Import routes to TomTom Go Navigation on iPhone

[AC68]

I have had a TomTom Go 5200 for many years and have always created a route file (.itn) in 3 party software and then copied to micro SD card. TT unit navigates between waypoints and adjust for traffic, road closures etc.
Moving across to Go Navigation on an iPhone and again I want to use a route file containing multiple way points and not a track (gpx). Go Navigation allows you to create a route on the Iphone but this is a little tedious and you cant share with anyone. If you use MyDrive or its successor Plan.TomTom you can create a route with waypoints but as soon as it syncs with Go Navigation it becomes a track file (gpx). All waypoints are lost and navigation religiously follows the track so even if the road is blocked no alternative will be offered!
Anyone know how to get a TomTom route file (.itn) onto an IPhone for use in Go Navigation?????

 

[Willy875]

Unless there is an error, the Go Navigation application does not support ITN files
So on Mydrive if you create your route with waypoints you will have to go.

 

[AC68]

Unless there is an error, the Go Navigation application does not support ITN files
So on Mydrive if you create your route with waypoints you will have to go.

If you create a route on a phone containing multiple waypoints ie "My Places" this allows options such as "skip next stop" to be available in the route menu. This option is not available if you have synced any sort of route via MyDrive as it is a track. This suggest that, if created on the phone as a route to follow, Go Navigation is navigating from waypoint to waypoint and not simply following a track.
This is exactly how I want Go Navigation to perform but am still searching for how to import a route file (not a track)!

 

[Willy875]

This option is not available, you must ask Tomtom to create this option to be able to add an ITN file.

 

[Shaggy33]

Welcome to the joys of TomTom and it's total failure to provide any sort of route planning off device!
I made the mistake of buying a TomTom Rider 550 a few years ago due the lies from TomTom about route planning. TomTom do not allow, support, or plan to support ANY form of route planning off the device!
I can plan a route, with stops in a few minutes, and share it, using Google maps. Unbelievably, it takes, literally, hours with a TomTom!
Planning is a nightmare, many useful places such as fuel station are missing, mis-named, or can't be found even using the post code and formal address!! Business names are not available, house numbers are often in the wrong location.
So the process is :
1. plan it using Google maps. This allows you to quickly check and adjust route sections, times distances between stops etc.
2. Take each stop, one at a time on the device and try and find TomTom's name for it by repeatedly trying variations of names, postcodes, street names etc. Write these down using pen and paper.
3. When you have finally found them all, create the route directly on your device.
4. Carefully compare the TomTom route to the Google route.
5. Share your pen and paper with fellow riders so they can do the same because TomTom do not allow you to share the route.

Now, thinking logically, after step 1 - buy a mount for your phone, forget the rest of the steps! They a fraction of the price of TomTom devices and you save yourself hours of work and frustration on every trip.

Sharing of 'routes' is not possible, you can only share a 'track' which does not have any stops showing. Not only that it completely defeats the purpose of the device as it will follow the track blindly and not re-route you to the best route between your stops, e.g. in case of traffic accidents etc.
TomTom aren't even consistent in their lies, they will tell you how to 'share a route', then change to 'track' part way through leaving you bewildered as to what the hell you just wasted your time for.

Unfortunately, I bought mine just before the pandemic so didn't get the opportunity to find out just how useless TomTom devices are until it was too late to return for a refund. I will never buy another TomTom device, or a car that uses TomTom SatNav - it's so totally useless it's a deal breaker for me.

TLDR: Don't buy a TomTom, buy a phone mount.

 

[AC68]

Welcome to the joys of TomTom and it's total failure to provide any sort of route planning off device!
I made the mistake of buying a TomTom Rider 550 a few years ago due the lies from TomTom about route planning. TomTom do not allow, support, or plan to support ANY form of route planning off the device!
I can plan a route, with stops in a few minutes, and share it, using Google maps. Unbelievably, it takes, literally, hours with a TomTom!
Planning is a nightmare, many useful places such as fuel station are missing, mis-named, or can't be found even using the post code and formal address!! Business names are not available, house numbers are often in the wrong location.
So the process is :
1. plan it using Google maps. This allows you to quickly check and adjust route sections, times distances between stops etc.
2. Take each stop, one at a time on the device and try and find TomTom's name for it by repeatedly trying variations of names, postcodes, street names etc. Write these down using pen and paper.
3. When you have finally found them all, create the route directly on your device.
4. Carefully compare the TomTom route to the Google route.
5. Share your pen and paper with fellow riders so they can do the same because TomTom do not allow you to share the route.

Now, thinking logically, after step 1 - buy a mount for your phone, forget the rest of the steps! They a fraction of the price of TomTom devices and you save yourself hours of work and frustration on every trip.

Sharing of 'routes' is not possible, you can only share a 'track' which does not have any stops showing. Not only that it completely defeats the purpose of the device as it will follow the track blindly and not re-route you to the best route between your stops, e.g. in case of traffic accidents etc.
TomTom aren't even consistent in their lies, they will tell you how to 'share a route', then change to 'track' part way through leaving you bewildered as to what the hell you just wasted your time for.

Unfortunately, I bought mine just before the pandemic so didn't get the opportunity to find out just how useless TomTom devices are until it was too late to return for a refund. I will never buy another TomTom device, or a car that uses TomTom SatNav - it's so totally useless it's a deal breaker for me.

TLDR: Don't buy a TomTom, buy a phone mount.

Your TT Rider has an SD card slot. Use 3rd party software such as MyRouteApp Naviigation or Tyre and create a .itn file with multiple waypoints. Save to PC and then copy to SD card. Insert into TT unit and you will be prompted to import a route. This will be a route file and not a track and the TT will navigate between the waypoints. You can share routes like this easily via MRA Navigation. I have been using a TT unit for well in excess of 14 years and can assure you TT units are far better and more flexible than any phone app!

 

[Shaggy33]

Your TT Rider has an SD card slot. Use 3rd party software such as MyRouteApp Naviigation or Tyre and create a .itn file with multiple waypoints. Save to PC and then copy to SD card. Insert into TT unit and you will be prompted to import a route. This will be a route file and not a track and the TT will navigate between the waypoints. You can share routes like this easily via MRA Navigation. I have been using a TT unit for well in excess of 14 years and can assure you TT units are far better and more flexible than any phone app!

Sorry, Google maps doesn't need a 3rd party app, or an SD card, or manual transfer of physical objects - so, on those features the TT device is worse than a smartphone app - although Google maps is actually device agnostic.
To add to that, smartphone screens are larger and higher resolution. And their batteries last longer. And they are smaller. And you can share the routes easily via WiFi, Bluetooth, email, WhatsApp, F'book etc etc all without leaving your device - if you really want to go back to the dark ages, you can even save to SD card and walk to your friends house...

And then there's the price! Worldwide, up to date maps for free, vs TT's out of date, incomplete maps split into multiple, extremely expensive regions? I can buy multiple smartphones that run Google maps for the price of the TT Rider!

Is there some kind of typo in your last sentence? Or do you have any examples of where a TT device is actually better?

Now, hear me out, this is just a thought....
How about if TT provided software to create the routes and share them to the device?
They have route planning software, albeit it's a bit crap, but it doesn't send routes to their own hardware! This is undergraduate, final year project levels of simplicity to send a list of way points over Bluetooth, or Wi-Fi.