Direction of destination indicator

Dutchmaestro · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jun 09, 2004 Posts: 3

My father drives a BMW with a GPS system. Overall I'm not impressed with it, however it does have a feature missing from TomTom 3. It has an arrow in the top left of the screen that points to your destination (as the crow flies). I found it very useful if I was stuck in traffic, or was in a new road system not on the map. Does anyone know of any add-on for TomTom that performs a similar function? Thanks.

MrT · Posted: Wed Jun 09, 2004 12:42 pm Post subject:

There is a compass you can display on the screen.

Dutchmaestro · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jun 09, 2004 Posts: 3

The compass is good, however if you reach the end of a road and have a choice of turning left or right it is not immediately obvious which to take.

Maybe I'm the only one who has found the direction feature useful on another product!

DavidW · Posted: Sat Jun 12, 2004 7:24 pm Post subject:

I don't think an add-on is possible, because what I remember of the TomTom SDK is that it doesn't expose any routing details to add-on programs. That said, if you can somehow get hold of the co-ordinates of the destination, it would be possible to write a suitable add-on.

David

Dutchmaestro · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jun 09, 2004 Posts: 3

Thanks David. I thought it was a useful feature and I'm surprised it wasn't on TomTom 3. It seems simply a matter of comparing the co-ordinates of the destination with your current position - if the data was available I'm sure it would be quite straightforward (much easier than the great POI add-ons available).

I'll keep my eye out!

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