M6 Toll... yet again!

alix776 · Posted: Fri Aug 13, 2004 5:24 pm Post subject:

but its straight 22 mile road with a little brain work you can still use tt to navigate to destination
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delboy0754 · Posted: Fri Aug 13, 2004 6:41 pm Post subject:

alix776 · Posted: Fri Aug 13, 2004 8:22 pm Post subject:

i wish mine spoke 4 times on that distance but then the speed camera warning goes off
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philhoward · Occasional Visitor Joined: Sep 05, 2004 Posts: 26

I travel down the re-hashed section of the M42/M6toll junction every day and it confuses the heck out of it, putting me on back lanes with duff info!

If there was an update available, i'd pay for the joy of it knowing which road i'm on (although I know, it doesn't....).

Coming up the M6, its a real nuisance as it tries to take you off the motorway, even though there is now a through route. That new bit of the M6 from J4 to the

philhoward · Occasional Visitor Joined: Sep 05, 2004 Posts: 26

M42 is a godsend, but shame TT3 doesnt.

Sorry about the split post...pressed the Submit button for some reason..

rockhopper · Occasional Visitor Joined: Sep 21, 2004 Posts: 2

Just read the forum, and have had a similarly disappointing resonse from TT when I cahllenged them about the M6 Toll. At the end of the day, this road opened in October 2003, and we're still here, nearly 12 months later, with a "newly developed", "leading edge" navigation tool that doesn't recognise it.

I hear what TT (and others) are saying about the problem being with TeleAtlas, the map data provider. However, I've got a friend who has just bought a TT Go, with map data also provided to TT by TeleAtlas. And guess what? It's got the M6 Toll on it!

I think TT's argument is falling down around their ears, and their continuing head-in-the-sand approach to their customers is doing them no favours.

The solution is simple - issue a free update (why should we pay? - the road was open when we bought the kit!), taking the TeleAtlas map files showing the M6 Toll and putting that data into TT3. Then we all shut up and go home, and they get a quiet, easy life!

SpeedCam · Posted: Tue Sep 21, 2004 8:41 pm Post subject:

I'm just as fed up with TomTom as others, complete lack of customer support, they appear to have lost interest in their Navigator product, more interested in developing products like GO that lock customers into TomTom, and charging for services that competitor are offering for free ie Traffic.

We've give TomTom our feedback, and also told them how to solve the problems and they have failed to listen.

Therefore the solution is to copy the map data from TomTom GO and use it in Navigator - It works perfectly. Just use the SD card supplied with GO to prove that it works. Twisted Evil

alix776 · Posted: Tue Sep 21, 2004 9:32 pm Post subject:

speed cam its more comlicated than that as the go uses a differnt os to the ppc version of navigator

if you use the m6 toll the easy thin to do is to turn guidence off and engage your brain
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Oh the joys of being a courier.
device Lumia 950 xl

MikeB · Posted: Tue Sep 21, 2004 9:43 pm Post subject:

Actually although the software and OS is different the maps are actually the same. And so is the directory structure so in theory if you have TT3 instaled on your PDA then the maps will work.

OK now to install TT3 on my hard-reset XDA
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MikeB · Posted: Tue Sep 21, 2004 10:10 pm Post subject:

Well Done SpeedCam Not Worthy

You are spot on. I just installed TTN3 on the XDA and then swapped the TTN3 card with my GO card and low and behold TT3 now runs with the same data card. Something I wouldnt have thought of doing.

However I also have maps of Portugal on the SD card and those are not activated for the XDA.
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SpeedCam · Posted: Wed Sep 22, 2004 11:51 pm Post subject:

I've been running this now for a month and not problems whats so ever, It confirms that TomTom are not looking after their customers. There's a solution requiring no development but TomTom still refuses to assist, they are more interested in there new products.

RichXDA2 · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jul 26, 2004 Posts: 44

I've got an XDA 2 bought through O2 and the maps came pre installed on an SD card, does anyone know if you can buy just the TT GO maps on an SD card so I can do a straight swap and if so how much it will be?

SpeedCam · Posted: Thu Sep 23, 2004 6:51 pm Post subject:

No there is no way, I've tried purchasing a CDROM from TomTom and they just don't want to know.

The only solution even though I'd prefer not to encourgae this, is, a pirate copy off the internet or a friend. You cam probably see why I'm very disappointed with TomTom's approach to this problem.

RichXDA2 · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jul 26, 2004 Posts: 44

Like speedcam I am extremely miffed at Tom Tom, I live in the the West Mids and although I don't really need navigation for the M6 Toll (as its quite straight forward) that isn't really the point as I feel I have been sold an incomplete package.

I can accept that they have to rely on third parties for the mapping and that no map is ever fully up to date, but if TT Go has the up to date maps then why couldn't they issue these maps with TT3.

If this wasn't possible for some obscure reason, I don't see why they can't issue updated maps to existing users (even at a small charge). It doesn't make sense as we all know that the updated maps are available or they wouldn't be selling them with TT Go.

AndyCr15 · Posted: Fri Sep 24, 2004 9:24 am Post subject:

So can anyone zip up the contents of a TT Go SD card and upload it for us? Or does this infringe on multiple copyright laws Rolling Eyes

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