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Scott
 Post subject: Re: TomTom updated maps
PostPosted: 2006-07-15 14:31:27
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On Sat, 15 Jul 2006 13:57:04 +0100, Conor
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>In article , Scott says...
>
>> When you say most maps do you mean paper maps? Computer software
>> should be capable of being updated more quickly than paper maps.
>
>Not really. It all depends on how often the software providers, such as
>TomTom, request the data from the mapping companies. They could get it
>every week and release new maps every week but there has to be a
>balance.

My point exactly. I think the balance should be shifted from
releasing new products to customer service for existing customers.
First it was second quarter then start of the third quarter.
>
>> The
>> very fact that there was an estimated date of completion means that it
>> was known about in advance.
>>
>Well as it was probably in the design and pre-building process for a
>good few years, I expect so.
>
>> Anyway I was using this as an example. Other posters have pointed out
>> changes made eight years ago.
>>
>Well on my Satnav, it doesnt show Tosser.St which has been there on a
>housing estate built 8 years ago.

Perfectly reasonable point.
>
>Have you filled in the forms on NAVTEQ/TeleAtlas to inform them?

URL please.
>
>No. Should I?
>
>OF COURSE YOU FUCKING SHOULD. Theyve obviously missed it and, like
>software companies, they cant know about the problem if people dont
>tell them.

I thought they were professional cartographers paid to update the
maps. You are saying it is some sort of self-help community. I dont
remember being told that when I first bought the equipment. Anyway
changes such as one way streets, no right turn restrictions etc have
to be published in advance.
>
>It does sod all good pointing them out in here and in forums. Tell
>NAVTEQ/TeleAtlas. Theyre the ones providing the mapping data.

Others have said they have notified errors only to see them ignored in
the next update.


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Ian Such
 Post subject: Re: TomTom updated maps
PostPosted: 2006-07-15 15:46:30
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Scott wrote:

> Perfectly reasonable point.
>> Have you filled in the forms on NAVTEQ/TeleAtlas to inform them?
>
> URL please.

URLs obtained via Google search:


http://www.navteq.com/updates/mapfeedback.html

http://mapinsight.teleatlas.com/cfl


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Alan
 Post subject: Re: TomTom updated maps
PostPosted: 2006-07-15 16:55:12
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In message , Ian Such
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>http://mapinsight.teleatlas.com/cfl

Unexpected Error - please try again later

Going back a directory gives

Tele Atlas MapInsight (Beta)

... and nothing else.



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Conor
 Post subject: Re: TomTom updated maps
PostPosted: 2006-07-15 19:52:35
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In article , Scott says...

> >Have you filled in the forms on NAVTEQ/TeleAtlas to inform them?
>
> URL please.

http://www.teleatlas.com/Pub/Support/MapFeedback/index.htm
http://www.navteq.com/updates/mapfeedback.html
> >It does sod all good pointing them out in here and in forums. Tell
> >NAVTEQ/TeleAtlas. Theyre the ones providing the mapping data.
>
> Others have said they have notified errors only to see them ignored in
> the next update.
>
Next update from whom, their GPS software suppliers? Who is to say that
the version updated is the one that theirs has gone into?

AS was shown on a TV programme, where theres a problem, a driver is
sent out with recording equipment. The road in question is plotted,
descriptions made then it is coverted into whatever the mapping
companies use then sent to the main place that coallates them and
finally included.


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Alan
 Post subject: Re: TomTom updated maps
PostPosted: 2006-07-16 00:50:01
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In message , Conor
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>Next update from whom, their GPS software suppliers? Who is to say that
>the version updated is the one that theirs has gone into?
>
>AS was shown on a TV programme,

Which advertising sponsored program are you quoting as factual.

> where theres a problem, a driver is
>sent out with recording equipment. The road in question is plotted,
>descriptions made then it is coverted into whatever the mapping
>companies use then sent to the main place that coallates them and
>finally included.
>

The result is up-to-date maps, therefore Tomtom is either employing
incompetent map makers that cannot be bothered to map UK roads in a
timely manner or they are supplying old maps.

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Steve Firth
 Post subject: Re: TomTom updated maps
PostPosted: 2006-07-16 01:09:28
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On Sun, 16 Jul 2006 00:50:01 +0100, Alan wrote:

> Tomtom is either employing
> incompetent map makers that cannot be bothered to map UK roads in a
> timely manner or they are supplying old maps.

What do you mean either and what do you mean or? Substitute and for
or and delete either.


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