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[benw]

The other week I was running out of petrol so I dialled up a local petrol station on TomTom and drove to it. It took me to the middle of a housing estate and the house that according to TomTom was a petrol station had clearly been there for at least 60 years. So I found another one on TomTom, navigated to that and found myself at a military storage yard somewhere near Bedford. This is not the first time TomTom POI has let me down. In fact, I'm struggling to think of a time that it has ever worked properly. I seriously think they just randomly pepper the map with POI so that they can say (TomTom has x thousand petrol stations stored in it). I have tried downloading custom POI from various places on the internet but they are a bit hit an miss. Some companies, like Screwfix for example, make their POI list downloadable from their website and it works really well. In other cases the POI will have been created by a spotty teenager in his bedroom using a list of postcodes which takes you to roughly somewhere within five miles of the place you're looking for. Does anyone know of a reliable source of good POI for TomTom? Failing that, a reliable POI file for petrol stations, cash machines, car parks, supermarkets etc?

[techieboy]

I've never had a problem with the built-in TomTom POI's for petrol stations (different matter when it comes to speed cameras ). But, I do much prefer the more comprehensive versions from PocketGPSWorld - especially having petrol station POI's split by brand. Always nicer to be able to easily find a Shell station over a Murco, or similar.

[spuk87]

I've never had a problem with the built-in TomTom POI's for petrol stations (different matter when it comes to speed cameras ). But, I do much prefer the more comprehensive versions from PocketGPSWorld - especially having petrol station POI's split by brand. Always nicer to be able to easily find a Shell station over a Murco, or similar.

I'd agree about getting specific brands. Use TomTom home, there are poi's for BP, Shell, Tesco petrol, Morrisons petrol, ASDA maybe, Jet, Texaco etc. They seem to be more accurate IMO. I get the feeling that the petrol station poi that you're using (the standard TomTom one) is a bit simple and only directs to the postcode of the petrol station, I've had this happen before and kept driving to find the station was about 400 yards away

[Zoobeef]

I use shells POI as i use v-power and its not let me down yet