Regretting buying a TomTom....is it really as bad as I think

[tr3472]

I made a mistake and posted my Q's into the wrong group so some may have seen this before. I have included the posting since first asking my Q's. Sorry if its confusing.



Well, I am starting to wish I got the nuvi now.

Thanks to the guys on these forums I changed the menus on the unit to a much better layout. I only got it today from Amazon but god am I regretting it. I am comparing it my excellent but old i3.

First. My street is named all wrong. The road running through my street is called High Lane but I live at Rock Crescent...so according to this stupid thing I live at 9 High Lane. I thought OK I live on the outskirts of the village I will test it out to go to my mam's. When I went to enter her address it was the same kinda problem. Everything has to be done with postcodes...WTF, and then everything has the wrong name. How can this be fixed; if at all. My old i3 has no problems with this.

Second. POIs, what a load of rubbish. My nearest swimming pool is almost 83 miles away according to this. There is one 2 miles from my door and another 3 within 10 miles. The other categories are just as bad. You HAVE to add your own pois to make it worthwhile....the most useful being the fish and chip shop one. Can you get into the file structure and get rid of the default pois so I have the list I want and that work?

If I could go back I would defo get the nuvi. not happy so please make me so.

Thanks in advance.[/b]

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pcaouolte kindly replied


First thing, have you got a backup? If not then get one now using Windows Explorer rather than home.

If your street name is wrong you can correct it using mapshare. If you have created a custom menu you will need to temporarily remove it in order to be able to access mapshare.

You can navigate to addresses without using postcodes: Navigate to..., Address, Street and house number. I don't understand why "eveything has the wrong name" maybe you have been unlucky with the places that you have tried so far. If there are many, post some examples for others to try out on their machines.

Tomtom's POI's are rather poor. If you want to get rid of the built in ones you can delete or rename the file called 'poi.dat' which you will find in the map folder on your tomtom.

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My reply

Thanks for the reply. I have just realised i clicked on the wrong group to put this in so I will post to the correct one after I write this.

I read all the excellent advise while I waited for the delivery of the tomtom so the first thing I did was a backup. I have renamed the poi.dat file and it worked a treat.

The street name thing. I renamed my street the problem is one side is Cresent and the other side of the road is Terrace. Again Garmin has no problems with this. There is a street called Sandwick Terrace, Wheatley Hill, Durham DH6 3LN, yet its named as the road - Wingate Road. Its not a one off, it seems to be a hell of a lot of the villages round me have this problem. Garmin has the correct names for these surely TomTom have?

[PaulB2005]

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