JakeRich
USA
62 Posts
Posted - 07/30/2003 : 00:07:26
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Yes, I`ve read that article about the source of map data. As a professional navigator for twenty years, I know that maps are never perfect, whether digital or paper. The problem for TomTom is that TeleAtlas has really poor map data, even in the metropolitan Washington, DC area, and from other reports, in other urban areas in the US. I could understand questionable map quality if it were in the most rural parts of Appalachia, or in the middle of the Southwest desert where not many people live and surveys are only done infrequently, but it`s the metro area within 25 miles of the center of the Nation`s Capital, for goodness sake! The paper map publishers manage to update the printed maps every year with new highways and roads, why can`t TeleAtlas update their data?And when mapping errors get so bad that your suggested route avoids an interstate and includes 25+ lights on a city street, or an illegal U turn across a major divided highway, I think that`s not acceptable performance for a routing product. TomTom USA is a brilliant piece of software that is suffering under the burden of really poor data. I would dearly love to see TomTom get a better database or TeleAtlas get their ducks in a row on this. Right now TeleAtlas is not helping TomTom succeed.
http://www.gpspassion.com/forumsen/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=2527&w…
Warum ist in den USA für TA nichts zu holen ? Wegen des Marktes wie immer behauptet wird oder weil andere einfach besser sind ? Das ist nur ein Beispiel. Der Trend der mangelhaften Datenqualität geht duch fast alle Foren, egal ob Europa oder USA Aufwachen !
