Garmin 2008 map not much of an improvement
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16 years
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My Garmin C330 came with the 2006 map. I found many routes where the directions wanted to divert me into a fence, wrong way on one way streets, into non-existant streets and other mis-directions. They also didn't have a road mapped that was three years old, and it ran past a hospital. I loaded the 2008 map version, and couldn't find any improvement. Just Monday of this week I put in an address to a home, and ended up deep into a state park staring at a locked gate. When I backtracked, and finally got to my destination, my friend told me that even if the gate had been unlocked, I still couldn't drive to his house on that route as the road ended in a dead end with a concrete barrier. I realize that those problems aren't really Garmin's fault. The problem lies with the mapping software, and Garmin purchases that. But, it's still frustrating. However, with all the mis-directions it's still a valuable asset. You just have to be careful where you drive. Don't blindly follow the GPS' voice and mapped route.
2009 map update
normuss,
Best you can do ( and should do ) is report that error to NavTeq via their error reporting form.
I know oyu should not have to do their work, but if everyone reports the errors, they will eventually correct it for the betterment of all of us map users.
Tim
here's the link
Navteq here:
http://mapreporter.navteq.com/dur-web-external/secured/submi...
Garmin Reporting Page here:
http://www8.garmin.com/cartography/mapSource/errorForm.jsp
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Fascinating!!
My Garmin C330 came with the 2006 map. I found many routes where the directions wanted to divert me into a fence, wrong way on one way streets, into non-existant streets and other mis-directions. They also didn't have a road mapped that was three years old, and it ran past a hospital. I loaded the 2008 map version, and couldn't find any improvement. Just Monday of this week I put in an address to a home, and ended up deep into a state park staring at a locked gate. When I backtracked, and finally got to my destination, my friend told me that even if the gate had been unlocked, I still couldn't drive to his house on that route as the road ended in a dead end with a concrete barrier. I realize that those problems aren't really Garmin's fault. The problem lies with the mapping software, and Garmin purchases that. But, it's still frustrating. However, with all the mis-directions it's still a valuable asset. You just have to be careful where you drive. Don't blindly follow the GPS' voice and mapped route.
I am always fascinated by reports of flat-out wrong directions. I can honestly say that in the 4 years of using Garmin GPSr's (the GPSmap 60CS loaded with NA maps and now the Nuvi 650), I have never has a “wrong” direction. I've used it to travel back and forth from MI to AZ a couple of times as well as local trips around MI and AZ. We may be talking semantics, though. There has been occasions when an obvious new intersection or road hasn't been taken into consideration in the directions, but I have never had an outright wrong direction.
The one thing that does bug me is when the directions want me to turn down some road, then takes me through a series of turns to put me back on the same road I was on a few blocks away - that's happened several times. My best guess is that at one time, the road I'm on didn't go through so it tries to get me where I want to go the best it can.
It still beats my neighbor's stories about using OnStar in downtown Chicago a few years ago where they tried to get him to turn into Lake Michigan - twice!!!
--- GPSmap 60CS, Nuvi 650 & Nuvi 1490T---