TomTom V5 - Buggy

ShuYa · Occasional Visitor Joined: Apr 25, 2005 Posts: 3

Already, two errors on Version 5 within 10 miles of my home.

It told me to take the third exit on a roundabout which would take me back round the opposite way I came. I wanted to go straight on which was the second exit.
Ended up going round the roundabout twice.

It told me to get into the right lane where I needed to be in the left lane.

So far it has lost my location a few times, i.e doesn't register that I'm on a certain road - can't find it. Altough the area has quite a few new roads.

Ugly-Kid-Joe · Posted: Mon Apr 25, 2005 11:30 am Post subject:

This is possibly due to not having the updated maps which V 5.00 was more than likey engineered around.

HOG · Regular Visitor Joined: Apr 15, 2005 Posts: 114

As a addition to this and my post on the same topic I was going down the A5 and it said "Keep right" but the screen showed I needed to go off the exit slip road! Had I listened to her and carried on I would be going the wrong way:(

ShuYa · Occasional Visitor Joined: Apr 25, 2005 Posts: 3

So you're saying that the TomTom V5 is an updated software program, but to work efficiently we need to purchase the new maps when they come out?

Does anyone know how much the new maps will be?

Thanks

Ugly-Kid-Joe · Posted: Mon Apr 25, 2005 12:06 pm Post subject:

Shuya,
That's about the size of it, V5.00 is only a software update. There hasn't been a confirmed release date yet of the new maps but sometime in may seems to crop up. You cannot use the full postcode support either without the new maps.

Ugly-Kid-Joe · Posted: Mon Apr 25, 2005 12:55 pm Post subject:

I'll eat my words. Looks like the upgraded maps are available now according to another thread.

MikeB · Posted: Mon Apr 25, 2005 1:26 pm Post subject:

Having updated maps will not necessarily fix these issues. There should be little difference in the routing with the newer maps if they both contain the same roads.

Where you will find a difference is when the road layout has changed, newer roads, and of course the Postcodes. Bearing in mind that these maps are the latest available from Teleatlas, they will still not have roads in them that were opened recently.
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oddsock · Posted: Mon Apr 25, 2005 1:50 pm Post subject:

MikeB · Posted: Mon Apr 25, 2005 2:10 pm Post subject:

"Recent" is difficult to define. Sometimes roads can get in the database pretty quickly, the M6 Toll road is an example. In this case it looked like they used the plans to create the maps and there was an outcry bacause a lot of the junctions were not right. The M6 Toll was opened and the first maps came out in time for the GO release last June Teleatlas 2004 release 1. The M6 was not there for the release of the TomTom Navigator 3 software a month earlier.

Another example is the A130 dualing from Wickford (A129) down to the A127 at Rayleigh. This was opened in 2003 and this release of maps will be the first available from TomTom with the road included.

We will be visiting Teleatlas later on this year, when we will be putting these sorts of issues to them. The one thing to bear in mind is that there is a delay of about 3 months between the maps being released (by Teleatlas) and the data being in a validated format for release (by TomTom). Sometimes (as in the TT Navigator 3 release) this misses the product release date so the maps will be even older.
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HOG · Regular Visitor Joined: Apr 15, 2005 Posts: 114

One thing I would like to know is this...

How the hell do they map all these roads to the nearest inch, cm whatever?

How do the make paper maps too?

Yep I know nothing Rolling Eyes

MikeB · Posted: Mon Apr 25, 2005 2:22 pm Post subject:

That is something that we will be reporting on in the near future. But as a quick answer they use GPS.

The OS use ones that are so acurate that the old surveyed maps are wrong. When this happens they have to "blur" the GPS reading to fit into the old mapping.

You can get an idea of how it is done for the Navteq maps by clicking here
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cdelecole · Regular Visitor Joined: Jan 05, 2005 Posts: 185

I just posted something about the map availability ...
see

http://pocketgpsworld.com/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=19757

Costs are also mentioned on their web site.

cdelecole · Regular Visitor Joined: Jan 05, 2005 Posts: 185

sorry, it is here :

http://pocketgpsworld.com/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=19763

MikeB · Posted: Mon Apr 25, 2005 3:04 pm Post subject:

HOG · Regular Visitor Joined: Apr 15, 2005 Posts: 114

Confused now?

So I bought my TTG a few weeks ago along with the maps of western europe.

So do I need to upgrade the maps or do I already have them?

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