Rant alert!
I finally decided to upgrade my North America 2G map v800 along with the upgrade service for what came to 80 euro(about C$115), and I'm extremely disappointed with the waste of money. Going from 800 to 845 two major highway interchanges in my neighbourhood that were correct in 800 are now completely wrong. One reflects long-ago history, and the other seems to reflect someone's future fantasy. I've checked Tele Atlas website and the same problems are there so I reported them. But somehow Google Maps has it right(as do my older Garmin City Nav v8 for my handheld). Obviously Google is sourcing their data from more than just Tele Atlas.
I'm beginning to feel very disappointed in my purchase of a TomTom. For all the apparently cool features, their data is SO weak. Far fewer POIs with many of them duplicated, and no subcategories. And the touch-screen is so finicky that a passenger cannot easily enter text while the vehicle is moving. And now map updates that represent an outright degradation from previous versions. I've gone from being mildly disappointed now to outright frustrated and angry. Oh, and not to mention rude, and I suspect dishonest, customer support, who absolutely insist that NA simplified has exactly the same POIs as the NA unsimplified. I could understand if they have some finicky technical reason for not being able to sell me the larger data to install on a 4G SD, but being rude to me rather than acknowledge that there's a difference in the POIs is unnecessary and bad for business.
Now I don't know what to do about having just spent C$115 on a map update that I think I won't want to use because it'll be messed up for every trip I take north of my home. I was just in a GPS store today telling them about it(and they do sell a couple TomToms) and the guy actually said "Yeah, in North America the TomTom is pretty much a throw-away GPS". BTW, I was in that store to buy a RAM mount because the TomTom suction cup is terrible and after less than a year won't stick for more than 10 seconds despite all the cleaning in the world.
Arghhh!
Ian
I finally decided to upgrade my North America 2G map v800 along with the upgrade service for what came to 80 euro(about C$115), and I'm extremely disappointed with the waste of money. Going from 800 to 845 two major highway interchanges in my neighbourhood that were correct in 800 are now completely wrong. One reflects long-ago history, and the other seems to reflect someone's future fantasy. I've checked Tele Atlas website and the same problems are there so I reported them. But somehow Google Maps has it right(as do my older Garmin City Nav v8 for my handheld). Obviously Google is sourcing their data from more than just Tele Atlas.
I'm beginning to feel very disappointed in my purchase of a TomTom. For all the apparently cool features, their data is SO weak. Far fewer POIs with many of them duplicated, and no subcategories. And the touch-screen is so finicky that a passenger cannot easily enter text while the vehicle is moving. And now map updates that represent an outright degradation from previous versions. I've gone from being mildly disappointed now to outright frustrated and angry. Oh, and not to mention rude, and I suspect dishonest, customer support, who absolutely insist that NA simplified has exactly the same POIs as the NA unsimplified. I could understand if they have some finicky technical reason for not being able to sell me the larger data to install on a 4G SD, but being rude to me rather than acknowledge that there's a difference in the POIs is unnecessary and bad for business.
Now I don't know what to do about having just spent C$115 on a map update that I think I won't want to use because it'll be messed up for every trip I take north of my home. I was just in a GPS store today telling them about it(and they do sell a couple TomToms) and the guy actually said "Yeah, in North America the TomTom is pretty much a throw-away GPS". BTW, I was in that store to buy a RAM mount because the TomTom suction cup is terrible and after less than a year won't stick for more than 10 seconds despite all the cleaning in the world.
Arghhh!
Ian