Seems to be different coverage for differing models. Which box did you say you have? bones bones@xxxxxxx -----Original Message----- From: jhb-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jhb-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Gerry Winskill Sent: 11 July 2009 12:42 To: jhb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [jhb] Re: Tom Tom My Tom Tom has complete coverage of IOM roads. It even indicates openings into farm fields; not as the way to go! Gerry Winskill Fossil wrote: > The added point about satnav is that there isn't any road coverage in the > Isle of Man anyway so if you come over here you are back to maps.. > > I do have a satnav of sorts as I use Memory Map in the car. Loaded with the > OS maps it provides good street coverage with no whining voice to tell you > where to go. Mostly I know my way around anyway but can easily get lost > around the estates in Douglas or Onchan. When rallies or races are on I use > it to route through the back streets and minimise detours. > > bones > bones@xxxxxxx > > > -----Original Message----- > From: jhb-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jhb-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf > Of Peter Dodds > Sent: 11 July 2009 10:58 > To: jhb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Cc: pdodds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: [jhb] Re: Tom Tom > > If I lived there I probably wouldn't! I particularly like Ireland for > it's detachment from the ratrace outside Dublin, and my assumption is > that IoM is similar. > > I wanted to retire to Ireland, but I got married again instead. :-| > > Peter > > >> *From:* "Fossil" <fossil@xxxxxxx> >> *To:* <jhb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> >> *Date:* Fri, 10 Jul 2009 19:21:30 +0100 >> >> You assume we never take our cars over to the UK or Europe... >> >> bones >> bones@xxxxxxx >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: jhb-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jhb-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On >> Behalf >> Of Peter Dodds >> Sent: 10 July 2009 16:16 >> To: jhb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx >> Cc: pdodds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx >> Subject: [jhb] Re: Tom Tom >> >> I am intrigued why, on an island half the size of London, with less >> than >> 100th the population, and just 4 towns, 4 villages and 16 parishes, >> you >> need a Tom Tom. Now if it was Ireland... >> >> I was in Tipperary last week and got lost within 5 miles of my >> friends' >> house - and that was after having stayed there for 3 days. >> >> (Runs hastily in retreat from invasion of Chester by 24,693 Manxmen >> between the ages of 14 and 65) >> >> Peter >> >> >> > > >