All is not what it seems to be - read on! If you want to try and get something for nothing - then at least read what we have to say. As experts in this area we have a good deal of experience and may save you wasting your time and your money. Best Free Maps for tomtom satnav's People often ask us about where they can download free tomtom maps, for their satnav.

Single Map Download. Map Update Service (1 year). Latest Map + 4 updates*. Map Update Service (1.5 years). Latest Map + 6 updates**. Covers up to 21 countries in Eastern Europe; Includes thousands of restaurants, hotels, and other Points of Interest; Includes local speed limits. Getting map updates for your TomTom can be a bit of a pain. Arguably, the most annoying part of the update process is paying for new map updates.

They have a forthcoming holiday in Europe, or are going to a new area of the UK camping, travelling or touring. They have found perhaps that they are driving through' fields' because the roads are not on their maps. Perhaps also they travel for work and need to locate newer postcode areas, or find locations like B&Q, Homebase, Tesco, Sainsbury, Esso, ASDA or any other major retailer. We accept that you may need some new maps, however before you start looking all over the internet and involve yourself in a lot of time and effort - we suggest you glance through this short and helpful article. Where can I get updates for free tomtom maps? Lets explain one thing from the start: There is no such thing as a 'free map'. Creating and updating maps takes a lot of people and an awful lot of time!

There are just two major map suppliers - TeleAtlas and Navteq and they have massive teams of people working on this. Drivers on all the major roads of Europe, people at computers assembling and adding changes - its a huge industry. Here at Landis Media, we employ 5 people just to update the location and POI information which we supply. By the way our useful.

However - maps are so much more complicated than locations. That's because you have a lot of points to make up just one section of road.

Why are tomtoms maps on SD cards so expensive? Maps are now extremely closely linked with satnav's that they are almost inseparable now. A few year ago - tomtom tried to make a move and take the business 'high ground'. In a bid to guarantee their future (in the satnav market) they tried to buy up (for a world beating 2 billion) the main map maker - TeleAtlas. Arch rivals to tomtom - Garmin fired back with an anti-monopoly lawsuit to derail the whole thing! Corporate war is not a nice sport and this went around the houses.

It does show that maps are the key component to a satnav and as such nobody - tomtom nor garmin will be giving them away. That's why its appears to be almost as expensive to update your old satnav maps as to buy a new satnav. Its a deliberate ploy on behalf of satnav manufacturers.

See our comments on this development later in this article. The only 'free map' is a 'stolen map' This means that the only place to get a 'free map' is to 'steal a map'. Paragon Ntfs Serial V1420 here. Nobody likes to think of themselves as a thief, but copying occupies a “grey area” on most peoples moral compass. They don’t for example see copying a CD as the same as mugging an old lady for her purse!

Because of this, we are divorced from the act of “theft” and that’s why “hackers” or as I like to call them – “thieves” do what is termed in criminal jargon as the “heavy lifting”. They get the maps, crack them, copy them and distribute them on the Internet – so we can all use them! Turn your tomtom into an ordinary 'house brick'! Love Hina Episode 7 Download.