NEW ROADS IN 2003

NMatthew · Posted: Tue Apr 06, 2004 8:47 am Post subject:

Can anyone else confirm the presence or otherwise in TTN3 of the roads mentioned at the top of this thread? Another post suggests that Dave might be mistaken in his assertion (that they are all there except the Rothwell bypass) as it claims the Silverstone bypass is still missing.

Neil

gstenson · Posted: Tue Apr 06, 2004 10:30 am Post subject:

see my other thread on the silverstone bypass but basically some of the bypass is there (i.e. most the roads are now dual carriageway and the m40/a43 new junction) but other sections are not (i.e. the a43 is still running through silverstone village).

so why only do part of the update????

neilsumner2 · Occasional Visitor Joined: Apr 05, 2004 Posts: 4

It appears that teleatlas have to drive each new road themselves to confirm it's existance. This says that either they are surveying the new roads themselves alone in which case I've no idea how they keep a track of all the new developments or they don't trust the ordnance survey updates they probably subscribe to which is daft to the extream because the ordnance survey use a GPS to survey modern developments down to an accuracy of about 10mm.

Thinking it through perhaps they drive the route themselves so that they don't have to pay the ordnance survey a data resellers fee.

On the subject of updates during the life of a tom tom version, I feel that a navigation app lives and dies by how well it gets you around and so offering quaterly updates would be a huge benefit.

-Neil

Res · Occasional Visitor Joined: Apr 03, 2004 Posts: 17

NMatthew

I can confirm the rothwell bypass is NOT included in tom tom navigator 3

NMatthew · Posted: Wed Apr 07, 2004 8:48 pm Post subject:

Thanks for the confirmation Res. I guessed it would be missing since it opened in August 2003 and other roads like the Silverstone bypass, that opened much earlier, are missing. Looks like very little reason to upgrade, what with all the bugs too.

tom9851 · Posted: Fri Apr 09, 2004 7:32 am Post subject:

Does TTN3 map now include J8 M62?

Cheers

Tom

Skippy · Posted: Fri Apr 09, 2004 11:41 pm Post subject:

Maybe we should create a spreadsheet of all the new roads so we can list the various products and compare different map versions from TeleAtlas/NAVTEQ ?

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