How good was your tomtom in Spain ? Forums

M5ZAP · Last edited by M5ZAP on Tue Feb 26, 2008 9:22 pm; edited 2 times in total

Hi all

Off to Spain on 16th March Portsmouth to Bilbao. We are planing one night stop in Arunda de Duero and then straight down to Granada for a longer stop over, before moving onto the coast.

My question is "How good is the Tomtom navigation software in Spain ?". I have a tomtom 720 with the European maps. Its just I have nightmares of it taking us straight through the centre of madrid.

Has any body used there tomtom to take them around Madrid on this route, and if so did it use a sensible route.

Many Thanks Andy

takeaflight

Hi Yes and Yes

enjoy the trip.

Roy

blondy

we are just back from spain using our tom tom 720for guidance, It was brilliant,
no complaints at all, just a point I allways look at the map ( on tom tom) at roundabouts ect to see which exit to take as extra exits seem to appair
occasionaly, Acording to relatives who live there a roundabout can appair in the xmas break away, anyway have fun, I'm sure you will
Don

eddied

Buona sera, used my TomTom GO710 'bout a month ago, but since learnt that my map is out of date (1 year old?). Evidently road layouts in Spain changing at about 20% per year. Didn't touch Madrid, but TomTom was certainly fooled by the new bypass around Valencia, and didn't cope well with the one way systems in Granada. For the rest was OK as far as satnavs go (I don't trust them completely!)
saluti,
eddied

M5ZAP

Thanks Don,

I always check the map on the Tomtom for islands/ Junctions as I agrea with you the spoken instructions can often be slightly misleading.

Regards Andy

DollarYen · Account Deactivated

There are no roundabouts (glorieta ) on the Madrid ring road. Don't bother looking at the sat nav, follow the signs. I reckon at the widest point there are 24 lanes, 12 each way. Try to avoid the rush hour, i reckon mid morning is the best time to go through.

rapidorob

Hi M5ZAP,
Most of the time ours behaved, however, we found putting in waypoints took us the better route, avoiding Madrid. The first time with TomTom was via Madrid was a nightmare, with a whole motorway closed for repairs and no diversion signs, the GPS was taking us in circles. Even local drivers were having problems! Last year a similar problem arose when a road was closed, again no signage, and good old TomTom took us down a dead end road with cars parked all over the place and a piece of orange string acting as a barrier to a 40 foot shear drop!!! Thankfully we had installed a rear view camera system, as we had to make a sixteen point turn to get out. Since then we have sorted out the use of the road block avoidance set up and would advise going for the longer detour just to be sure. Tom tom is great as long as the locals don't throw in road closures but I will pre plan our route to avoid Madrid every time. Use it as an aid and not rely 100% on it. Have a great time over there.

The_Hog

Hi Andy,
To be honest, from Bilbao to Granada is quite straight forward - unless you want to avoid the toll roads.
In January I went to the Algarve from Bilbao (AP68) towards Vitoria-Gastiez then AP1 to Burgos, A1 towards Madrid, M50 around Madrid, A4 to Seville then on to Portugal. If you take the same but come off the A4 and on to the A44 just before Cordoba I'm sure you will be fine.
I seem to recall that my TomTom did want to take me towards Madrid but I ignored it and went around the new ring road (the M50). Apart from that it was fine.
I use a TomTom One (Europe) by the way.

Have a good trip. Very Happy

Allan

Chigman

Hi

I always use the TRAVEL VIA option when I want my Tom Tom 500 to take me a certain way.

steve

monsi

Hi Andy
Tomtom work just fine from a-b in spain,however i used the campsite poi's as it has a lot of the campsites already in, lastest mapping Razz

i thought, to cut a long story short it took me to a very remote place up a single track road, you have arrived Smile

NOT brick wall with 7 cars facing me all wanting me to reverse a 9mtr MH Shocked

The moral of the story A-B great, built in poi's NO lol, Andy take some HF gear 20mtrs has been open here in spain to Asia Very Happy

Brian M0NSI