I'm about to go Florida on holiday; as we'll have a hire car I thought
it would be useful to take my TomTom 910 along. However, I find it will
cost me 35 GBP to buy the necessary map, which I'd want to use for a few
drives over a total of less than two weeks, then I'd delete it. At that
price, I'll not bother thanks, I'll just rely on a paper map.

Presumably I'm not missing a trick anywhere here, am I? There's no way
of getting a US map for a short period of time is there, or from a
non-TomTom source?

Seems a bit of a mad strategy for TomTom to be charging Brits almost the
same sum to buy a US map they'll probably only ever use for a couple of
weeks, compared to the UK map they'll maybe use every day at home for
several years. Maybe they reckon 35 quid on top of a US holiday won't
be noticed - but it will here I'm afraid!

David

On Sat, 04 Apr 2009 20:11:43 +0100,Lobster wrote:

> I'm about to go Florida on holiday; as we'll have a hire car I thought
> it would be useful to take my TomTom 910 along. However, I find it will
> cost me 35 GBP to buy the necessary map, which I'd want to use for a few
> drives over a total of less than two weeks, then I'd delete it. At that
> price, I'll not bother thanks, I'll just rely on a paper map.
>
> Presumably I'm not missing a trick anywhere here, am I? There's no way
> of getting a US map for a short period of time is there, or from a
> non-TomTom source?
>

There is the FREE Tiger map donated by US army. works on a Garmin, with
the Groundtruth software.

On a win/linux/mac os x or win ce comp/device you can install apps like
gosmore or navit, and download the US maps for FREE.
(unfortunately, as I would want navit on tomtom linux:
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Opentom/links/ )

The strange thing is: maps are no longer a business to earn money (except
for pc dealers that can install apps/maps...)

eg this package:
http://gpspassion.com/forumsen/topic...OPIC_ID=126303





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