whisturx Posted January 17, 2011 Share Posted January 17, 2011 Just bought a TomTom XXL as a replacement for an older model. I am being offered a free upgrade to a reduced area of the European maps and would pick Western Europe which include the countries I travel through most. I have cleared some space by deleting most of the voices as Serbo-Croat and Latvian are not my second languages !! It appears that Western Europe will fit. I seem to remember horror stories of downloading updated maps to TomTom and ending up after many hours with a blank screen ! I have backed up the existing maps etc. to my computer hard drive as security. So is it safer to stay with the existing maps which seem to be fairly current showing a recent new roundabout near here, or try for an upgrade ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony Jones Posted January 17, 2011 Share Posted January 17, 2011 Depends how much you use it Ian, and how frustrating you find the occasional out-of-date bits. I'm still using the W Eur map which came with my "TT One XL" nearly three years ago. I did buy a new "W & Central Europe" map for our 2009 tour, and put it on an SD card, but after that trip I found it skimped on UK detail - it only recognised the first half of UK postcodes, not the exact locations. So I popped it out and reverted to the older, original map. Call me a cheapskate, but I've not found any serious problem with a 3-yr old map so far! Still, I do plan to buy an update for our trip to France and Spain at Easter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
euroserv Posted January 17, 2011 Share Posted January 17, 2011 I wonder if my next Tom Tom update will list the major potholes on British roads. Many I have seen in the midlands are large enough to qualify as 'Points Of Interest'! Nick Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
duetto owner Posted January 17, 2011 Share Posted January 17, 2011 still on original tomtom 700 map database from about 5-6 years ago seems ok still map wise. but the battery no longer holds the charge. tried a cheeky free map update once but it never worked tried using the googlemaps nav on the htc smartphone but that keeps changing from sat nav to street view without warning and is a pain to use, wish it had an option to turn street view off. still using the tomtom prefer to the smartphone. i would leave your free update from tomtom till the latest option date Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hallii Posted January 18, 2011 Share Posted January 18, 2011 I have just updated my Tomtom XL maps, £39.99. If you use Tomtoms "Home" software it will do it for you, and load pois from your computer into the satnav, (you have to download them first, of course). Be aware that when the message in the email you will receive for download tells you there is not enough memory for all the maps you have just paid for, you just click "continue" and then select the countries you want. The rest is automatic. Why don't they tell you about this BEFORE you pay for the new more complicated and memory hungry update? Why do an update map that they know wont fit on the model they sell it for? Oh! and don't delete your old maps thinking that it will help, it does not, you then have to reload them from your backup (you DID do a back didn't you?) which takes 40 minutes. H Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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