Safety Camera add on - is it worth it?

[Darren]

That'll be because the n73 is not on the list of supported devices for TomTom HOME.
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Darren Griffin

[Andy_P]

[Thready]

Stupid tomtom peeps then, because they sell the nav to support N73, think they'd get a wiggle on with their updates wouldn't you :-)


*chuffed I wasn't being a total dingle*

[Thready]

KK think i've done it, but am not about to go out driving looking for cameras to test it coz Al Murray is about to come on the telly :D

The files i've installed are:

pocketgps_uk_pmobile
pocketgps_uk_pmobile.ov2
pocketgps_uk_sc
pocketgps_uk_sc.ov2

does that sound about right?

[DennisN]

I hope that's the .bmp file as well as the .ov2. And have you Enabled them and set them to warn?
What does KK and Al Murray mean? There's been developing on this website a tradition of clarity see here and being as how acronymfinder.com is not working this morning, you really should have a footnote to your posts saying "DennisN, KK means K... K... and Al Murray means ........"

Anyway, now that you've got the idea, you can start having a play. Your next homework is to delete all the above and download and install the Speed Zoned version. Remember you were disappointed with small coverage from Tom Tom? Well the version you've downloaded right now is the Single Consolidated. This means all you'll get is warning of a camera - "Eyup lad, there's a camera about" (or if you're a softy pants southerner "I say chaps, do watch out for a camera hereabouts"). With the Speed Zoned version, you get different camera types and different speeds thereof - "Eyup lad, there's a 30mph mobile camera 'ere", "I say chaps ..."

Do not despair that you've done "all this" for nowt. The homework is easy enough. First go out and try the ones you've got, then come home and delete the files you've already installed and download and install the speed zoned ones to see the difference. They take more effort initially as you have to "enable" and "warn" for so many when you first do it (but not again when you get the next update).

Next homework after that is to download the OGG files and get spoken warnings to replace the bells and whistles.
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Dennis

If it tastes good - it's fattening.

Two of them are obesiting!!

[Thready]

Dennis, do do make me chuckle :-)

KK is my slang for OK and Al Murray is a programme on that televisual box thing in the corner of my lounge :-)

Yes the.bmp files are there, would go out and play with them but the ay up factor is strong here in Scarborough and I son't think there are any cameras I can test out, so will have to wait till I got to work in the North East on Monday [loads of the little beggers up there]

So I may just do my homework early and do the delete and reinstall today, coz I am of the impatient variety !!

[mikealder]

To save you wasting petrol (you would have a long drive to check your camera warnings are working where you live!) - try the following:

1/ go to Advanced Planning AtoB
2/ set a depart from address/ postcode enter FY43PA number 2
3/ set a destination address/ postcode enter PR41AX number 33
4/ go to View Route/ Show Route Demo, set the speed to 100% and sit back watch/ listen.

You will get a Gatso 30, followed by a Mobile 30 - if you play the entire trip it should also trigger a Gatso 50 and Mobile 50

The above is a good way to check the spoken alert files when you get around to putting them on the device - Mike

[DennisN]

Ey up lad, 'ow did I guess tha wor from God's Own County? Must be summat to do wi yer intelligence. Any road, tha dun't need ter go ter that pagan land at Blackpool, just do a quick spin round Royal Albert Drive/Marine Drive for a mobile camera, then nip over to Flamborough North Marine Road, then in Brid for St John Street near me aunty's old chip shop. Tha'll get a decent lung fuller proper air.
Oh and by the way, us 'ard men run our demo at 300% not softy pants Lancashire 100% - we're 'ard!
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Dennis

If it tastes good - it's fattening.

Two of them are obesiting!!

[Oldboy]

[DennisN]

[lola]

ear - any1 seen the motoring section (HJ) in today's telegraph.

Apparently the Froggy police are taking a dim view on users of Sat Nav who have a camera database installed.

Also - TT now seem to be giving out a years subs to TT cameras until end of April (not that it is worth charging for anyway) IMHO.

[ninja_geezer]

You also get:
user-adjustable warning distance for each speed
user adjustable warning sound, or optional warning voices telling you the speed limit and camera type as you approach.

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Hi new on this sat nav thing.can i do the above with a garmin nuvi 350 ???
if so how ? all the camera warnings i get are the same.
Thanks
paul.

[Thready]

hate to burst your bubble Dennis, but I am only in Yorkshire on a top secret mission to collect data to enable my kinsfolk to calibrate a suitable modification programme to humanise yorkshire folk.

I am in fact a full blown lancastrian, who is still amazed at all the editing that takes place of history books available in Yorkshire, which to this day proclaim that they won the battle of the roses. The lengths some people will go to eh!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Can report the database installed and fully operational, although as the 1st camera I passed this morning didn't give me a warning, I thought I'd firked it up, until a mile later the reassuring beep warned me of another camera, does this mean on my very first outing I have a new camera location to report?


[that should really really rankle with a yorkshire man :P ]

[Darren]

[Thready]

hee hee, just been on the map and it's awaiting removal. But the camera is definitely still there?

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