Tom Tom "Road blocked" - for the next distance not in distance time

The Tom Tom Go has a "Road blocked ahead" feature so I can say Road
Blocked and then click 1 mile. It seems to tell it that the block starts
here and goes on for 1 mile rather than being in 1 mile's time. I think
the latter would be more useful though as you may see signs warning of
roadworks or blockage ahead and want to enter quickly.

There's "Avoid part of route" which can help in some places if you can
identify the bit of road ahead you want to avoid.

In both cases the UI is such that you really need to be the passenger
or if the driver you need to be stuck in the blockage and not moving to
safely use it, so I wonder if that's in the thinking.

- Richard

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Just hit the roadblock thing for 3 miles and drive along the route
until you can turn off. What would be more useful is to be able to
spot problems ahead, turn off a side road and then stop, then tell it
to avoid the roadblock for X miles, however by that time you're not on
that road any more so it'll block the road that you've stopped on ;-)

In older software, you could define "avoid areas" by dragging
rectangles on the map, I found that far more useful most of the time
as you could use it to block off areas of towns as well. No-one seems
to offer that any more.

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On Wed, 30 Jan 2008 18:32:59 +0000, Ian Rawlings


How do you drive along a route that is blocked?

I think you take things too literally!

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On a motorway it would be more useful to be able to say "for the next N
junctions" -- the TomTom knows where you are and how far all the junctions
are, after all.

"Road blocked ahead" only lets you pick distances up to about 5 miles IIRC
-- on a motorway you might well want to say 30 or 50 miles.


It seems only to allow you to exclude whole sections of the route it has
planned -- and if that's a motorway it will exclude ALL 200 miles (or
whatever) of that motorway, rather than letting you exclude it between two
specific points. Not very clever.

Incidentally, My TomTom won't let me specify that it *should* use the M6
Toll road -- it thinks the old M6 will be quicker (which it won't,
especially northbound, except at 3am, trust me) -- it's "Travel Via"
feature doesn't recognize "M6 Toll" as an address. I *can* force it to use
the toll road by using "Travel via" and "point on map" and finding the
toll road on the map and tapping it. I'll have to add Norton Canes
services as a point of interest -- then I'll be able to "Travel Via"
there.

Cheers,
Daniel.