New Navteq CD database
#31
Re: New Navteq CD database
The map data comes from Navteq, yes -- Garmin and many other GPS companies do indeed use their data.
The data is just one small piece of the puzzle, however, hence the variety of different GPS makers and products out there. You can have two (different) units in a vehicle and travel and route to the same destination and have different driving guidance, routing, and mapping shown to you. Seen it happen (have driven to Dallas from San Antonio, and other locales, letting the FEH do its nav -- for the entertainment of my passengers -- and using my Garmin Streetpilot as my actual navigation aid.) One will do fine when the other has a 'brain fart', etc. It also depends on how the units are configured (less speaking of the FEH one since configuration options are a bit limited in it compared to aftermarket units.)
The data is just one small piece of the puzzle, however, hence the variety of different GPS makers and products out there. You can have two (different) units in a vehicle and travel and route to the same destination and have different driving guidance, routing, and mapping shown to you. Seen it happen (have driven to Dallas from San Antonio, and other locales, letting the FEH do its nav -- for the entertainment of my passengers -- and using my Garmin Streetpilot as my actual navigation aid.) One will do fine when the other has a 'brain fart', etc. It also depends on how the units are configured (less speaking of the FEH one since configuration options are a bit limited in it compared to aftermarket units.)
Last edited by GeekGal; 09-11-2007 at 05:48 AM. Reason: elaboration
#32
Re: New Navteq CD database
Navteq does do the map data for Garmin. And it can be worse, in that Garmin handles their own distribution. So, the data used, can be even older. I mean, Navteq could have fixed/updated their map data, but subsequently Garmin releases "new" maps based on the older data.
I have a Garmin for years now, and I find that Garmin lags Navteq by almost 2 years. I have reported a error in one of my local streets (it is a 1-way, but the map data showed it as 2-way) about two years ago. Six months after I reported it, Navteq's map viewer on their own website showed the change, but it wasn't until Garmin's 2008 map update, that I just got, that it shows the fix.
I have a Garmin for years now, and I find that Garmin lags Navteq by almost 2 years. I have reported a error in one of my local streets (it is a 1-way, but the map data showed it as 2-way) about two years ago. Six months after I reported it, Navteq's map viewer on their own website showed the change, but it wasn't until Garmin's 2008 map update, that I just got, that it shows the fix.
#33
Re: New Navteq CD database
but their website does have a place to enter map mistakes, and correct for future versions
#34
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I think that is true, to some extent, for most nav systems which keep a local copy of the map data.
The only real alternative is to use something like Verizon's VZ Navigator, that makes use of map data that is updated constantly.
The only real alternative is to use something like Verizon's VZ Navigator, that makes use of map data that is updated constantly.
#35
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Yep went to the website when I first got my FEH in may and the changes were already logged. So now they have released a "new" version with old data that they knew was wrong, wrong for a long time. THese are not dirt roads either. So can I trust the nav system when I'm in an unfamilar city?
A printed map could be even worse.
That being said in a unknown city you'll be a heck of a lot better off now than before, better off than with a printed map and my parents never died or starved before finding a McDonalds with 10 year old printed maps in their glove compartments
Nature of the beast I'm afraid...
Someday they will be over the air programmable and will update constantly. The verizon navigator mentioned uses an over the air map but even that database can be old.
#36
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yea I'm just a little po'ed one of the roads really should have been on the map by now it was built and opened in febuary of 2003. My road I take to work was built and opened in march of 2005. Both are shown to be pastures.
#37
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The access road they built back in 2002, that runs to the industrial park where I work, finally is shown in the 2008 map update disk I just got for my Garmin. Until this, it showed me driving thru a cemetery, and complained I was "off road".
#38
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"make an immediate safe u turn" "To continue on your route please make an immediate safe u turn" Shut up shut up!!! "warning off road condition---please make an immediate safe u turn"
#39
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Actually it says "please make a legal U turn" which sounds like "please make illegal U turn" so that is what I do, and if the officer asks, I'll blame it on the nav system--so I have an out . Obviously, just kidding.
#40
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OK... dumb question....
Do the newer 2007 4V discs, which come from Navteq, have the Ford logo and a Ford part number on them? Or are they truly Navteq disks?
I was wondering if Ford, itself, will be offering the update, and possibly at a better price???
Do the newer 2007 4V discs, which come from Navteq, have the Ford logo and a Ford part number on them? Or are they truly Navteq disks?
I was wondering if Ford, itself, will be offering the update, and possibly at a better price???