Does TomTom Go show traffic only around my location?

[kacnje]

I'm located in Slovenia. When I open an application, I can see traffic information in Slovenia and parts of nearby countries.
I understand that this behavior is probably an optimization, but why doesn't it show traffic, if I prepare a route to a destination which isn't nearby?

 

[Willy875]

It seems normal that the application cannot predict the traffic that will be available several kilometers from your position.

Traffic will be available in real time only on your route.

 

[kacnje]

Sorry, my English isn't good enough and maybe I didn't explain.
Example: I'm in Slovenia at the moment, but I want to check the traffic in Salzburg at the moment where my friends are at the moment.
No way. I can check it in Google Maps, but not in the TomTom GO application. Well, I can use TomTom maps in the browser.

 

[Willy875]

If you want to know the traffic among your friends open Mydrive web on your computer.

 

[kacnje]

Totally agree if I'm at home

 

[JuergenAMS]

Traffic information is limited to your location in the interest of saving data on your phone. It is considered using online search. But the app also uses statistic data so it will consider how likely it is if a traffic jam is still there by the time you reach a location. So if I plan a route from Amsterdam to Paris now in the early morning, online routing sees that there is a traffic jam in Antwerpen now during rush hour but it will take me an hour to get there and by then that traffic jam will most likely be resolved.

 

[kacnje]

I often just want to check the traffic somewhere (our team drives over Europe). I don't need a route from my point. I fully understand that this is a limitation due to optimization.
Just asking. At the moment I open Google Maps and check there.

 

[raesewell]

The MyDrive app will give you wider traffic information.

 

[kacnje]

MyDrive app "isn't available for my device - only for older Android phone".
A better idea is to open a browser and check traffic on TomTom's map website.

 

[JuergenAMS]

Not sure why that's shown to some users but the MyDrive app is compatible with newer phones too.
Here's an article with a like to the APK file: https://help.tomtom.com/hc/articles/12209651188498

 

[canderson]

Not sure why that's shown to some users but the MyDrive app is compatible with newer phones too.
Here's an article with a like to the APK file: https://help.tomtom.com/hc/articles/12209651188498

Any idea what's up with TT's Android manifests that keeps causing these issues??? Surprised that this has been allowed to continue.

 

[JuergenAMS]

Any idea what's up with TT's Android manifests that keeps causing these issues??? Surprised that this has been allowed to continue.

The problem is probably that this message is not shown to all but only some users.

 

[JuergenAMS]

Any idea what's up with TT's Android manifests that keeps causing these issues??? Surprised that this has been allowed to continue.

Actually, we released version MyDrive 2.17.0 to Google Play yesterday which should fix the issue.

 

[Rhodez]

I would like to give this tread a little bump. Personally I don't understand why Tomtom doesn't give the cliënt an option to choose for traffic information in all the downloaded maps. For long distance travels it is essential to know where traffic jams are so you can choose which highway is the fastest. For example: if you go from The Netherlands to Disneyland, it can be faster to drive via Charleroi when there are jams near the north of Paris. But then you need to know at an very early stage in the trip that the jams are there.

Now, that is not possible, so Tomtom willen send you suboptimal routes.

 

[Willy875]

I would like to give this tread a little bump. Personally I don't understand why Tomtom doesn't give the cliënt an option to choose for traffic information in all the downloaded maps. For long distance travels it is essential to know where traffic jams are so you can choose which highway is the fastest. For example: if you go from The Netherlands to Disneyland, it can be faster to drive via Charleroi when there are jams near the north of Paris. But then you need to know at an very early stage in the trip that the jams are there.

Now, that is not possible, so Tomtom willen send you suboptimal routes.

It makes sense if your GPS provides this information about the possibility of a traffic jam in Paris when you leave the Netherlands. It's very likely that when you arrive in Paris, there will no longer be a traffic jam.

There may be a traffic jam in one place 5 or 10 minutes later, but it's gone.

 

[kacnje]

When my friends are traveling (and they are before the traffic jam), they often ask me where to go over the chat. Almost all use Google Maps today, so they ask me how TomTom sees traffic. But I can't see it. For example, I can't check the current traffic situation in München.
There are also situations when I just want to check traffic out of curiosity.
Probably, TomTom doesn't have a robust IT infrastructure, and they optimize web traffic.

 

[Niall]

@kacnje
If you check out plan.tomtom.com as here . An example of Ljubljana to Munich, you can zoom in to the destination and see the trafic problems in Munich also the road works on all of the routes

 

[kacnje]

You are right.
In my case, I rarely use plan.tomtom.com (it doesn't remember my login on the computer on Brave, and doesn't show on Firefox - both browsers are quite secure in my case), and almost never on the phone.

 

[Willy875]

Ljubljana to Munich: 407 km, 4.5 hours.
If a traffic jam is reported in Munich, it's not certain that the jam will still be there 4.5 hours after your departure.

So I prefer my GPS or the app to warn me of the possibility of an upcoming traffic jam.

 

[kacnje]

Yes, that is clear. In my case, my friend is before Munich and asks me how TomTom sees the traffic and what I suggest (because I can get information much easier than he can in the car).
But it was just a question; we don't need to get deep in this.