TomTom acquires PocketGPSWorld Points Of Interest Database

MaFt · Posted: Sun Apr 01, 2012 1:10 pm Post subject:

...and, just to add, that the mention in the Newsletter about some news on POIs IS a real thing. It's still work in progress but we hope to be able to announce something soon.

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Andy_P · Posted: Sun Apr 01, 2012 3:10 pm Post subject:

VERY well done Darren!

Sometimes the ones you think are too obvious can get the best results.

... and there's NO way I'm admitting if you "got" me Embarassed

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JimmyTheHand · Frequent Visitor Joined: Apr 16, 2005 Posts: 386

similarly Google has been trying a new Map provider - Link
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Barsnake · Posted: Sun Apr 01, 2012 6:58 pm Post subject:

Very good !!!!
Got me big style,
but then again I thought it was still March!
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gem · Posted: Sun Apr 01, 2012 7:06 pm Post subject: nice one

You got me there!

I was a touch annoyed but just thought, ohh well, another good thing becomes chargeable.

Nice April Fool.

Guivre46 · Posted: Sun Apr 01, 2012 10:43 pm Post subject:

My first thought was that PGPSW had develpoed a death-wish. But business is business. Then I saw the other posts. Stop it!

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DeLorean · Posted: Mon Apr 02, 2012 11:49 am Post subject:

Very clever!
I was all geared up for a heated rant ;)
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aerotec · Posted: Mon Apr 02, 2012 7:25 pm Post subject:

Ha ha ha! I just read this and also thought you were selling us all out to the devil! And I was here to show my Dad how to download some POIs so we were real p****d that it was sold to TomTom!

This is the only April Fool that got me, and it isn't even April Fools Day anymore!

tomtom_shareholder · Regular Visitor Joined: Apr 08, 2011 Posts: 64

Check:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yv2dUJJwYGw&feature=player_embedded

Tom59 · Posted: Tue Apr 03, 2012 4:03 am Post subject:

I couldn't believe it. I thought "The number of POI's that I sent that lot, just for it to be sold" Laughing Out Loud

Well done Darren and MaFt.......who's idea WAS it?
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MaFt · Posted: Tue Apr 03, 2012 9:21 am Post subject:

I'll take the blame/credit for the idea, but the excellent wording was by Darren Very Happy

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M8TJT · Posted: Tue Apr 03, 2012 10:25 am Post subject:

bmuskett · Posted: Tue Apr 03, 2012 12:02 pm Post subject:

April Fools Day is gone so don't you think it's time to take it off the front page, or at least mark it as an April Fools joke?

Guivre46 · Posted: Tue Apr 03, 2012 2:39 pm Post subject:

Oh yes, I was caught by an out of date April Fool a few years back. People very kindly let me realise for myself that I was a complete **a**.
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gekko · Occasional Visitor Joined: Sep 01, 2005 Posts: 25

This one was a joke, but I fail to see the difference between this joke and what was done to the speed cam database a few years ago. Wasn't it in essense the same thing, user supplied data was suddenly subject to subscription/cost?

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