Just got a tom tom one

[BONDENO]

Hi All

This is my first post in this group.Just got a tom tom one what a great product easy to use and very clear.Dissapointed by the mapping system went local to try it out sent me well out of my way on the fastest route missing a road out all together,then tried to take me down a lane i know is a dirt track
The poi are well out, petrol stations other side of the road and no where near the petrol staion anyway.Eating place in the middle of a council tip thats nice :D
Can i download speed cams for this with audible warnings saying 30 50 etc?

[MarkHewitt]

[BONDENO]

got cams on very confused how the audible warings work saying 30 50 70 etc how you do this.Will the cams know what the speed limit is

[mossman]

The supplied TT POIs are known to be a bit (!) inaccurate. There are plenty of more accurate ones available, for example:

http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/oldboy/TomTomPOI/index.html

http://www.tomtomfree.com/

[BONDENO]

Thanks for that :D how many can i put on does anyone know

[Andy_P]

Sorry to sound difficult to a new member but all your questions have been asked so many times before, (and are all archived here), that you'll find people giving more or less grumpy replies. Please use the search facility first, and then come back with any further questions.

to get you going, you can put on 39 of your own POI categories with an almost unlimited number of entries in each category (although a huge number may slow down your TomTom).
You can replace the inbuilt categories completely with your own data, but it isn't easy, and editing the inbuilt set is supposedly against copyright rules.
And to get the speed cameras to show what the limit is you need to:
a) install the "speed-zoned" set of files - instructions for doing that are all over this forum - doing that will show you the speed limit on screen as you approach.
b) if you want to hear the speed limit, you need to replace a file on the TomTom called data.chk with a custom one - again there are instructions here by the bucketload.

Have a nose round then come back if you're stuck

[BillyHey]

[Frazz]

You can get your TomTom to find alternative shortest/fastest routes, you're not just stuck with the first one's it selects. If you don't like the choice it has made just select 'Find Alternative' and then select how you want the alternative route to be calculated; travel via, avoid part of route, avoid roadblock etc or just 'calculate alternative'. If you select 'calculate alternative' and then 'fastest route' again, it will find another 'fastest route'. Obviously, on occasion the route it selects may not be the fastest one due to local road conditions that the mappers will not be aware of, but I guess the important thing is that, usually, it will get you to your destination by a reasonable route.

Frazz

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