help with tomtom traffic dots

garstie · Occasional Visitor Joined: Mar 04, 2006 Posts: 9

can anyone tell me has there tomtom traffic on the map were it shows the red dots they now dont seam to go as far up and down the country ? hope this makes some sort of sence ?? IE i live in hull and the dots only go as far as nottingham untill you move further south Question

mikealder · Posted: Sat Feb 12, 2011 3:58 pm Post subject:

What device are you using, also is it Live HD Traffic or RDS-TMC - Mike

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garstie · Occasional Visitor Joined: Mar 04, 2006 Posts: 9

hi mike im running a 950 live and your right this only seamed to happen arounf christmas time it is a pain in the ass as i drive and sometime ineed to decied weather to go south on the a1 or the m1 wish i could change bachk thanks Gareth
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mikealder · Posted: Sun Feb 13, 2011 4:37 pm Post subject:

I thought the 50 mile range for the HD Traffic service was just the newer devices running Navcore 10 such as the Go-1000 Live - Mike

garstie · Occasional Visitor Joined: Mar 04, 2006 Posts: 9

Well this one sure not the latest model is there any way it can be change ??

DennisN · Posted: Sun Feb 13, 2011 8:25 pm Post subject:

Seems I'm getting the same on my 550Live. It's only showing three things right now, all within ten miles of me. The TT website Route Planner shows many more all over the country. BUT when I first switched the device on, Traffic told me something like "71 incidents in total", so I imagine they are all still there, just not in view. Seems inconvenient. Sad

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PaulB2005 · Posted: Sun Feb 13, 2011 9:08 pm Post subject:

Same here on my 740. It shows 4 delays within 50 miles however according to the TomTom Route Planner / HD Traffic sites there are delays about 60 miles away not shown on my 740.

Andy_P · Posted: Mon Feb 14, 2011 3:52 pm Post subject:

I think the idea is to have better info in a smaller radius.

The theory being that if you start driving now, the situation will have changed for incidents over 50 miles away by the time you get there.

But as Mike said, I thought that was only happening on the Navcore 10 devices.

WackyRaces · Posted: Mon Feb 14, 2011 10:04 pm Post subject:

When I checked on my 940 last Thursday morning around 8.40am the furthest away traffic incident I was getting data for was 71 miles away by the shortest route in Essex. Perhaps they have slightly increased the range provided so it does now look both ways round the M25 as you approach it.

But I agree that if you are driving somewhere at 11pm at night and can push on at say an indicated 80mph (which will only be an actual 75mph or so and therefore well below 10% + 2mph ACPO speeding threshold) and the only incident of any seriousness is a massive jam in road works in 120 miles time whilst your alternative route down say the A1 instead of M1 is clear then you are not going to be happy.

Its presumably been done because TomTom's servers could not handle spooling the amount of data involved for the required number of users during the rush hour and/or because the x40/x50 series tended to throw wobbles if having to retrieve 600 traffic incidents. My memory is that previously you got up to 600 traffic incidents in the middle of the rush hour and now its only up to 200 or so in my location only 15 miles south of the M25.

garstie · Occasional Visitor Joined: Mar 04, 2006 Posts: 9

As usual they give us a tast of a great thing then take it from us I would even buy a néw one if it was back on the whole country !!!

mikealder · Posted: Mon Feb 14, 2011 10:15 pm Post subject:

Even the RDS-TMC has a better range than this, the last service to offer full county wide Traffic data from TomTom was the subscription Traffic via your Mobile phone, nothing since this has given true country wide coverage - Mike

technik · Posted: Mon Feb 14, 2011 10:21 pm Post subject:

On my 930 GPRS sub, I currently have dots from Liverpool to Brighton, which is definitely over 50 miles.

My sub expires end of the month, so wonder if they will change it then?

I won't be renewing though, as will get a 1000 Live now the POI's are alleged to be working.
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garstie · Occasional Visitor Joined: Mar 04, 2006 Posts: 9

Wonder if the rds receiver would work in conjuction with the HD and give you a bit more ????

PaulB2005 · Posted: Mon Feb 14, 2011 10:56 pm Post subject:

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