Speed Cams on TT1 Go IQ

ibroxhero · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jun 14, 2009 Posts: 13

Hi,

Considering buying the basic TomTom with IQ routing. The specs say speed cams and petrol prices etc. for 3 months. When this trial runs out, I assume i'll still have speed camera alerts for free?

falkirk81 · Posted: Sun Jun 14, 2009 9:17 pm Post subject:

I believe that you will get updates to the speed cam Database offered from Tomtom. After the 3 months, you will still receive the warnings from the Database but you will not get any more updates to the existing Database.
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Darren · Posted: Sun Jun 14, 2009 9:55 pm Post subject:

And an old or out of date database is worse than none as it gives you a false sense of security.

Do yourself a big favour and subscribe to ours, you'll fine many here who have (and some who continue to) compared ours with TomToms and chose ours.
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ibroxhero · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jun 14, 2009 Posts: 13

Thanks for the replies. Good to see they stay unlike the navman models.
I would probably update, and if the subscription here is cheap enough, go with that.

Is it easy to put the cameras and poi's on the tomtom? Will using the PGPSW cameras stop me using the tomtom share maps?

Andy_P · Posted: Tue Jun 16, 2009 2:25 am Post subject:

ibroxhero · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jun 14, 2009 Posts: 13

Thanks, this looks nice and easy to install. Will the other Tomtom pois work ok with the cameras added? I assume it's just a new poi file then?

Andy_P · Posted: Thu Jun 18, 2009 12:08 am Post subject:

TomTom's OWN pois come with the map in a single encrypted file - poi.dat.

Any POIs you add yourself come as .ov2 format files and you can have up to 169 of these files on a modern machine, although if you tried to SHOW all of these on the map at he same time, it would slow the machine down a lot.
Having your own add-on POIs makes no difference to the original built-in ones.

ibroxhero · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jun 14, 2009 Posts: 13

Andy, thanks for the patient replies. I assume that the original Tomtom cameras will no longer be displayed so you won't in effect get two warnings?

Andy_P · Posted: Thu Jun 18, 2009 9:05 pm Post subject:

Actually, they will....

You can have both running side by side quite happily, and we often suggest people do this when they first subscribe to the PGPSWorld database, as it really shows how many cameras are missing from the TomTom effort.

Once you've got bored with the double warnings though, you can switch off the TomTom-supplied alerts in the "TomTom Services / Safety cameras" menu, or you can remove them completely by following the instructions in our FAQ #13 HERE

(I'd forgotten I wrote that! Laughing

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ibroxhero · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jun 14, 2009 Posts: 13

Thanks again. That's cleared everything up. Will now be off to find a good deal on a TT one iq routes. Very Happy

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