We purchased a decent TomTom GPS. Why is TomTom charging when they promised free maps from the community?
You need to understand the difference between buying a map and getting free mapshare map corrections. TomTom is releasing new maps about 4 times a year now. A small number of tomtom units, mostly GO 920’s, have the promotion code for free maps for one year. But most just have the latest map guarantee, which allows you to update your pre-installed map to the newest map available, within the first 30 days. After the one year or 30 days, the new map versions would not be free. For each map version that is released, mapshare map corrections are always free. Mapshare is the service that allows users to report corrections and download corrections that other users have reported. The map will stop getting those corrections one year after it was released. Certain corrections like missing streets will probably not ever come through mapshare. Hope that clarifies it. Feel free to e-mail me.
