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Would you like update your TomTom? Today we have a lot of ways to get to our destination. Far behind are those giant paper maps that we could unfold, but it was somewhat more difficult to consult them and put them back in the glove compartment. Now we all have a lot of those maps in our pocket, on our smartphone. In any case, desktop GPS navigators have larger antennas and will always be more accurate than our mobiles and the most famous navigators have always been TomTom's on their own merits.

The TomTom maps offer us a lot of information And so it has been for a long time. Information becomes obsolete as quickly as the streets change, so in just six months, depending on the area in which we live, we can have a GPS that guides us through areas that no longer exist. The good thing is that upgrade a TomTom for free this information is a fairly straightforward process. The bad thing is that we will have to pay a lot to keep our device updated. If, for whatever reason, we cannot bear the expense, we can always download the maps by other means.

Download TomTom Maps Free

The best way to keep our desktop TomTom always up to date is to visit the forum at forokeys.com. At Forokeys we have all the necessary information available so that our TomTom gives us the correct information and is not, as a friend of mine says, a simple "idiot" instead of a TomTom. But at Forokeys there are not only maps for TomTom, but there are also other incentives that will make our navigator a road tool.

The incentives I am referring to are the points of interest, better known as POI (Point of Interest) or POI. Among the points of interest we also have the fixed radars, some radars that must be published by law, but it is always better to have them included in our GPS navigator than to have to consult the information of the DGT (General Directorate of Traffic) every time we go to make a trip through an area that does not we know.

To be able to use TomTom maps, the first thing we have to do is look for the ones that interest us. To do this, after registering, we can perform a search in the forum. If you want maps of Spain, what interests you is to search for "Iberia" or "Europe". Once the map is downloaded, it will have to be activated, for which you must also download the activator that is available in the forum.

Downloading a map in ForoKeys is not different from how we do it in many websites for downloading files of this type (unofficial). In the forum we will find a post with the links to TomTom maps that we look for, these links will take us to the map download site in one of the domains to download the most famous files (like Mega, but this one seems to be available only for VIP forum users). Once downloaded we will have to install them.

Install TomTom Maps

Install a map on a Tomtom GPS Desktop is not complicated at all (the complicated comes later). To install it, we will do the following:

1. We connect the USB cable to the GPS and to the computer (Windows, if it can be).
2. We located the file that we had downloaded and unzipped it (if it was compressed).
3. In "My PC" we will see our TomTom as a removable drive. We open it.
4. We right click and create a folder.
5. We rename the folder with the same name as the file we had downloaded. Very important that it has the same name or it will not work. If we have downloaded "eastern_europe.zip", our folder should be called "eastern_europe" (without quotes in both cases).
6. We copy the data from the unzipped file into the new folder and we would already have them installed, but we still have to activate them.

Activate TomTom Maps with fantactivate

There are other ways, but I think this is the simplest and fastest. You can download "fantactivate" from ForoKeys; is as a fixed post. To activate the maps we will do the following:

1. We connect our TomTom GPS to our Windows PC.
2. We access our Tomtom's removable drive on our PC.
3. We copy the file FastActivate.exe to the root of the internal memory of the GPS. If we have a card, better on the SD card.
4. We run FastActivate.exe
5. We click on the number of the menu we need. You are supposed to press the number 4.

How to install Radars on TomTom

We can also install POIs (Points of Interest) on our TomTom desktop. Knowing how TomTom maps are installed, install radars so that they warn us and not take the photo is child's play. We just have to drag the files we have downloaded, which usually have names like "radars_fijos.ov2" (and the rest with different extensions), to the desired map folder.

It is important to mention that, logically, if we download points of interest or radars from Spain, we will have to copy them into the folder «Iberia» or a map that contains Spain, such as that of Europe. The radars of Spain will not work on an Asian map and, once we leave the country where we have installed the radars, we will stop receiving notifications. Anyway, although I have seen radars of Spain on maps of Europe, the most convenient is use points of interest only on maps for which they were created. It's better to prevent than to cure.

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If you have a TomTom desktop navigator, you no longer have an excuse so that it always tells you how it should be, something that is always important and much more if we are on the road. It is also worth installing the radars on the maps you use, which will help you, above all, so that the police do not punish you, something that always comes in handy and even more so now, that there is a major crisis in which nobody It is good to spend more than necessary.

Either way, "Caution, driver friend, the road is dangerous." Is it clear to you how update your TomTom for free?