Using Map Share to block or unblock a road

Nigel42 · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jan 05, 2007 Posts: 51

Thanks for the info, well at least now I know!

LesP2008 · Posted: Sun Dec 16, 2007 2:37 pm Post subject:

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This is one of my worries about Mapshare... how many villagers that have been content with submitting non-existent speed cameras are now going to try to block off their roads completely to other users?

How true this is.I heard that the residents here actually asked that there village was excluded from public data. My example is Alfriston in East Sussex near me, TomTom continually tries to send you everyway but through it.
Accepted, in summertime it does get hammered with touring coaches that just block the whole place up. I suppose it helps the cause when residents are ex Chancellor of the exchequer etc.

Oldboy · Posted: Sun Dec 16, 2007 6:36 pm Post subject:

Anita · Posted: Sun Dec 16, 2007 11:56 pm Post subject:

LesP2008 · Posted: Mon Dec 17, 2007 7:23 pm Post subject:

Try doing it Anita coming from polegate on the A27. It used to be ok but since i got my 910 (when they were first released) it always wants to turn me left down The st to go to seven sisters and into Seaford or if i bypass that then left down by the Sussex Ox.
This is with Fastest route planned.
I realise that this is more of a routing issue than a deliberate hijack but peoples concerns are valid.
Maybe thats the fastest Route but as locals we would beg to differ, onto Drusillas is the go.

Anita · Posted: Mon Dec 17, 2007 8:31 pm Post subject:

LesP2008 · Posted: Mon Dec 17, 2007 8:39 pm Post subject:

Yes Anita, Sorry for that it is a little confusing on my part.
I sort of got sidetracked between the real issue of what Alfriston residents DID try to do, my 910 woes and what could happen if they give Mr H... a TomTom. Laughing

giblets46 · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jan 18, 2008 Posts: 16

How do you get them to include major Dual carriage ways? The A5 just north of Tamworth was rerouted and converted to a Dual Carriage way to the A38 in 2005, and the latest maps still tell you that you are driving through a field!

uffe73 · Posted: Sun Jan 20, 2008 11:57 am Post subject:

Andy_P · Posted: Sun Jan 20, 2008 1:04 pm Post subject:

amalteser · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jul 21, 2007 Posts: 10

GerryC · Posted: Sun Jan 20, 2008 4:31 pm Post subject:

giblets46 · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jan 18, 2008 Posts: 16

Hi there, yeh it is dual carriageway south of Tamworth, but also north of Tamworth all the way to the A38, they re routed it too.
I checked on Google maps, and the map is the same as the Tomtom map, but if you have it in Hydrid mode you can see how the dual carriageway has been re routed away from the original A5.
http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=52.63249,-1.783905&spn=0.023025,0.05785&t=h&z=14&om=0
Interestingly, Streepmap have the ordanance survey maps online (which Tomtom Supposedly use), and they have this road correctly routed.
http://www.streetmap.co.uk/streetmap.dll?G2M?X=414500&Y=304500&A=Y&Z=3

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