We're off on our holidays to France next Friday and I'm trying to update our TomTom with a french map. I didn't realise they were expensive things - they want to charge me £20 for the priviledge. As I can be tighter than Bruce Lee's pants at the start of Enter the Dragon, I was looking for a jimmed alternative. Does anyone know of the best place to get an update?

In case it's a relevant point, my TomTom's a 'Start 50'  - I have no idea if there are different maps for different devices. :/

Start on this forum - http://www.navitotal.com

Cheers - so fastactivate is essentially a crack for the tomtom allowing you to shoehorn extras in.

I think so. I tried it with my parents really old TomTom but kept getting the wrong versions of the software, and the downloads were taking forever so I gave up eventually. But it looks like it should work if you RTFM.

Arse biscuits.

According to this page on that site, mine's a non-browsable device. :C

I'd hazard that they're locking them down more to stop us enterprising types from getting freebies.

Phone with Google maps?

What kos said, or waze. If you've got free data roaming.

Though doesn't Google maps let you cache an offline area and it now offers navigation? Just no traffic updates

Three do a 1 month contract for 20 quid with unlimited data, and I think France is included in free roaming. 20 quid for all your data needs plus maps is decent, I reckon.

Used to be £12.90 :@

But yeah, roaming on three when abroad is great

Aye, and a night in the pub, a film and a bag of chips on the way home used to leave Manthorp with change from 5 Bob.

Yep, that's the backup plan!

I've got an old phone I could repurpose for the trip.

Cheers guys.

Or phone with Navmii. Free world maps that you can download.


 

£5, no data signal needed, battery life ... depends how hard you hit... :)

I tried a Mapedy app "Map of Canada" and downloaded free maps of Ontario & Quebec. It actually works pretty good in remote areas such as Bon Echo Provincial Park where we just spent a couple of days. Doesn't need wifi either.

Sounds good, I'll check out their French offerings.

Yep, looks pretty good, though I've not yet found a way to set somewhere other than where you are as a starting point, but not a huge problem.

Thanks for the recommendation. :)

Yeah I haven't tried to do anything with it, it just seems to handle offline map browsing pretty well.

Didn't like Navmii then?
 

Googley Maps does that. You can pick the area you want it to download to use offline. Used it while on holiday in Tenerife and it worked great.

Ahem, I read your post and totally forgot about it.  :-$

I came back to the thread yesterday and didn't reread the whole thing. I'll have a look at that tonight amid all the last minute packing.  :-/