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I have an ageing TomTom, have never updated it nor do I intend to. It remains a fit-for-purpose backup when I need to plan routes out of both phone and wifi coverage.
Within that coverage, Google Maps on my phone is King. You no longer need reasonably continuous coverage DURING your journey - the mapping can be offline on your phone's SD card and is compact.
The last time I used TomTom was in Devon! Didn't need it in France at all.
I have an ageing TomTom, have never updated it nor do I intend to. It remains a fit-for-purpose backup when I need to plan routes out of both phone and wifi coverage.
Within that coverage, Google Maps on my phone is King. You no longer need reasonably continuous coverage DURING your journey - the mapping can be offline on your phone's SD card and is compact.
The last time I used TomTom was in Devon! Didn't need it in France at all.
You can use the Home programme "Manage my device" to remove unwanted POI's and Voices etcetera.
The problem is some of the maps available now are so large the memory capacity in the device cannot hold them so they have to be sectionalised. ie file is 2.5gb and memory is only 2gb.
There are maps that are smaller file sizes which will fit the devices memory but they do not have the same level of detail .
I have an ageing TomTom, have never updated it nor do I intend to. It remains a fit-for-purpose backup when I need to plan routes out of both phone and wifi coverage.
Within that coverage, Google Maps on my phone is King. You no longer need reasonably continuous coverage DURING your journey - the mapping can be offline on your phone's SD card and is compact.
The last time I used TomTom was in Devon! Didn't need it in France at all.
Dave
How much does it cost to use?
Kev,
Free to install on your phone. Then it is just the data cost over wifi or phone network. I use Vodafone Data Traveller when abroad, which gives me 25Mb per day.
The route and map area around it is cached, and remains available provided you don't close the app.
Separately you can also download mapping of a city say, and it keeps it for 30 days.
I have an ageing TomTom, have never updated it nor do I intend to. It remains a fit-for-purpose backup when I need to plan routes out of both phone and wifi coverage.
Within that coverage, Google Maps on my phone is King. You no longer need reasonably continuous coverage DURING your journey - the mapping can be offline on your phone's SD card and is compact.
The last time I used TomTom was in Devon! Didn't need it in France at all.
Dave
How much does it cost to use?
Kev,
Free to install on your phone. Then it is just the data cost over wifi or phone network. I use Vodafone Data Traveller when abroad, which gives me 25Mb per day.
The route and map area around it is cached, and remains available provided you don't close the app.
Separately you can also download mapping of a city say, and it keeps it for 30 days.
Dave
Hmm sounds interesting, but how much does it cost to run Dave.
I don't know how to answer your question. It depends on what methods YOU choose to provide an internet connection at route start.
As I say, I use Vodafone Data Traveller or campsite wifi. But people have far more diverse means of internet connection than that.
If you intend travelling and have NO internet connection whatsoever, it isn't a solution for you. This is effectively what happened to me in Devon. It's a connectivity desert.
I see, I've never connected via my mobile as it's an older one, but come June I'll be upgrading to a smart phone and might try google then, and I just wondered if it was an expensive way to use Sat Nav compared with my Tom Tom one.
Having spent lots of time and effort, firstly trying to resolve the issues with regard to my Tomtom that now only allows me to navigate around Europe with 5 zones, that meant I would have to muck about on borders of each zone in order to get mapping for the next zone loaded on my device (And by the way thanks to all of you who spent your valuable time trying to help me out, especially Doug) I decided to go along the legal route by useing Trading Standards as back up together with the Sale of goods act 1982 stating that my Tomtom unit purchased April 2010 was not fit for purpose because on the box it came with, was stated that I have mapping for 42 European countries installed. Having climbed up the stairs of the Ivory Tower in Amsterdam I finally got a very nice Manager who was a decision maker, to agree to a deal which has now given me what I thought I had purchased in the first place. I now have the new Via 120 live Tomtom device which has 45 European countries loaded plus more memory space for other items. A really good piece of kit that is so simple to use/update etc. My old unit cost £150 and the new unit cost £200 so I agreed to pay the differance in order to get a later model that delivers far more than my XL IQ did. But why should we have to go through all of the stress and agrevasion in cases like this, to get what we pay for??
Having spent lots of time and effort, firstly trying to resolve the issues with regard to my Tomtom that now only allows me to navigate around Europe with 5 zones, that meant I would have to muck about on borders of each zone in order to get mapping for the next zone loaded on my device (And by the way thanks to all of you who spent your valuable time trying to help me out, especially Doug) I decided to go along the legal route by useing Trading Standards as back up together with the Sale of goods act 1982 stating that my Tomtom unit purchased April 2010 was not fit for purpose because on the box it came with, was stated that I have mapping for 42 European countries installed. Having climbed up the stairs of the Ivory Tower in Amsterdam I finally got a very nice Manager who was a decision maker, to agree to a deal which has now given me what I thought I had purchased in the first place. I now have the new Via 120 live Tomtom device which has 45 European countries loaded plus more memory space for other items. A really good piece of kit that is so simple to use/update etc. My old unit cost £150 and the new unit cost £200 so I agreed to pay the differance in order to get a later model that delivers far more than my XL IQ did. But why should we have to go through all of the stress and agrevasion in cases like this, to get what we pay for??
A good result then?
Nice one.
Having stupidly damaged my TT 720 (with SD card slot), I opted for another, and am able to have the latest European Truck maps on the 4Gb SD card, and the smaller Western Europe maps on the internal 2Gb memory.
Cheers,
Jock.
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