bord atlas rubbish

[syldale]

hi all went to germany for first time took bord atlas stellplatze with us out of 16 site's i put in the tom tom not one was anyway near we could not find 7 of them we stopped at france.belgium.luxemburg as well no problem with the tom tom our first site in germany was REIL in the book N 50-1-28 E 7-6-57which wanted to send us half way up the hillside of the grape vines . we found the site along the bank's of the mosel where it was supose to be N50-01-540 E7-06-873 when we got back we rang vicariousbooks who was not interested so i checked my 2010 book against my freinds 2009 book and his co-ordinance's and all wrong again checked my bord atlas european book against french aire and guess what wrong as well since getting back on my tom tom home pluged into my p.c i found lots of downloads P.O.I stellplatz and i found all the sites i was looking for which a had found it before we went . happy camping

 

[vera]

Bord Atlas

We have the 2009 Bord Atlas and use it a lot when we go to Austria and Germany in the winter for our ski holidays, would not be without it, we have a Garmin sat nav and it has always got us there first time,sometimes it would like to use a SHORT CUT but we usually ignore those.
Will have to download all the maps from Wildcamping then we will be set for January.
Sue

 

[Kontiki]

Haven't been to Germany for a couple of years but I've always found the Bord Atlas to be pretty reliable.

 

[Canalsman]

Will have to download all the maps from Wildcamping then we will be set for January.
Sue

Sue

Just note that the downloadable map data is just for England, Wales and Scotland.

Regards

Chris

 

[Zozzer]

We use Bord Atlas as Germany is usually were our main holiday spent. The book is excellent and I would not like to be wthout it. However I must agree there ARE some errors in the book and in the POI set downloadable from Bord Atlas, and when you compound those with some of the lunatic directions from our Tom Tom, then it makes for an interesting holiday. Though I never did find the stellplatz near to Colditz Castle and the stellplatz on the Rhein at Cologne proved a nightmare to find due to one of those errors (corrected in the 2010 version).

Sometimes it's better to trust BordAtlas than your own instincts. As we approached the town of Füssen in Bavaria, we came upon two other motorhomes and decided to follow them against the instuctions of Tom Tom thinking they must know a short cut to the stellplatz through town. As we pulled up in a residential street, we soon learned that the couple we had followed lived there and had been to collect their new motohome from the dealers.

The Tom Tom POI sets are available here.
Bordatlas

 

[oldpolicehouse]

Hello
I travel to Germany several times a year and find the Bord Atlas the best of the many Aires guides I have.
I take it you know that the co-ordinates in the French Aires guide and the Bord Atlas are in a different format. You need to change them in your Tom Tom when you use different guides.
Speaking about Tom Tom the one I have is less than 12months old and the European mapping is years out of date. I think Tom Tom sell new sat navs with old mapping to encourage you to buy the latest maps.

 

[Akhtaris]

Bordatlas user

Hello Syldale,
In reaction on your input, we use Bordatlas often for our trips in Germany. Bordatlas is the book to use for motorhome riders. A tip from us is not to rely on one book alone. Use several books and look often on Google Earth to see the stellplatz location is like. If you had installed in your TomTom the POI from Bordatlas you could see before you travel a mile the route to the next stellplatz location if chosen route is correct represented.
The fun begins at home, finding new routes and motor home locations before traveling a mile.
Regards,
Rob Akhtaris
The Nethetlands.

 

[Deleted member 8180]

We use Bord Atlas + Garmin. Rarely have a problem except in France where dirt tracks seem to qualify as roads...