TomTom Maps of Ireland

[Anthony R. Gold]

I'm considering taking a motoring holiday in Ireland and would like to know
if there have been any major improvements in TomTom maps recently. My
current map of "Western and Central Europe" is Tele Atlas v650.1052 and I
wish to know if any later release is a major improvement in detail in the
city of Dublin and in rural Kerry and Cork or just maintenance releases for
subsequent road changes.

Tony

[Des (drop after des to reply)]

Post by Anthony R. Gold
I'm considering taking a motoring holiday in Ireland and would like to know
if there have been any major improvements in TomTom maps recently. My
current map of "Western and Central Europe" is Tele Atlas v650.1052 and I
wish to know if any later release is a major improvement in detail in the
city of Dublin and in rural Kerry and Cork or just maintenance releases for
subsequent road changes.
Tony

Generally speaking Navteq have been better at mapping Ireland. IIRC the
q2 2006 release had pretty much everything...

See - http://www.yournav.com/content/n/162/


From my experience the TeleAtlas maps were less accurate and the
routings seemed strange if not dangerous.

[Anthony R. Gold]

On Sat, 05 Jul 2008 01:21:09 +0100, "Des (drop after des to reply)"

Post by Des (drop after des to reply)

Post by Anthony R. Gold
I'm considering taking a motoring holiday in Ireland and would like to know
if there have been any major improvements in TomTom maps recently. My
current map of "Western and Central Europe" is Tele Atlas v650.1052 and I
wish to know if any later release is a major improvement in detail in the
city of Dublin and in rural Kerry and Cork or just maintenance releases for
subsequent road changes.
Tony

Generally speaking Navteq have been better at mapping Ireland. IIRC the
q2 2006 release had pretty much everything...
See - http://www.yournav.com/content/n/162/
From my experience the TeleAtlas maps were less accurate and the
routings seemed strange if not dangerous.

Many thanks. Do you know which version(s) of TomTom maps include Navteq's
mapping of Ireland.

Tony

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[Darren Griffin]

Post by Anthony R. Gold
I'm considering taking a motoring holiday in Ireland and would like to know
if there have been any major improvements in TomTom maps recently. My
current map of "Western and Central Europe" is Tele Atlas v650.1052 and I
wish to know if any later release is a major improvement in detail in the
city of Dublin and in rural Kerry and Cork or just maintenance releases for
subsequent road changes.

TA's Ireland coverage both NI and Eire has improved a lot in recent
years. Difficult to quantify but certainly looks pretty comprehensive
now, especially urban areas.

[Anthony R. Gold]

On Mon, 7 Jul 2008 08:50:07 +0100, Darren Griffin

Post by Darren Griffin

Post by Anthony R. Gold
I'm considering taking a motoring holiday in Ireland and would like to know
if there have been any major improvements in TomTom maps recently. My
current map of "Western and Central Europe" is Tele Atlas v650.1052 and I
wish to know if any later release is a major improvement in detail in the
city of Dublin and in rural Kerry and Cork or just maintenance releases for
subsequent road changes.

TA's Ireland coverage both NI and Eire has improved a lot in recent
years. Difficult to quantify but certainly looks pretty comprehensive
now, especially urban areas.

Thanks to all for the comments. I decided to proceed and bought the
current UK & RoI map and am well pleased. Certainly the details around
Rosslare ferry port, which will be my port of entry, is vastly improved.

One oddity is that many (most) of the streets in Dublin which are shown by
name on the map are not indexed, so they can not be located with "find" as
say a destination. Is that a known issue?

Another oddity is that I have seen no Product Code. The map works fine and
is not demanding an Activation Code but I am concerned that one day,
perhaps while out on the road, my GO will suddenly demand a code that I
don't possess. Are Product Codes and Activation Codes not used when buying
by download and when installing with Home?

Tony

[Des (drop after des to reply)]

Post by Anthony R. Gold
On Sat, 05 Jul 2008 01:21:09 +0100, "Des (drop after des to reply)"

Post by Des (drop after des to reply)

Post by Anthony R. Gold
I'm considering taking a motoring holiday in Ireland and would like to know
if there have been any major improvements in TomTom maps recently. My
current map of "Western and Central Europe" is Tele Atlas v650.1052 and I
wish to know if any later release is a major improvement in detail in the
city of Dublin and in rural Kerry and Cork or just maintenance releases for
subsequent road changes.
Tony

Generally speaking Navteq have been better at mapping Ireland. IIRC the
q2 2006 release had pretty much everything...
See - http://www.yournav.com/content/n/162/
From my experience the TeleAtlas maps were less accurate and the
routings seemed strange if not dangerous.

Many thanks. Do you know which version(s) of TomTom maps include Navteq's
mapping of Ireland.
Tony

I don't. However if you go to www.boards.ie and select the Gadgets forum
there are old threads there on spotting which TomTom has Navteq and
which hasn't. If I recall it was difficult to tell from the box label.