Comments on: TomTom One First Impression

By: Troy

Troy — Tue, 19 Dec 2006 19:08:03 +0000

Indeed…it will get you to places you already know…but it will annoy you because you probably know a better way. In subsequent tests, I’ve found that in calculating the “fastest” route it seems to only really factor in distance and posted speed limit and not lights. I don’t expect it to know the location of every single light, but it seems reasonable that it could know that a section of roadway has lights.

So going to Peddler’s Village, it sent me up 202 which is definitely slower than the turnpike once you factor in lights.

Of course if you don’t know where you’re going, then as long as you get where you need to go (and hopefully on-time) I guess it doesn’t matter too much if there may actually have been a better route.

Letterboxing also sounds interesting. Sometime next year I’ll try and roust up some people to do either or both.

By: Mike

Mike — Sun, 17 Dec 2006 23:09:50 +0000

Glad you like your toy and glad I could help. Geocaching would be fun. There are apparently places very near to us.

Happy Navigating!

By: Larry

Larry — Fri, 15 Dec 2006 00:07:24 +0000

So, it sounds like TomTom was successful at getting you places you already knew how to get to, provided you didn’t believe it the first time? Wow, I’m impressed.

And I’ve always wanted to try letterboxing, but have limited interest in geocaching.