http://www.gpsreview.net/tomtom-iq-routes/ GPS Reviews for Garmin, Magellan, TomTom, and other GPS Systems Sat, 21 Nov 2009 02:27:52 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 http://www.gpsreview.net/tomtom-iq-routes/#comment-67780 Rip Mon, 10 Aug 2009 03:45:26 +0000 http://www.gpsreview.net/tomtom-iq-routes/#comment-67780 I didn't fully understand or appreciate IQ Routes until my family visited Six Flags America this weekend. When planning my itinerary of the trip the night before leaving, IQ Routes estimated the 31 mile trip to take approximately 51 minutes. I looked at the route summary to get an idea of the route we would travel, and promptly it. We left about 12:30pm the following day. After traveling 20 minutes toward our destination, I noticed the route we were traveling was different from the route summarized the night before. I thought I might have mistakenly selected the wrong destination somehow, so I quickly accessed TomTom's route summary again and confirmed that we were indeed headed toward Six Flags as planned. On the way home, though, instead of routing us BACK the way we came (the interstate), we were routed through the local business district and picked up the interstate the last 20 minutes or so of our journey. Thinking back on the last time we visited Six Flags, THIS was the route we traveled by getting directions via GOOGLE. It's definitely a shorter route, but I vaguely remember the stop and go traffic we previously encountered while driving through that heavily congested area. What's notable is, THIS was the route IQ Routes planned the previous night, but it's quite obvious NOW that travel time through a business district is a lot different at night than it would be mid-day. Fortunately, we were able to avoid that congestion through the technical efficiency of IQ Routes. I didn’t fully understand or appreciate IQ Routes until my family visited Six Flags America this weekend. When planning my itinerary of the trip the night before leaving, IQ Routes estimated the 31 mile trip to take approximately 51 minutes. I looked at the route summary to get an idea of the route we would travel, and promptly it. We left about 12:30pm the following day. After traveling 20 minutes toward our destination, I noticed the route we were traveling was different from the route summarized the night before. I thought I might have mistakenly selected the wrong destination somehow, so I quickly accessed TomTom’s route summary again and confirmed that we were indeed headed toward Six Flags as planned. On the way home, though, instead of routing us BACK the way we came (the interstate), we were routed through the local business district and picked up the interstate the last 20 minutes or so of our journey. Thinking back on the last time we visited Six Flags, THIS was the route we traveled by getting directions via GOOGLE. It’s definitely a shorter route, but I vaguely remember the stop and go traffic we previously encountered while driving through that heavily congested area. What’s notable is, THIS was the route IQ Routes planned the previous night, but it’s quite obvious NOW that travel time through a business district is a lot different at night than it would be mid-day. Fortunately, we were able to avoid that congestion through the technical efficiency of IQ Routes.

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