Tomtom Traffic question

[Resonance]

Hi, my girlfriend had just bought me a tomtom 3 bluetooth for my Xda2 for christmas and i was looking to sign up for the traffic updates too but wanted to know if its any good?? I have seen that the service for 1 year is 29 euros between 1st - 31st of december. I also know it downloads traffic updated from my gprs connection, how much data does it download?? prob would be no point of i had to spend loads on a big data tariff. :?:

Cheers in advnace

Ste

[edsub]

do check http://www.pocketgps.co.uk/ on this

[koponet]

TomToms does not send any information about route location or route to the traffic server. So, it will download all Traffic information for the map that you currently using.

For the german map, a typical download (~ 200 messages) is 5k (>1k sent, 4k received).

Some screenshots are here:
http://www.mathiaspohl.de/dx/tt-traffic

regards, Mathias

[Resonance]

Thanks for the advice, so if i got a 5mb per month data tariff that should cover it (as i use gprs for the web and stuff)

Thanks

[griffog]

Yes that would be plenty. FWIW the quality of data has much improved in recent months and it is extremely useful if you spend much time on our congested roads.