I had reason to call the people at TomTom today to ask why they didn’t have the facility for businesses to add their details to the TomTom POI database. I can navigate to a POI on route with my tomtom 910 and it has all macdonalds restaurants already included out of the box so it seemed reasonable to assume that there was a mechanism in place for people to submit their business details to TomTom so it would be included in everyone’s TomTom software (when it gets updated).

The guy at TomTom said it was a good idea and will pass it on to the marketing department. I know that there are 3rd party POI lists out there but you need to actually download and install them yourself but I think that it would a good (and maybe profitable) thing for TomTom to have a constantly updating business POI list for restaurants, hotels and bars etc that are included in all new products and updates.

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