Tom Tom go

[bmwtouring]

Hi All,
I enquired through this site about satnav for my April visit to Orlando, only to find they were all booked out. So I decided to treat myself to a TOMTOM Go 300, I also bought a southeast usa map from tomtom for £40. My questions is for all you veteran satnavvers is,

1/ Can POI's databases(points of interest) be transfered between users?
2/ Has anyone got any that they would be willing to share?
3/ Am I being naive in thinking this can be done?
4/ Will the maps show me the major parks, malls and eating places?

HELP appreciated!!!!

[florida4sun]

POI databases can be shared, although not sure what extra you would need. Most parks are on them but I found we had to adjust teh position of just about everyone one. Eating places are on but you will find they are listed all under the same name (i.e. 7 of the same name) so its hard to distwinguish which one you need, so again we had a special trip to make re adjust.

<blockquote id="quote" class="ffs">quote:Originally posted by bmwtouring
Hi All,
I enquired through this site about satnav for my April visit to Orlando, only to find they were all booked out. So I decided to treat myself to a TOMTOM Go 300, I also bought a southeast usa map from tomtom for £40. My questions is for all you veteran satnavvers is,

1/ Can POI's databases(points of interest) be transfered between users?
2/ Has anyone got any to they would be willing to share?
3/ Am I being naive in thinking this can be done?
4/ Will the maps show me the major parks, malls and eating places?

HELP appreciated!!!!
[/quote]

[pieman790]

We used our Tom Tom on our last trip and the parks, Malls and restuarants are already pre-programmed on my system. Dont know what other POI you would require.

[IanW]

Hi Kevin,
I'm looking at buying a TomTom one and wanted a map of just Florida, but on the TomTom site, they only advertise a map of the whole of America at $169. How did you get one for just the south east?
Ian

[bmwtouring]

Try this link
http://www.tomtom.com/plus/services/mds.php

when you scroll down all the maps should be visible, the maps are for download to your computer and are quite large (225MB)luckily I was able to download to pen drive on my works computer (fast 450 kb/sec took 7 minutes)

Please let me know how you get on
Kev

[IanW]

Thanks for that Kevin. I found the map. I was looking at the SD cards before, didn't know about downloading. That will save me £60. Hoping to buy the TomTom One before we go to Florida in May.
Ian

[Emcee]

I am in the process of buying a Tom Tom Go 700. Are these the ones hired out by this site? Are the US maps specially programmed by Martin or John & Roger for the TT available for purchase. If not I do know that Amazon [u]were</u> doing them at what seemed a reasonable price.

Erik

[bmwtouring]

I have have done some digging for info to try to make my own POI's, Google earth, I have found is great for making POI's "points of interest" for my TomTom go. If you put pins on all your favouite places in Florida, save them as *.kml files and get a poi converter program free on the net to convert them to OV2 files and just save the to your florida map on the TOMTOM

[hamish]

Just had a great deal on the TOMTOM GO 910 £288, can,t wait to start using it.

[Mr G]

<blockquote id="quote" class="ffs">quote:Originally posted by IanW
Hi Kevin,
I'm looking at buying a TomTom one and wanted a map of just Florida, but on the TomTom site, they only advertise a map of the whole of America at $169. How did you get one for just the south east?
Ian
[/quote]

Ian you can just purchase the Southern States for about £40. We bought these last year and are great for the Tom Tom. Look on the Tom Tom site. You can download them from their site.