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    Quote Originally Posted by autopilot View Post
    The funniest yet was last year when TomTom tried to make me turn down a secure gated runway access road at John Lennon airport. Why that was on the map im not sure.

    But after driving past it tomtom softed itself out and rerouted me down the right road. Thats the best thing about sat nav for me, if you take a wrong turn when using a multimap printout you are stuffed.
    I've had it try to turn me down an emergency access road onto the M6 Toll before. For some reason it thinks it's a proper junction. Also it does seem to like the narrow back roads that's for sure, I've just dirven past them before when it tried to direct me down one that was literally a dirt track.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Moby-Dick View Post
    PDA Phone , bluetooth GPS unit and Tomtom 5 does it for me.
    Standard!

    Get the latest speed camera database for TomTom (or pretty much any of the popular navigation programs) from pocketgpsworld.co.uk, get something like the QStarz BT-Q880 GPS receiver (SIRFstar chipset, runs off LiIon battery or car adapter, and has mains charger too), dead fast warm start and doesn't take that long after cold start to pick satellits up - works like a charm with TomTom (just set it up as Other NMEA GPS, Robert's yer mother's brother).

    And it means my old 2i still has a use, so it's happy as well
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