TomTom Go Mobile/Navigation/NDS with pedestrian mode

**asprin624** · 5th November 2023, 10:26 AM

TomTom has never been very good at topo maps in fact I have never seen one for a smartphone or tablet.
In the screen shot below are both TomTom map vs OSMAND+ map.

As you can see TomTom is missing very much details in regards to paths one could take instead of staying on the street side walks.

Spoiler: TomTom vs Osmand maps

For walking, Hiking and biking the Osmand+ map is far more details then TomTom Maps could ever hope for.

In saying that when TomTom had "pedestrian/walking mode" it never showed short cuts one could take getting around the city or out in the country side.

TomTom only show how to walk to placed via streets.

That is one of the reasons TomTom dropped that function.

Now with Osmand+ you can also use it as a driving app too. It has many ways of using the GPS app.
Also there are other GPS hiking apps out there too that are just as good......

As for TomTom NDS orginal it has always connected to the server and will give you updates to maps.
None of the mod versions work any more nor is anyone trying to patch and of these apps any more.

So if you want a working TomTom GPS app you will have to use the original TomTom NDS version.

**mirovoy** · 5th November 2023, 08:52 PM

Thanks a lot for Osmand+ that I didn’t know! It is so detailed and with so many options that I haven’t seen in any other Android GPS app. Thus, I will definitely use it but I would like to have also TomTom at least as a spare option.

Concerning TomTom NDS, I tried versions 1.9.4, 1.9.6 and 3.19. The first two can’t connect to TomTom and the last doesn’t have Pedestrian mode.

I am wondering why on my old S10 TomTom Go Mobile version 1.17 connects to TomTom and can have updates for all maps. However, after a new installation now of this old version on other phones there is no connection to TomTom. In fact, after at least 10 tries of different old versions there is always no connection to TomTom.