help please maps

koiman · Occasional Visitor Joined: May 29, 2006 Posts: 6

hi i have bought a tomtom dvd western europe maps.with the product code.and a 4gb sd card.i have entered the codes in tt and it has given me a activation code to put in my tt one 2nd edition,i cant do this as there is no where to enter on the tt,i have tryed on the tt home and it lets me enter the code and wont go to next page.the codes are ok and working,where will the map be on the dvd or in tt website waiting to download,how do i put these map on a sd card i have tryed back up and the new card to restore,tt home wont reconise it help plz as i need a french map to go fishing soon

thanks chris
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mikealder · Posted: Sat Jul 02, 2011 10:22 am Post subject:

Maps are purchased through the TomTom Home software this does all the transaction activation, download, installation etc.

TomTom Navigator 6 for use on a PDA was the last version I know of to be supplied on DVD and these maps are way out of date, so much so that I wouldn't bother trying to use them - Mike

Andy_P · Posted: Sat Jul 02, 2011 2:15 pm Post subject:

Yes where on earth did this DVD come from, and did the advert say they were maps that would work on the TomTom hardware models / pnds?
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koiman · Occasional Visitor Joined: May 29, 2006 Posts: 6

hi thanks for reply the maps came from ebay sealed box the codes work ok at tom tom they say they are ok,they are supossed to be for my tt one,tt home have picked the maps up from the dvd but i cant transfer them to sd card as ttone memory is to small,so if i download a tt map from there site will it go on a sd card in card reader as tthome wont accept it from unit or card reader

thanks chris

mikealder · Posted: Sat Jul 02, 2011 6:09 pm Post subject:

A 4GB card wont work with the One unless its a true SD card (most cards of 4GB capacity are SDHC and these won't work with your hardware). Get a 2GB card and copy the entire contents from your existing card to the new one, make sure that works before you try adding maps from the DVD - Mike

Andy_P · Posted: Sun Jul 03, 2011 1:06 pm Post subject:

I may be searching for the wrong keywords, but I cannot find any maps on DVD on eBay at the moment.

AFAIK (and I could be wrong) TomTom haven't produced maps on DVD for a very long time, so they may be very old. Does it say what version number they are in any of the cocumentation?
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koiman · Occasional Visitor Joined: May 29, 2006 Posts: 6

hi the dvd says
tt go series
tt one
tt rider
maps collection western europe-dvd

it has product code on card inside
no other info

i have managed to put my uk card on new 2gbsd card but still wont dowload the maps i want via home ask for activation code which tt gave me but wont go to next page

thanks chris

mikealder · Posted: Mon Jul 04, 2011 6:41 pm Post subject:

Is it worth establishing how old these maps actually are, at a guess they could be four or five years old and therefore of little use when compared to the modern road layouts.
Pop the disk in the PC and use Windows Explorer to view the contents, can you see any files/ folders? - Mike

koiman · Occasional Visitor Joined: May 29, 2006 Posts: 6

hi yes there are lots of files
raster
app
licences
manul
maps all there
vocies etc
when i look in maps there all there for europe
home has read the dvd and given the maps to download but it ask for a activition code.
i went on ttcodes page entered the product code and unit code it gave me a activition code which wont work if i enter 6letters it says next but i enter all the code the next button goes off
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mikealder · Posted: Tue Jul 05, 2011 7:25 am Post subject:

Open one of the map folders lets say "France" then look for a file in the France folder called "France.pna" right click this file and select "Open With/ NotePad" what is the version number shown in the text file - Mike

koiman · Occasional Visitor Joined: May 29, 2006 Posts: 6

hi only found this
ID=France.pna
1716016748
650
build=1111
id=46030

Andy_P · Posted: Wed Jul 06, 2011 2:03 am Post subject:

As we thought, I'm afraid....

That text file shows the maps on the DVD are v650 which were released in April-may 2006, so they are over 5 years old.

Current maps are v870 and new ones are released quarterly. As we said, they are now usually only available by download, although occasionally they sell slightly old versions on SD card, but not DVD any more.
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