Does IQRroutes work on side roads?

[mvl]

I tested out IQroutes on routes.tomtom.com (beta) and was disappointed that it did not do a good job in Boston.

In Boston major planned highways were abandoned at the last minute and replaced with trains in the 70's/80's. This resulted in a number of communities forced to use sideroads only in their commute. In my particular commute, the most direct sideroad has tons of rush hour traffic, and other sideroads don't. I was disappointed that IQroutes ran me straight through the direct sideroad. Hundreds of Boston commuters take these sideroads hourly, so I'm sure there's no shortage of historical tomtom-user data.

Does IQroutes only process main road data? Do they deliberately exclude side roads (eg: to reduce map filesize) even if there is sufficient hourly data?

 

[dhn]

Data for IQ routing is imbedded in the main roads only on the maps since IQ routing only works when the routing method is 'fastest'

 

[sageuvagony]

Weird because the TomTom commercials make it seem like they take you through "shortcuts" but who knows what that would mean.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PXIG2_OnYJE&fmt=18

I also just watched the video on routes.tomtom.com and they seem to be heading in the correct direction I guess.

And the question I have asked many times which is "What the hell are these people smoking when they design certain things?" has just been answered for me. I had no idea their main office was in Amsterdam. That explains everything for me