Maps are terrible in Scotland

[charlesn]

Mabozza,

Did you identify the address by postcode or city+street?

C

[Oldboy]

[rob-bob]

i think we all agree the tomtom go is a very good idea.....and yes it is an aid but how many of us would be happy if we bought an a to z only to find out that the maps were out of date by a long way in some circumstances the problems were ok on the old one.....latest software should include the latest maps and if they are wrong they should be corrected free of charge.....you do not expect to buy the latest product only to find out it has the out of date maps......its like putting a new cover on the an old AtoZ.
Cheers
Rob

[gingernut777]

[Darren]

[gingernut777]

Whooppee.

We can agree on one thing then darren.

:D
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[Darren]

[rob-bob]

ginge
who is saying you should give a free update every time there is a map error....not me....some of the map errors that are on tomtom go are correct on my tomtom2 on my pda so you would think that they would be correct on tomtom go as they are the latest maps...... if i owned a software company i would try and give the latest software in the first place...seems to make sense dont you think

darren
if an a to z company brought out a new a to z would they put a map inside that was worse than the last one....i dont think so....some of the map errors are up to 20 years wrong in some cases.....

at the end of the day the map on tomtom go has loads of errors on it some that were correct on tomtom 2 why are the maps worse on tomtom go....when i bought my tomtom go i would have thought it would fix the few map problems that were on it but i have even more on tomtom go than i ever did on tomtom 2

as for cost im sure tomtom and teleatlas wont be going out of business no matter how much it cost to compile the data and test it as the add that cost onto us... as for them fitting it onto their memory space the cost difference sd cards at cost in so small a few quid why did we not get bigger sd cards seems they tried to cram it all onto a small card and as people are finding out as you try to add poi at is running out of space....maybe thats why the maps ar soo bad as they cut corners to fit it onto the car

Cheers
Rob

[dogdays]

On the subject of the accuracy of the maps. I used my Tomtom Go to travel to an industrial estate in Erith Kent. I turned me into close of private houses and said that I had reached my destination. It turned out that the close had once been part of the industrial estate but they built a duel carriageway across the road 12years ago.

[rob-bob]

Dogdays
thats just my point the maps are out of date soo much in places....in hammersmith it is over 20 years out of date on one road.....it really gets on my tits when people keep saying an a to z is not up to date,they can be up to x amount out of date( i did not buy an A to Z)....i bought a state of the art gps system with the latest maps.....and i do not expect errors that have been done more than two years old......even worse ones that were on tt2 ok and now are incorrect on GO......thats just the problem with this country we seem to take crap like this and do not complain(the brits are well lknown for it).....its just an aid....its gets you there in the end.....you have to keep glancing at the screen to see which way it wants you to go......the roundabouts instructions somtimes are wrong......it tried to send me down a one way street......it take you all around the houses when there is quicker ways just some of the complaints BUT its better than an A to Z......wow!!!!! an AtoZ dont cost £400 and prob has better maps than the v314 maps as the v390 ones seems to have fixed some of the errors....but we cannot have them....

[Old_Phil]

Happy days - another rob-bob rant to read.

I think there should be a compulsory posting from rob-bob every day to brighten up our dreary lives.

I keep placing my A-Z on the seat next to me in the car waiting for it to recommend "in 100 yds turn right" but I have obviously not set it up right. Still, what do I expect for £4.99! And, it doesn't even have my road on it - and it's been here 10 years! I think I'll take it back to WH Smith and demand a more up to date version!

[rkm_hm]

[rob-bob]

i think you guys miss the point...on tt2 maps have a few errors prob older maps on tomtom go later maps and some of the errors on tomtom go are correct on tt2.....WHY......this should not happen if its a later map
...then why are they correct on tt2.....havent took it back as YES i think it is a good piece of kit and i am hoping that when their is an update it will fix the problems.....BUT.... iknow a BUT..... but the maps should have been an improvement from tt2 and they are not.....And as for the AtoZ issue i will say again i did not buy an AtoZ.......i would love to know how many errors have been reported to teleatlas....i would guess alot if you read the other forums aswell
Rant over(for today anyway)
Cheers
Rob

[bestyman]

I live an Leeds and sometimes the tomtom will not find a street or direct me to a road that isnt there or a dead end so I get out my old fashioned paper AA street map of Leeds and guess what??? The errors are always exactly the same. With the A_Z paper map of Leeds this isnt the case.

My point is that the AA paper map and the tomtom share exactly the same data ,so all you paper map lovers out there can get lost !! Well thats assuming you have AA street maps.

Regards

Mark

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