TomTom v675 Map Now Available

54norton · Occasional Visitor Joined: Apr 12, 2007 Posts: 8

There is a junction within half a mile of my house where a mini rdbt was installed some 10 years ago, to replace a "right of way" sweeping right turn. As this is yet to be picked up by TomTom (which instructs one to turn left, when actually you need to turn Right), what confidence can I have, in order to lob them about 40 quid?

jellywobbles · Occasional Visitor Joined: Mar 31, 2007 Posts: 24

54norton · Occasional Visitor Joined: Apr 12, 2007 Posts: 8

Thanks a lot for the information. I'll keep the money in my pocket then!

capscrew · Occasional Visitor Joined: Mar 16, 2006 Posts: 11

When you report map problems how do you know the report has been acted upon. No one will ever reply to your report stating that xxxx has been fixed in the next map issue 76.93?

HummerUK · Posted: Thu Apr 26, 2007 10:45 pm Post subject: What A Waste Of Time

Well after two days of waiting I got my map of all of Europe.
Took a total of 1hr5mins to download and install.

Granted it has a new local cul-de-sac close to where I live (road laid about two years ago).

However a major error still exists on the junction of the A27 and A22 where it shows an unamed road going across the main railway line to the Polegate Bypass.

I reported this error last year and I thought as it is on a major road they would have removed this road which never was built.

http://www.streetmap.co.uk/newmap.srf?x=557500&y=105500&z=3&sv=557500,105500&st=4&ar=N&mapp=newmap.srf&searchp=newsearch.srf shows how the junction really is and has been since 2002

HummerUK

Daggers · Posted: Fri Apr 27, 2007 10:10 am Post subject:

I've discovered an interesting anomaly in the v675 maps. When travelling on the A422 between Brackley and Farthinghoe (Northants), you suddenly find that TT thinks you are driving through a field somewhere to the south of the actual road.

The v660 maps had this stretch of road mapped correctly. I'm not aware of any recent changes in this area - maybe there's a planned upgrade to the road?

Although it doesn't make any significant difference to actual navigation in the area, it does give cause for concern. Why has a map suddenly become less accurate in the most recent version. I could almost understand it if the road layout had changed relatively recently and Teleatlas/TomTom had gone back to a previous version, but when it's completely unrelated to any recent physical developments, it's a mystery. What's going on here?

Tim Buxton · Posted: Fri Apr 27, 2007 10:34 am Post subject: Re: What A Waste Of Time

C7KEN · Occasional Visitor Joined: Dec 24, 2006 Posts: 1

I have tried unsuccesfully to download these map updates using TomTom home and constantly get read error messages, now I get a no update message, I have contacted TT support and it takes them 24 hours to send me a so called cure ie reinstall TT home this has done nothing to help, I have sent a further message to them and now 27hours later have heard nothing, this is not acceptable so I plan to stop mastercard from paying them, not bother with any more updates, find an alternative to TT and if possible get this exposed on TV they cannot get away with being so poor at correcting errors on the maps and offering terrible service after having charged nearly 100 euros for a map update, they seem so difficult to contact its hard to see why other companies cannot beat them or are they all as bad?

Mervalous · Occasional Visitor Joined: Sep 29, 2005 Posts: 15

I know this is a TomTom forum and thats what I have on my mobile, but who are the best PDA or Phone Sat Nav when we are talking about correct and up to date maps, are they all about the same?

capscrew · Occasional Visitor Joined: Mar 16, 2006 Posts: 11

No question about the best map supplier Navteq is quite literally streets ahead. Tele Atlas is a poor second.

dannyoneill · Regular Visitor Joined: May 08, 2005 Posts: 75

When you report a map fault Teleatlas then see if its on their latest OEM database. If it is fixed there, thats it. IF not then they plan in a survey, where there trucks go out and map the are but this can take a while.

Problem is the TeleAtlas maps maybe upto date however tomtom havnt yet released that data. I read an article which says TA give the data to tomtom and it can take them 12 months to actually prepare it for release.

So your £50 update is more out of date than a £3 paper atlas from your local BP garage.

At least with my Wayfinder it was upto date, they would update the server maps 4 times a year if not more, shame that it was a crap product and all server based.
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NiTeSHiFT · Occasional Visitor Joined: May 06, 2007 Posts: 1

ozuk · Occasional Visitor Joined: May 07, 2007 Posts: 7

Hi All,
I just discovered this thread and have just read through every single post.

The constant complaints about map innacuracies has me worried, I'm in Australia and will be visiting UK and France in August/September.

However, can someone tell me why the WE map (which includes UK) is 99 Euros and the Australian map is 199 Euros!! Holy cow! There are probably more roads in London alone than there are in the whole of Australia!! Surprised

The prices are from the first post in this thread.

Thanks,
Dave.

iancjc · Posted: Mon May 14, 2007 8:21 am Post subject:

smaller market, large area to map and revenge for the ashes and world cup springs to mind.....
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vroomfondel · Posted: Mon May 14, 2007 1:53 pm Post subject: Re: best map

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