TT3 Roundabouts and poor mapping

Torchy · Posted: Thu May 27, 2004 9:39 pm Post subject: TT3 Roundabouts and poor mapping

Ok so I would like you all to try this. In TT3 in the 'from' box type in GLOUCESTER. You will note that there is not a GLOUCESTER but a GLOUCESTERSHIRE. So select this. Then for the road type in HURRICANE ROAD and then click OK. Set the destination to GLOUCESTERSHIRE - SOUTHBROOK ROAD.
Now run the demonstration. Notice anything strange? Yes that's right you are directed around 2 roundabouts the wrong way!!!
In addition you are told that after a few hundred yard that 'you have reached you destination' and indeed this is repeated several times even though you are still 3 miles away.
Even more bazaar is that on the return journey you are instructed to take the second exit at a roundabout that has not existed for many years, but on the outward journey the roundabout is replaced by a cross road!!!
I, and several friends have tested the software and found countless mistakes.
We still have a road that was removed in 1962 and although Gloucester City Centre has been pedestrianised for at least 10 years I was still directed through it.
Finally I tried to travel from Hempsted to St.Oswald's road and when I was driving along that road it told me that I needed to turn right which took me away from my intended route.
It seems that yet again the maps are still a long way from being correct and that the bugs in the software that wear originally in TT2 have re-appeared.
Oh well, back to the drawing board.
Just one final point, I happen to sell these units and am often told of the problems that exist with the system. It is slow, it often locks up and does not do the job it was intended to do properly. These are not my words but those of our customers.

Dilldog · Posted: Thu May 27, 2004 10:10 pm Post subject:

Last week I was ready to bin TT3 too - I had the BT drop-out blues (2210/BT/TT3/Clip-on) but after turning off POI as recomended here it works just fine.

TT3 has been great today; navigating me through London, Basingstoke, Oxford and back home to Bromsgrove - always spot on. Thumbs Up

The GPS was on 8 or 9 sats for most of the day and islands and turns all seemed pretty accurate to me - better than the fixed GPS system in my old Lexus. The speed of re-routing when I did make a wrong turn also suprised me. The out of date maps seem a common issue with most of the GPS software available and where you do get 'newer' maps you lose other features.

There was one downer today though. I didn't buy TT3 because of POI but this morning I was a bit low on fuel and it would have been useful - and I do want POI to work at some point.

I guess one wider point is that Pocket GPS is a great resource but it shouldn't have to stand in for the support team at TomTom. If it wasn't for this site, it would have gone back!

Dilldog

DavidW · Posted: Thu May 27, 2004 10:14 pm Post subject:

Speed and lock-up issues are often caused by bad memory cards.

It looks like Gloucester is missing from the database - that is an error.

The rest of the problems you mention look to be largely to do with something I've seen elsewhere in the Navigator 3 maps (this time in Dunstable, Bedfordshire) - a few roads in a small area all being incorrectly marked as 'not for navigation'. Is Delta Way a public road? If so, you need to report the problem to TeleAtlas here giving as much detail as possible.

David

Darren · Posted: Fri May 28, 2004 7:21 am Post subject:

Dilldog · Posted: Fri May 28, 2004 12:27 pm Post subject:

I have had to turn off POI to stop the BT drop-out issue - I know I could have switched it on for a moment but it was one of those 'I can't be bothered to pull over and look as I'm in a built up area and there's bound to be a garage soon' kind of things. Smile

The low fuel light was on and the computer said I had about 30 miles left, so I wasn't as desperate as you were, either.

If TT3 worked properly I wouldn't have had to consider pulling over.... Sad

Dave · Posted: Fri May 28, 2004 3:05 pm Post subject:

	PocketGPS
	Web