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Pimp my ride: TomTom GPS auto navigation system includes Guam driving maps?

A local blogger commented on how his co-worker's been rockin' a new TomTom GPS portable navigation device, which....wait for it....ships with detailed driving maps already built-in for Guam!  This would be the first, in my experience as a tech journalist, digital device that ever took my hometown into consideration.  Neat!

You'll recall that GPS auto systems were one of the several consumer tech devices I mentioned in a past podcast that I'd most like to start working with, if only they were available out here.

I may have to do the "in-kind donation for use in a tech review" thing and try to get one of these for my company to hammer out and test.  I can't imagine that it would have much in the way of traffic reports, and weather's a non-necessity (it is raining or sunny?), but it's cool to see someone out there's showing us some love here in TechnicalNeverNeverLand.

 

Published Aug 04 2005, 11:25 PM by guam-aspdev
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Steve Hall said:

Yeah...I work for the company that supplies the street map data to TomTom. Guam is included to be "complete" about the USA; including it's provinces (the other one is Puerto Rico). My product manager (who has a real Geography degree) figured it would help SOMEONE sooner or later! (And curiously, Guam is something I always look at visually while converting our base data format into four other formats.)

Get your hands on one and post a review about both the software and the data accuracy. Just remember to report any gross (or even minor) data errors you find to TomTom so they can get passed on to us so that they're fixed in future data builds. (Most vendors like TomTom have some sort of data update process for customers. Whether or not they charge for replacement data, I don't know...)
August 4, 2005 9:02 AM
 

Jason Salas said:

Hi Steve! Thanks for the feedback....that's great news. I talked about your company, about TomTom, and about consumer tech today on my podcast: http://weblogs.asp.net/jasonsalas/archive/2005/08/05/421631.aspx
August 4, 2005 8:56 PM

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