Mastodawn

I somewhat reluctantly installed paid version of #TomTom Go app on #Android (it was on discount, probably as TomTom are on the ropes) I've got a few long drives coming up and #OSM lacks warnings of the average speed cameras on #A12 in #Essex (alas, I have 0 idea how to accurately add them or if you could even get the data from #NationalHighways (presumably it is possible as TomTom has them)

It works fairly well (other than missing route bar on #AndroidAuto which TomTom and Google are struggling to fix) and does pick up my POIs from existing Tomtom cloud.

I'm not sure of the future of the company, they laid off loads of their staff (probably where #MagicEarth, also based in NL is getting their devs from) and their website and update servers barely work. #GNSS #satnav

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Alex@rtnVFRmedia Suffolk UK Aug 11

Got the route bar back on #TomTom Go for #AndroidAuto - After reading multiple forum threads (some with posts in in English, Dutch and German all in the same thread!) - had to sideload Android Auto APK 14.6.652454-release (and then turn off auto-updates so it doesn't get clobbered) and the route bar reappears..

#GNSS #navi #satnav

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Zach 🇮🇱 🇺🇸Aug 25

@vfrmedia When you mentioned update servers not always working, were you referring to #OsmAnd or #MagicEarth? That sounds like a serious issue — can you clarify what exactly you meant?

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Alex@rtnVFRmedia Suffolk UK Aug 25

@demiguru I was referring to the to. Tomtom update servers (and that many engineers from there may have jumped ship for Magicearth)

However it appears Magicearth development has stalled whilst they search for a revenue stream.

OsmAnd works well, but OSM misses some speed camera schemes in my area and possibly also the M25 motorway around London. I will use OsmAnd for some local navigation where it is sometimes more up to date with changes to the map.

Tomtom does have these, as I went on a fairly long road trip at the weekend and all the cameras were alerted just like my old standalone satnav.