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| Nospam 2007-11-22, 3:33 pm |
| I see that you can buy extra maps to load into the TomTom
Would I be correct in saying that if I bought a TomTom today it would
come with the latest western European maps (version 7.10 I think)?
I see I can buy a map of areas that are already covered by the European
set, like Italy.
does the separate map have more detail than the map that is included in
the whole set?
Does anyone know how often maps are released, are they released
regularly in order to 'encourage' users to continually update, thus
providing TomTom with more finance?
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| Trent L 2007-11-22, 10:33 pm |
| Yes you can buy extra maps. The limiting factor is how much memory you have
available.
Older units had an SD card slot, so you could simply buy a bigger card (up
to 4Gb).
Newer TT's have onboard memory - so depends on where you buy it as to how
much memory it has.
Latest maps are v7.10. Previous version was v.675.14**
New maps are supposed to include MapShare - so you can correct errors and it
will share the changes
with other uses (& update the TT information for them for free).
They release map updates annually (thereabouts). The updates are fairly
expensive and are usually
well behind what you would find in a street directory.
I suspect that even after TT pay licensing fees, they are making a fair quid
out of updates.
"Nospam" <nospam@nospam.demon.co.uk> wrote in message
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>I see that you can buy extra maps to load into the TomTom
>
> Would I be correct in saying that if I bought a TomTom today it would come
> with the latest western European maps (version 7.10 I think)?
>
>
> I see I can buy a map of areas that are already covered by the European
> set, like Italy.
>
> does the separate map have more detail than the map that is included in
> the whole set?
>
> Does anyone know how often maps are released, are they released regularly
> in order to 'encourage' users to continually update, thus providing TomTom
> with more finance?
>
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> Nospam
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| Mark Hewitt 2007-11-26, 10:33 am |
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"Nospam" <nospam@nospam.demon.co.uk> wrote in message
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>I see that you can buy extra maps to load into the TomTom
>
> Would I be correct in saying that if I bought a TomTom today it would come
> with the latest western European maps (version 7.10 I think)?
For the most part, yes. You might be unlucky and get a model which has been
sitting on a shelf for a long while, but you should be okay if the model you
are getting is one of the new x20 ones.
> I see I can buy a map of areas that are already covered by the European
> set, like Italy.
Yes.
> does the separate map have more detail than the map that is included in
> the whole set?
No, the individual maps are just the WE maps chopped up.
> Does anyone know how often maps are released, are they released regularly
> in order to 'encourage' users to continually update, thus providing TomTom
> with more finance?
Usually about once every 6 months to a year or so. But it can be a bugger
trying to find out if they have been updated or not!
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| Mark Hewitt 2008-01-03, 7:33 am |
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"SS49" <ss49#@ speedway .com> wrote in message
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> Hi
> I have a tomtom one which was bought in Australia with maps to suit, a
> mate of mine wants to buy one from the US as they are a third of the
> price.Can I copy the Australian map on my unit on to his, and if it is
> possible how would I go about it .
Yes, you should just be able to copy the map folder across from the storage
card. However maps need activating and it may be that your map won't
activate on his unit.
One sure way is to buy the Australia map from the TomTom website, yes it'll
cost you more but may well still end up cheaper.
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| anyone@nowhere.com 2008-01-03, 10:33 am |
| No you can't do it. The maps are 'locked' to the particular unit.
Otherwise, TomTom couldn't sell any maps, could they!
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| yes you can this is very easy to do you just need the right software,I found
this out because I had a genuine tomtom product but lost the product code
for it and tomtom did'nt want to know,so I set of using the internet to find
a solution,Google is your friend,Bob
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> No you can't do it. The maps are 'locked' to the particular unit.
> Otherwise, TomTom couldn't sell any maps, could they!
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| Shakey 2008-01-03, 10:33 pm |
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<anyone@nowhere.com> wrote in message
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> No you can't do it. The maps are 'locked' to the particular unit.
> Otherwise, TomTom couldn't sell any maps, could they!
Naive
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| I'm sorry to say this again but you can do it,I got a tomtom 2nd hand only
about a month old,it had uk map on it but also it came with a europe map on
another card,when I put the europe card in it said this has allready been
activated and it gave me a website to go to,having gone to this website it
said it was for uk only which clearly it was'nt,so I rang tomtom up to tell
them of my delema,they was'nt at all interested because I did'nt have the
product code for the card,so I did some searching and got some software
which let me activate it
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> <anyone@nowhere.com> wrote in message
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> Naive
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| f.ten.velde@hetnet.nl 2008-01-15, 3:33 pm |
| TOMTOM garantees that you can free update your maps to the latest
release within 30 days after buying the tomtom.
I recently bought a GO910 with maps version 6.5. After a call with
tomtom I was able to download the latest maps from their website!
Fr@nk
On 22 nov 2007, 21:35, Nospam <nos...@nospam.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> I see that you can buy extra maps to load into the TomTom
>
> Would I be correct in saying that if I bought a TomTom today it would
> come with the latest western European maps (version 7.10 I think)?
>
> I see I can buy a map of areas that are already covered by the European
> set, like Italy.
>
> does the separate map have more detail than the map that is included in
> the whole set?
>
> Does anyone know how often maps are released, are they released
> regularly in order to 'encourage' users to continually update, thus
> providing TomTom with more finance?
>
> --
> Nospam
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