Friends and I are on a 3-week driving trip in southern Mexico. Shortly before leaving for Mexico, I purchased and downloaded the Mexico maps. They worked well in Mexico City. But elsewhere they have been bad. For example, in Puebla -- Mexico's third largest city -- the location shown for out hotel was simply wrong. When I tried to enter the street address of the hotel (calle 5 sur 105) my Tom Tom would not recognize the name of the street. When I spelled the street name out (calle cinco sur), I was taken to the wrong part of town, 10 km from where I should have been. For another example, in Oaxaca, my Tom Tom said the street on which my hotel was located was unpaved. The street is in the colonial centre of Oaxaca and is completely paved; it has been paved for at least the last 50 years. For a third example, yesterday, coming from Oaxaca to Tuxtla Gutierrez, I wanted to take the toll road from Arriaga to Tuxtla. This road has been in operation for at least 3 years. My Tom Tom did not know about it and kept telling me to 'turn around when possible' or, worse, would have had me make turns where there were no roads to turn on. These are only three examples of many. All in all, the Tom Tom Mexico map is very seriously flawed and unreliable.
