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 Dec 19 2008, 15:47
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Posted News:
Now on yourNAV: TomTom: Map Share milestone and prize
TomTom’s Map Share has reached an important milestone: 5 million updates. The company also received a prize for HD Traffic and IQ Routes.
Click the headline to read this news post... Click 'REPLY' if you want to reply to this news post The yourNAV team |
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Dec 19 2008, 21:21
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Member Group: Members Posts: 43 Joined: 31/12/2005 |
Since they have ignored every major mapping problem I have sent them.
map errors 2 way street, not 1 way. roads dont exist roads exist dont turn down that street why have you taken me twice the distance to get from a to b by going via c ?? sorry tt maps & navigation is dreadful in fact i know i have a "surprise" garmin unit waiting for me in a week. anyone want a TT 1 XL with latest inaccurate maps on ? |
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Dec 20 2008, 22:42
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 Moderator Group: Admin Posts: 6,702 Joined: 15/05/2005 From: West London |
Good luck with your Garmin.
At least you won't have ANY Mapshare updates or free major software revisions to worry about! |
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Dec 21 2008, 15:31
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Member Group: Members Posts: 83 Joined: 10/07/2006 |
"Their combined efforts has resulted in the hundreds of thousands street names being added (...)"
And yet neither of the fixes I submitted were added. Some, as important as non-existing motorways (motorways that are meant to be constructed in 1 year or more from now). Some of those were only fixed after all TV channels showed how buggy they were for tourists this same year. So, do I trust this service? Answer is: NO. I own two different PNDs from tomtom. I added the fixes in one of them. I synced the other one (with non-reviewed fixes accepted) and my second PND maps are still buggy. Tomtom is better at selling than coding. Thankfully there's ongoing projects like http://www.openstreetmap.org , which seems to be less buggy. Hopefully some PND will use it in a near future This post has been edited by daadoodoo: Dec 21 2008, 15:36 |
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Jan 4 2009, 17:43
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Member Group: Members Posts: 20 Joined: 28/12/2006 From: Sweden |
I have a question... what happens to mapshare fixes when a new map comes out? I mean in theory a whole lot of the updates could be covered by the fixed and thus make actual updates unnecessary, if users are very good about submitting updates.
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Jan 5 2009, 13:39
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Moderator Group: Admin Posts: 6,702 Joined: 15/05/2005 From: West London |
It's a nice idea in theory, but I'm afraid the practice is rather different...
Firstly, the MapShare fixes can only alter small details of EXISTING roads, you can't add roads, move them about or delete them using MapShare (only make a written report about it). So new map versions are still essential. Secondly, so far, TeleAtlas and TomTom have NOT been using our MapShare corrections to produce new maps AT ALL! I think the next release or the one after thet will be the first to begin using some of our supplied data. Thirdly, as MapShare is set up at the moment, the corrections are not even copied from one map into the correction downloads for the next, so if you have made a correction on your map, and then buy a new one, if the correction has not been made by different means, you have to make the correction all over again. MapShare is very young technology, I think in years to come it will work just as you suggest, but we are a long way from it right now. |
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