French/Spanish Speed cameras

m623d · Regular Visitor Joined: Apr 05, 2005 Posts: 191

how acurate are the tomtom speed cameras for france and spain?
I have used alertgps files for france before, but to be honest I switched them off after a while because nearly every bridge over an autoroute had a warning! very annoying when driving 800 miles.

also if you speed on a paege they have your entry and exit time and can work out your average speed anyway, so not worth it.
Just very handy for non toll roads.

Also, I once read about it being illeagal to have a satnav on the windscreen in spain, is this still so?

Thanks
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entwood · Regular Visitor Joined: Jul 31, 2005 Posts: 117

I don't know about tom tom french cameras as I don't use TT ones, but I can say that, unfortunately, the PGPS french ones seem extremely limited, the database directory only shows 76 cameras for the whole of France Sad

The best one IMHO is the French database from GPS Passion

http://www.gpspassion.com/forumsen/forum.asp?FORUM_ID=157

You DO need to be a member and to pay for the "Plus" version, you can do so from this link

http://www.gpspassion.com/fr/articles.asp?id=37

To get the "Standard" version - free - go to this link, download the two ov2 files by clicking the word lien adjacent to each file

http://www.radarsenfrance.com/

The latest free version is dated 08/07/07 and has just over 6000 cameras listed.

Hope this helps

sgould · Frequent Visitor Joined: Oct 05, 2004 Posts: 1320

Drove down through France and Spain last month with my GO700 on the screen - no problem.

I used the www.scdb.info/en/ files. You have to pay a small amount but they seemed good. If you select the countries you want from the list (Ctrl click?) they will download as one file and save space on the 100 PoI limit.

I think the timing between toll booths on the autoroute is a myth.....
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m623d · Regular Visitor Joined: Apr 05, 2005 Posts: 191

thanks guys, I'll take a look.

any idea on the spanish law reguarding satnavs?
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vroomfondel · Posted: Wed Jul 11, 2007 8:25 pm Post subject:

gardenshed · Frequent Visitor Joined: Jul 05, 2007 Posts: 466

gardenshed · Frequent Visitor Joined: Jul 05, 2007 Posts: 466

sorry i shall in the future promise to read the thread properly Wink

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