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Big error on my new Tomtom

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Although I have Myway satnav in my C5, I prefer using my old Tomtom. Recently, because the maps can no longer be updated, I changed it for a new Go620. Yesterday I had it programmed to take me south down the A3 to the M25 then along to the M3. A mile before the M25, Tomtom began warning me to keep to the left lane for the slip road. Then as I approached the roundabout I was given the instruction to join the M25 following the signs for Gatwick Airport. At the roundabout a huge sign for Gatwick indicated the first exit. Living locally, I realized the error and instead took third exit "following the signs for Heathrow". But for the stranger who blindly followed Tomtom's instruction, they would have had a journey of 16 miles before being able to "Turn around when possible".

Wonder if they will react to my Mapshare report?. :)
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JohnD wrote: 20 Jun 2018, 10:21 Wonder if they will react to my Mapshare report?. :)

Unlikely, After having it correct for several years, they decided that the street we live on in France is a one way street (which it never has been), I have sent corrections at every map update for the past 2 years, but no change.

Tomtom in my experience is a soul-less company which makes arbitrary changes to product features (usually removal) during updates and their software has in almost all respects regressed in the 10 years that I have been using it. It is almost impossible to get meaningful responses from their technical support beyond a general instruction to reset the device and try again.
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I second that ^
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Mine sends 'Spence Lane' traffic through my garden, there was a right of way through there about 50 years ago.

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Maybe there still is!
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Track isn't there anymore it was destroyed when we had the hurricane in 1970 something.

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Peter.N. wrote: 20 Jun 2018, 23:20 Track isn't there anymore it was destroyed when we had the hurricane in 1970 something.

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That doesn't mean the right of way has gone Peter, you could find some bolshie rambler group trying to force you to re-open it. :-D
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Post by Peter.N. »

Ah well its a bridle path anyway so we get our fair share of passers by but there is a stables at the bottom of the track and we know them. I think it has been removed on some sat navs now. We do get walkers up here but we don't mind unless they pick all our blackberries!

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