TomTom vs Garmin

[philipe]

Hello All,

I have a Tomtom Go 510, and i was considering buying a new device instead of buying a new map, i tried to use Garmin (Nuvi 250) but i felt its so slow and dum, i even compared an address that the sales man tried with me on his Garmin 250 wide screen and my tomtom , and we found it on the tomtom but not on the garmin, it was a proof that tomtom is better,
I never felt that tomtom failed me.

I end up getting a tomtom one 3rd edition and i love it , map share is a great tool that garmin didn't mention anything about.

Can you give me ur opinion about that as more experts in both

Thank you and best regards
Philippe

 

[wup]

I have found that my 2 year old Garmin I2 maps are much more detailed and accurate (more roads and streets and correct street names ) than my TT v3. I prefer the TT interface. It would be great if TT when zooming the map would hold the zoom as Garmin does vs reverting to the default after a few seconds. Also it would be nice to show other roads/streets near your position(Garmin does) other than those that are perpendicular to your travel. If you save a POI that is not on a road, TT seems to store the nearest road intersection position vs your actual position. I don't understand why since the unit has the actual long/lat position that you are at. To me most of these differences are simple software fixes that would greatly enhance the TT.

I have read other threads where modifications can be made to the TT v3 that provides additional capability such as route planning, etc but I've never seen how it is done.