TomTom maps

I see that you can buy extra maps to load into the TomTom

Would I be correct in saying that if I bought a TomTom today it would
come with the latest western European maps (version 7.10 I think)?


I see I can buy a map of areas that are already covered by the European
set, like Italy.

does the separate map have more detail than the map that is included in
the whole set?

Does anyone know how often maps are released, are they released
regularly in order to 'encourage' users to continually update, thus
providing TomTom with more finance?

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Nospam

Yes you can buy extra maps. The limiting factor is how much memory you have
available.

Older units had an SD card slot, so you could simply buy a bigger card (up
to 4Gb).

Newer TT's have onboard memory - so depends on where you buy it as to how
much memory it has.

Latest maps are v7.10. Previous version was v.675.14**

New maps are supposed to include MapShare - so you can correct errors and it
will share the changes
with other uses (& update the TT information for them for free).

They release map updates annually (thereabouts). The updates are fairly
expensive and are usually
well behind what you would find in a street directory.

I suspect that even after TT pay licensing fees, they are making a fair quid
out of updates.

TOMTOM garantees that you can free update your maps to the latest
release within 30 days after buying the tomtom.
I recently bought a GO910 with maps version 6.5. After a call with
tomtom I was able to download the latest maps from their website!

Fr@nk