[gps-talkusers] Re: UK POIS
- From: "Carol Pearson" <carol.pearson29@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <gps-talkusers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 7 Aug 2009 16:01:30 +0100
Steve,
I am worried too, though I don't have the inclination to look into things as
some are ...
I submitted changes to TelAtlas last year also but it seems they get nowhere!
They just seem to sort of do the job! I'm not too pleased either.
--
Carol
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---- Original Message ----
From: Steven Bingham
To: gps-talkusers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Thursday, August 06, 2009 10:24 PM
Subject: [gps-talkusers] UK POIS
> Hi all
>
> The more I look at the UK POIs the more I worry about
> them!
>
> I have been comparing notes with my wife's Tomtom and she
> is using the maps that equate to Sendero version 5. Just
> looking at our local area I have discovered that a large
> number of POIs are wrongly positioned. We have two
> streets named Prospect Street in Reading and all the POIs
> relevant to Prospect Street, Caversham, Reading
> , have been moved to Prospect Street, Reading. Their
> postodes are totally wrong and their details show the
> correct addresses but someone has changed their
> Long/Lats.
>
> We looked at Places of Worship in more detail. We found 8
> withn 13.2 miles. None of them were Christian. All the
> churches have disappeared in the current maps. We have
> got everything else from synagogues to yoga centres.
>
> I'm not sure what to do about it. There does not seem to
> be any scope for general complaints on the TelAtlas site.
> The usage that these maps get should mean that they are
> self-correcting but I don't think many people no how to,
> or can be bothered to, submit corrections. I am also
> uncertain that TelAtlas take any notice of correction
> that are submitted. I submitted a number of corrections
> last year but none of them appears to have been actioned.
>
> Steve
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