TomTom Route Planner Review

Mon, Dec 15, 2008

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TomTom Route Planner Review

Here at TomTom Deals, we’ve spent the day taking a look at the new TomTom Online Route Planner website. Like Google Maps and theaa.com before it, the program is designed to help you plan your journey by simply entering start and end points. However, this planner does so much more.

Firstly, (after you set your start point and destination),you chose the day and time you would like to leave. If it is within the next 30 minutes, you can check the ‘Minimise traffic delays’ box and TomTom will adapt your route to take into account current traffic conditions. Even advanced planned routes should be more accurate with this route planner however, as the system uses TomTom’s IQ Routes. This innovation from the GPS masters, uses the day and time of departure to generate the fastest route based on kegacy traffic information.

Alongside these new additions, the route planner has the classic options – for instance you can view the map, route summary, or full driving directions. You can also set ‘Home location’ and ‘Last destination’, share the mapview and more.

I’m sure people will find quirks and problems just has they have so famously done with Google Maps before now, but try as we might, we just couldn’t trick the system. I’m impressed and will definitely be using it again soon.

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