Sat Nav with live traffic and speed camera data

**Joe Black** · 30 November 2006, 19:23

And I thought this was a 5 star topic!

**DimPrawn** · 30 November 2006, 20:56

It was for me!

**DaveB** · 30 November 2006, 22:15

Originally posted by DimPrawn

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traffic_Message_Channel

Any others (e.g. Does Tom Tom have live re-routing when a traffic jam occurs without downloading costly data via GPRS or similar)?

TomTom relies on you subscribing to an update service and having GPRS available to update the information, not worth it IMHO.

TBH all I do is have TP turned on on the radio and listen for traffic warnings. If the route I'm taking looks like it will be held up I use the SatNav to route around that particular stretch. It's one of my favorite features on TomTom.

**dmini** · 4 December 2006, 12:55

My medion does TMC - free for life. Reroutes nicely, up to date from RAC.
Got ability to download the speed camera stuff I think- but haven't yet
Worked at the AA for a spell - one of the guys there had the AA software &kept having to reboot his device (PDA) He phoned up to complain & was told - that is the way it is - reboots are acceptable (even in the middle of your journey)

**Mustang** · 5 December 2006, 14:08

Originally posted by DaveB

If the route I'm taking looks like it will be held up I use the SatNav to route around that particular stretch. It's one of my favorite features on TomTom.

Sounds like a useful feature - need to tell Garmin to include it the model I have!!

**DimPrawn** · 11 December 2006, 07:21

I can't seem to find one single sat nav product that does the following.

1. Good basic navigation inc full postcode
2. Free traffic updates and auto-reroute via TMC
3. Hands free phone via bluetooth
4. Speed cameras

Crazy.

**Sockpuppet** · 11 December 2006, 09:49

Speed cameras are easy. www.pocketgps.co.uk download the ov2 files (tomtom) or csv files (any other gps) and your sorted for the speed cameras.

**DaveB** · 11 December 2006, 10:23

Originally posted by DimPrawn

I can't seem to find one single sat nav product that does the following.

1. Good basic navigation inc full postcode
2. Free traffic updates and auto-reroute via TMC
3. Hands free phone via bluetooth
4. Speed cameras

Crazy.

It's the free bit you are going to struggle with. Everything else is doable.

**DimPrawn** · 11 December 2006, 10:32

Both the AA navigator unit and Navman N60i do free traffic updates via the TMC forever (I think there is a one off joining fee).

TomTom use pointless and expensive GPRS I think?

But then the others don't do Bluetooth hands free....

Sat Nav with live traffic and speed camera data