new via

[oppconsulting]

i haven't had a new tom tom for wow a long long time

just got a via i have found good and bad

the maps and free maps is nice they added back ways to places

but im still let down tomtom most every nav fails to have true back roads planning

to me it dont seem that hard a option to stay off main or whatever

then do the normal destination settings but tomtom tells me its to hard

beats me im not a programmer but its sad i like the back roads

just road names no route no highway nothing just roads its relaxing

when you got the extra time but i guess its true millions of roads

could be be a major pain but they do already do thousands

millions of highways who knows its not a bad gps there current

what tec support showed is as close to back roads as they have

is goofy all over the place one time almost a circle just to get to a road

and other flaws but i see progress but it has to many things going

on in IL by Chicago i got a ding and traffic looking signal

allot of to many going on things that it should just say stop

dang dinging and icons a accident waiting to happen sorry may be wrong area for

this post just allot to me after being out for so many years the maps

have very nice highway exit views so easy to know how to exit

the trip i used it on i was able to drive around like i knew where i

was or from the area my old tom couldn't do that so i guess until

it gets better im happy for now

 

[Arno]

I'm afraid that your venting post is a bit too general to maybe offer some suggestions to make your driving experience a better one.
Although you prefer back roads you seem to have taken a shine to the 'reality' preview of Interstate exits.

 

[canderson]

> but im still let down tomtom most every nav fails to have true back roads planning

No one understands this better than I do, as there are an incredible number of 'Forest Service Roads' (if you dare call them roads) here in Colorado that are undocumented apart from a few government maps. None of the consumer automotive GPS units have maps that cover roads like that, and the satellite utilities that do pick up additional roads never see them through the canopy, so they won't get added that way. Truth to tell, most vehicles couldn't muster the ground clearance or traction to manage most of them anyway.

In my 'previous life', it was even more difficult to use consumer grade equipment in foreign countries where mapping was even thinner to begin with. When faced with those situations, we used topo maps with notebook PCs with GPS pucks (USB or serial) attached to provide positional information. There are PC apps out there that can handle topo maps and indicate your position using the data from the GPS puck.