
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acmp Regular Visitor
Joined: Feb 03, 2006 Posts: 117
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Posted: Fri Feb 10, 2006 5:07 pm Post subject: |
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I've seen a lot of stuff about the TT SDK. How practical do you think it would be to write an app that avoids certain POI's? If it could be done then you could just POI dead ends and such and the route planner would not send you the wrong way?
Maybe this level of sophistication is just beyond satnav at this time.
Overall I'm still happy with TTn5.
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AlanK Regular Visitor
Joined: Mar 17, 2005 Posts: 248 Location: Edinburgh
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Posted: Mon Feb 13, 2006 1:23 am Post subject: |
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A LOT of scottish (at least) villages and towns dont seem to appear on map v605!!
I have reported this to Tom Tom over a month ago and they are now aware of the problem but I have yet to get a suitable response.
The streets in these places appear if you can find them on the map but the town/village name does not so you cant navigate to them (e.g. Leitholm & Greenlaw were the examples I used but there are loads more!) |
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Frazz Occasional Visitor
Joined: Dec 10, 2005 Posts: 40 Location: Gotham City
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Posted: Mon Feb 13, 2006 10:33 pm Post subject: |
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I've got v605 on my TT1 and have no problem finding Leitholm and Greenlaw. They're about 6 miles apart via the A647 and B6461.
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