billythekid

Booked a bit of a last minute trip and I will need my TomTom one. No time to wait for new SD card to come out in the post. Do TT do downloads? Had a look on their site but cant see anything.

BUT they are saying I need TT Home? WTF is this all about. Got 48 hrs to sort it..

image doctor

Not sure if you've ever seen one, but there are these things called maps.

Looks like wiggly lines on paper in a book.

fast bloke

I downloaded map of France from the site a few months ago.

Just had a look

TomTom, portable GPS car navigation systems

You need to have tom tom home 2.1 installed for it to work

OllyK

TomTom home is client software that runs on your PC and manages your maps for you.

billythekid

Cheers guys.


Yeah, and you have clearly not got a clue what its like to drive through white out with no visibility and only having a paper map on your knee... because I have.

image doctor

I forgot that people never managed to get about before the advent of Sat Nav.

Quite how I manage to navigate through Europe for all these years is a complete mystery!

billythekid

In circles I suspect.

alcazar

iTrader: (2)

Same here

A couple of years ago, one of my kids' mates asked if we had sat-nav in our car.

My lad responded, "We don't need it, we've got dad".

Alcazar

Dave1980

for reference you can download tomtom home from TomTom, portable GPS car navigation systems.

plug in the tomtom with your usb and download your map. dont know how much it will cost though.

Dave1980

also forgot to mention that staples keep the maps in stock if there is one near you.

davegtt

Torrents. I downloaded the whole latest set of maps for the whole of Europe for my dad, worked a treat

Dave1980

best to get the originals though as you wont get map updates with downloaded copies.

although they are free though.

dsmith

God yes and we wouldnt want to miss out on the once a decade tom tom update.....or just download fresh ones when they're available.

OllyK

Quite so, personally I think we should all go back to the horse and cart, it was a perfectly acceptable way to get about.

image doctor

I think the fault of Satnavs is people have no idea which way they are going....or understand the lie of the land.

...and sometimes they don't half take you on funny routes.

Personally I have both, although I have to say I like and prefer maps....at least you can see if you are passing an interesting land mark/view/terrain.

Brendan Hughes

How dare you. You're actually promoting crossing the sea? What's wrong with staying in the UK, people did it quite happily for thousands of years before some spoilsport invented a boat and forced contact with those bloody Frogs. Brought nothing but trouble.

Supercue

iTrader: (1)

True we ended up owning two thirds of the planet all because of some clown with a boat

Brendan Hughes

Well not wanting to be too pedantic, but at current state of play we "ended up" losing two thirds of the planet...

...and hosting the other third, if everyone here is to be believed

So I think my point stands

Supercue

iTrader: (1)

Yes but now we are paying the other third to go home

spireite

dpb

Just done a last minute 3 day Normandy excursion -took tom tom , but would have been lost without a paper map also !

Having said that iv a fairly reasonable sense of direction too

billythekid

???

Anyways... the download from TomTom worked perfectly.
We spent lots of time up in the clouds above Nice / Monaco etc - lots of now and ice around
Had a brilliant trip and will be going back this October to sample it in slightly warmer conditions!

dpb

Theyve still got snow in roquebrune ?

or do you mean up in the mountains , isola etc ?