New GB Map Errors!

sbcco · Posted: Mon Dec 05, 2005 8:58 pm Post subject:

Could somebody with teh current TomTom maps look up and tell me where Bridlington, Kirkcaldy and Bathgate are?

I have viaMichelin running on my Tungsten (which, I'm told, uses the same map source as TT). In each of the above (and on the viaMichelin website) asking for these towns (the town centre, not a specific street) you will get Beverley, Dunfermline and Livingston. I wonder if these errors are in the underlying maps or in a the way the user application links to them.

These aren't the only errors - postcode or address searches need a bit of ingenuity at times. For my home, a search on my home town, then street, gets me to the same named street in a town 15 miles away. I always keep an AA road atlas handy when plotting routes. Having said that, the user interface on a Palm is quite good when navigating. The VM software also has a PC application that allows you to work out routes on that, or to select just portions of a country map to load onto the Palm.
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forky · Posted: Mon Dec 05, 2005 9:36 pm Post subject:

can you give me your address and I will see where it takes me on my 700
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Vortex · Posted: Wed Dec 07, 2005 9:12 am Post subject:

Just bought a TT One and Bridlington, Kirkcaldy and Bathgate seem to be in the correct place. The latest application update for the GO series (5.420) should solve your naming problem. According to the TomTom site - "Streets with the same name in towns that are close together are not confused in this version".

sbcco · Posted: Wed Dec 07, 2005 9:19 pm Post subject:

ringostarr · Occasional Visitor Joined: Dec 19, 2005 Posts: 19

tomcat76 · Posted: Mon Dec 19, 2005 9:55 pm Post subject:

crazyken · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jan 18, 2006 Posts: 7

Why not try www.yousendit.com you can then send up to 1gig files to anyone :D

acmp · Regular Visitor Joined: Feb 03, 2006 Posts: 117

This is all fascinating.

I'm new to TT and have TTn5.21 on PPC2003 and have discovered an annoying error in Nottingham (castle meadow retail park access from Queens road, the 'unnamed road' doesn't join the island on the map but does in reality) I have map v605

So who the heck do I report this too and what can I do about it?

I'm in agreement with those here who say it's tomtom's responsibility but I don't want to waste my time if they just ignore you.

Also is there a place on the web that I can add errors to, some sort of public repository, so that people can benefit from the error reporting of the masses? (if not then maybe this site would like to start one)

acmp

Oldboy · Posted: Wed Feb 08, 2006 7:46 pm Post subject:

acmp · Regular Visitor Joined: Feb 03, 2006 Posts: 117

Thanks Oldboy, but why do I have this odd feeling that my comments to tomtom will be filed under B for bin Wink

As there are so many anomilies with the mapping data is there a way to edit the map so that it includes the correct info?

I ask this as today I got sent down a road that is now closed at one end(Crocus street, Nottingham), I turned around only to see that where I had come in was one way so I couldn't even get back. Tomtom wouldn't get me out as it insisted I drive through the barrier at the end of the road.

acmp

Andy_P · Posted: Fri Feb 10, 2006 11:47 am Post subject:

Nope. There's no way to edit the map yourself.
It's probably more complicated than you'd think, as for every junction the map needs to report to TomTom every combination of 'turn allowed' or 'not allowed' from every possible direction.

All I do, is make a POI category for "Map errors" with a warning triangle icon to remind me where the problems that I've found are.
That also means I can just send that POI file off to TomTom to report the errors (just like reporting speed cameras to this site).
Unfortunatly, TeleAtlas will not accept error reports in .ov2 format though.

acmp · Regular Visitor Joined: Feb 03, 2006 Posts: 117

I've seen a lot of stuff about the TT SDK. How practical do you think it would be to write an app that avoids certain POI's? If it could be done then you could just POI dead ends and such and the route planner would not send you the wrong way?

Maybe this level of sophistication is just beyond satnav at this time.

Overall I'm still happy with TTn5.

acmp

AlanK · Posted: Mon Feb 13, 2006 1:23 am Post subject:

A LOT of scottish (at least) villages and towns dont seem to appear on map v605!!

I have reported this to Tom Tom over a month ago and they are now aware of the problem but I have yet to get a suitable response.

The streets in these places appear if you can find them on the map but the town/village name does not so you cant navigate to them (e.g. Leitholm & Greenlaw were the examples I used but there are loads more!)

Frazz · Posted: Mon Feb 13, 2006 10:33 pm Post subject:

I've got v605 on my TT1 and have no problem finding Leitholm and Greenlaw. They're about 6 miles apart via the A647 and B6461.

Frazz

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