TomTom POI's for Byways or Green Lanes

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Andrew Cooke

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OK so maybe it's wishful thinking but does anyone know if a database of
Byways is around on tinternet suitable for the TomTom?


 
Andrew Cooke wrote:
> OK so maybe it's wishful thinking but does anyone know if a database
> of Byways is around on tinternet suitable for the TomTom?

None that I've seen (and I've been looking!)

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Darren Griffin
PocketGPSWorld - www.PocketGPSWorld.com
The Premier GPS Resource for News, Reviews and Forums


 
On Mon, 24 Apr 2006 13:02:30 +0100, "Andrew Cooke"
<[email protected]> wrote:

>OK so maybe it's wishful thinking but does anyone know if a database of
>Byways is around on tinternet suitable for the TomTom?
>

They've got enough problems with sat-nav gear directing people down
unsurfaced tracks and through fords as it is......

Alex
 
Alex wrote:
> They've got enough problems with sat-nav gear directing people down
> unsurfaced tracks and through fords as it is......
>
> Alex

Hardly TomTom's fault as the issue you refer to affected every nav system
that used TeleAtlas map data. And there is some obligation on the users to
engage their brains before blindly following a nav instruction down an
unsurfaced track!

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Darren Griffin
PocketGPSWorld - www.PocketGPSWorld.com
The Premier GPS Resource for News, Reviews and Forums


 

"Darren Griffin - PocketGPSWorld.Com" <[email protected]> wrote in
message news:[email protected]...
> Alex wrote:
>> They've got enough problems with sat-nav gear directing people down
>> unsurfaced tracks and through fords as it is......
>>
>> Alex
>
> Hardly TomTom's fault as the issue you refer to affected every nav system
> that used TeleAtlas map data. And there is some obligation on the users
> to engage their brains before blindly following a nav instruction down an
> unsurfaced track!

LoL, or the artic that went down a single track country road and got stuck.

On a different note, are police radar traps(parked in a side road with radar
gun out of the window)required as part of the speed camera database?
--
Jon


 
Andrew Cooke wrote:
> OK so maybe it's wishful thinking but does anyone know if a database of
> Byways is around on tinternet suitable for the TomTom?
>
>

I've played around in the past with the output of the Wayfinder Client
(you need to be a GLASS member to access Wayfinder), it's in RXF format
which you can import to Memory Map, then export as CSV, grep out only
the waypoints, then feed it through GPSBabel and voila. Bit messy but
it works. The only problem is the coordinates in Wayfinder aren't that
accurate in the first place, so poor data in, poor data out. They're
good enough to get you in the general location though.

Regards,

Dave.
 
jOn wrote:
> On a different note, are police radar traps(parked in a side road
> with radar gun out of the window)required as part of the speed camera
> database?

If you mean do we log them, then yes, information gratefully received :)

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Darren Griffin
PocketGPSWorld - www.PocketGPSWorld.com
The Premier GPS Resource for News, Reviews and Forums


 

"Dave Gibbs" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> Andrew Cooke wrote:
>> OK so maybe it's wishful thinking but does anyone know if a database of
>> Byways is around on tinternet suitable for the TomTom?
>
> I've played around in the past with the output of the Wayfinder Client
> (you need to be a GLASS member to access Wayfinder), it's in RXF format
> which you can import to Memory Map, then export as CSV, grep out only the
> waypoints, then feed it through GPSBabel and voila. Bit messy but it
> works. The only problem is the coordinates in Wayfinder aren't that
> accurate in the first place, so poor data in, poor data out. They're good
> enough to get you in the general location though.
>
> Regards,
>
> Dave.
Nortern greenlanes gives out their routes in gps format, though I have never
used them ( still in the dark ages with enormous papery os thingys)

Icky:)


 
comind back from weston last year i set satnav to 'short distance' it took me down some pretty narrow lanes and farmers fields... id got a caravan on the back and some of the lanes were just wide enuff... soon set back to 'fast' if id have carried on i reckon id av found some decent lanes :D
 
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