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What is TomTom Map Share™?

TomTom Map Share is a unique technology that enables you to add to, update and personalize your maps instantly. It also lets you share and benefit from other users’ changes - daily, automatically and easily via TomTom HOME. TomTom Map Share technology means TomTom drivers can always have the most up-to-date maps at their fingertips.

Every quarter, TomTom releases the latest maps from the world’s leading map suppliers. This ensures you get the most up-to-date and reliable map whenever you buy a TomTom device or a new map. But because we live in such a dynamic world, the pace of road network changes may even be ahead of the latest map release. That’s why TomTom now enables its users to add changes to their maps.

With the revolutionary Map Share technology, TomTom users can make instant corrections to their own map and receive corrections from the entire TomTom Map Share community for at least 12 months – all for free. And by regularly replacing your map with the latest release, you’ll be able to continue to keep your map up to date with your own improvements and with help from the TomTom community.

TomTom Map Share™ requirements

All devices that are compatible with TomTom HOME support Map Share downloadable map corrections. For a list of compatible devices, click here.

TomTom Map Share™ community

The first time you enter the map corrections menu on your TomTom device, you will be asked to join the TomTom Map Share community. Membership is free of charge, as its sole purpose is to allow every TomTom user to instantly receive map corrections made by others 1.

If you decide to join the TomTom Map Share community and to share your corrections with others (recommended), then your corrections will be uploaded to us every time you connect your device to TomTom HOME. At the same time, corrections made and reported by other TomTom users are sent to your device after they have been verified.

You have a number of options available on your TomTom device to decide what sort of map corrections you would like to receive. We take great care that the map corrections you receive are correct.

To increase the sources from which you will accept map corrections, move the bottom slider to the right.

 

    For each map, we generate and update a database of map corrections for up to one year. After one year, this database will no longer be updated with new map corrections, but can still be downloaded by anyone using that map version. In order to continue receiving new map corrections you will be asked to purchase a new map version which already contains the corrections reported by you and other users previously, as well as the changes made by the map provider.
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