What towns have LANE ASSIST and/or Junction View

Washington DC and Baltimore

Perhaps I just don't understand, but what difference does it make if the town you are going to has Lane Assist or not?

Would you avoid that town for the lack? What of the suburbs of the town?

Not all intersections or turnoffs have Lane Assist anyway - it isn't as if you get the lane symbols on the upper left corner for every turn.

Bram,

Because I just want to know, if it is alright with you.

As to whether I would try to avoid a town without; I probably wouldn't drive more than a few hundred miles out of my way just to be able to use my feature. See a ridiculous answer for a ridiculous question.

Are you sure?? I never thought of that!!

Does lane assist exist in Brooklyn (New York City)?

david

Might not be a huge feature now. I remember a few years ago when GPS's came out that you only had detailed maps of major urban centers. Now we have all of North America or more in the palm of our hand.

Lane Assist for me would be handy if I was in a strange city. Lane Assist is in its infancy now, but in a few years could be included in most of the mapset.

Today, it is not make or break feature for me, but in a gps purchase a few years from now, it may be.

Lane Assist and Junction View work great here in the DFW area.

And if I were an out of towner traveling to Chicago, I'd find it even more useful. In addition it has a lot of junction views and lane assists outside the city in the burbs. I have seen some more than 40 miles away from the Loop.

Dah Bears

Atlanta, Nashville, and Orlando.

Works well for me in North Jersey, New York and Philadelphia.

St. Louis has it!

As an RV driver who also tows a car, I would value Lane Assist as I perceive it would add an extra alert of needed lane changes...and we all know the world needs more lerts!!!

Seattle has it.

Staten island , New york has it..

Lane assist only comes into play if you are following a route, and then not always. On my 885 I get a combination of LA and Junction View where I might get a JV, but no lane assist, sometimes its just LA, and still other times it is none of them.

Heading south on one freeway, I'll get JV and LA if I go one way at the split, nothing if I go the other way. It depends on the maneuver that has to be made.

Anybody know if there are any Lane Assist areas in Canada, like in Toronto or Ottawa?

Not that it matters, I don't think my 760 will do lane assist. Just curious.

When lane assist on the Nuvi first came out there wasn't much, if any, information about Canadian roads. There maybe now and there will be more as the quarterly map updates are released. Like roads this may be a slow process to get new data added for Canada.

Have not been down into the city Chicago yet with my 755T but the lane assist is popping up in the northwest suburbs for sure. 290/355 elgin-ohare, etc. And was just down in bloomington/normal area and if I recall correctly it was working down there as well.

H Hannah, thanks for posting this question. I hope you will create and post an organized list of the responses you get.

Lane Assist and Junction View feature works in Greator Toronto Area. I don't know about Ottawa and Montreal.

In my limited experience with my Nuvi 765T it seems to function on major roads (Interstates) in the 5 states I have been in in the last 3 weeks (Lou, Miss, Tenn, Ark, Tex) just fine, the lane assist I get on non interstates roadways is the small left hand corner turn indicators on multilane roads only.

Lane assist works in most areas around Detroit & its surrounding suburbs & throughout most of our recent trip to Mackinac. Junction view is available in some areas but is hit or miss.

On a somewhat related topic, I've seen very few 3d buildings appear on the map in our area, however, when leaving a golf course this spring, the road that I was on was not listed on the map but there was a 3d representation of the course's clubhouse!

It works in several locations here

Atlanta
Baltimore
Chicago & Burbs
Cincinnati
Dallas-Fort Worth
Detroit
Houston
Indianapolis
Los Angeles
Nashville
New York
North New Jersey
Orlando
Philadelphia
Pittsburgh
Seattle
St Louis
Staten Island
Toronto
Washington DC

Cleveland and San Diego from my 1490T.

Hey I hope this feature only gets better I can use all the help I can get. I travel for business in city's I've not driven in so BRING in on!

Bramfrank; come on, let H Hannah have his moment; one day it might be you asking the question.
I was once told that the only stupid question is the one not asked, and yes we have lane assist in OH-IO, come on Buckeye fans say it with me OH-IO.
I know that was a clever plug for THE Ohio State University Buckeyes.

I have a Nuvi 650 with no lane assist feature. The voice guidance does tell to bear to the left or right, when coming to a major intersection/exit. So this is as good as lane assist.

Apparently this is what has been converted to the lane assist. The feature was there, the display has been updated to include this.

No disrespect intended, but the question and comment were perfectly reasonable - and the arrogant reaction by the rather prolific OP was not.

Lane Assist and Junction View are *wherever they are*.

It seems to work, often at exits where you wouldn't expect them to be because of the simplicity of the roadway and clear signage. Sometimes it isn't where you *need* them.

Since only *some* interchanges are covered in any city, it's a nice feature, but you certainly can't count on it being there on your route everywhere when you travel and it isn't as if you can set a routing preference to take you through 'Lane Assist interchanges'.

While we have it at some major interchanges in Montreal (where I live), and I saw it operating in Boston, Atlanta and a number of other cities (like Cincinatti) on a recent road trip, at this point in time IMO it is really more of a pleasant novelty than a tool whose presence you can depend on everywhere, even in 'equipped' cities.

If one had a list of the implemented interchanges in a given city, it might be useful as a planning tool.

Maybe as they extend their coverage over time, but the implementation of the feature as it stands today is such that one can simply not depend on it being available at important and unfamiliar intersections. Hence my original comment.

Apparently, LA does not exist in Phoenix. NOt that we need it everywhere but it would come in handy in a few spots. Maybe in the next map update.

Houston, Texas

Dallas, Texas (but not everywhere)Houston also has it at some locations but coverage is sketchy. Also, it only pops up for a couple of seconds then dissappears

Everyone.... Sorry, my comments were about Junction View. Lane assist works well in both Houston and Dallas

Lane assist most definitely is everywhere in the Phoenix area. Do you possibly mean Junction View?

for those where lane assist would be helpful(even in your own area) it would be nice to know if it exists for your interested cities before you pay extra for a unit where it would not be helpful

Philadelphia and Delaware are loaded with them on I-95 and I-495

Dear Joe,

I was hoping you might occasionally go over the VZ Bridge and check whether Brooklyn had it too.

Your friendly neighbour, david

A really easy way to check if junction view exists in any location is to go to Navteq.com and enter a start and ending address 'search' & 'route' fields at the top of the page. Then click on the ROUTE icon. The resulting trip route that appears on the left side of the screen will, by default, show you the actual junction views along your route.

Enter 90012 Los Angeles USA and 10007 New York USA and you'll see the "views" available along that route from one coast to the other.

to check if lane assist is available, all you need to do is put your nuvi in the simulation mode. then using the map find an area you want to check, then use set location along a road a the place your curser past some interchanges further along the route, select go snd watch your screen.

And yes in crossing the VZ Bridge west to east you do see lane assist along the route!

I have the 885T and drive all over Phoenix all the time and I've never seen LA pop up. I alway get the junction view or next turn lane in the upper left hand corner of my unit but never LA. Is there anyon else that can validate that they often see lane assit in the phoenix market? I think perhaps that some people do not know the difference between LA and junction view. I've never seen a 'reality view" or lane assit box pop out and show the right lane to be in. I do always see the junction view where it shows all of the lanes and all are grayed out except the lane you need to take at the next turn. I always get that, with every next turn.

Sac. has it for at least one interchange. And many in the Bay Area are available.

I have never seen lane assist in the Phoenix and surrounding areas just the lane arrows with the suggested lanes in the upper left corner. I did have lane assist pop up many times when I was in the Los Angeles areas of California.

Minneapolis/St. Paul has lane assist. We are leaving NC for MN next Sunday. Did a sim to the airport. Lane assist came on twice for me. I havent experienced Lane Assist in real life yet. Will be interesting to see if it looks like the real thing.

Those arrows with the lanes highlighted in the upper left corder IS lane assist.

That 'reality view' (as Gerry describes it), the simulated signs that pop up? That's 'Junction View'.

Yes, some are still mixing Junction View with Lane Assist, though Garmin has not always been clear about them.

You will find Lane Assist - the arrows in the left hand corner most everywhere there are multiple lanes and you are on a route, and just Major highways. When on Rt19 in Florida for instance Lane Assist shows. And yes, I saw Lane Assist used all over Phoenix.

Juntion View is in less areas, but that is because it is a different function and not every area has a need for it. (I also think not essential as Lane Assist is, but can be helpful and there are certainly areas that probably should have it by now) You are most likely to see it on a major highway, when two major routes divide, or a major route is separating from a small route and it is not evident. A case of this is coming off the George Washington Bridge, heading south to the New Jersey TPK. If you stay straight as you might think you would do, you would not be on the TPK. Instead, you have to stay right and then actually take an "Exit" to enter the TPK. Junction View pops up and shows the actual junction with the actual two overhead signs, one of them dimmed out, the correct one showing.

Perhaps I do not have a clear understanding of JV and LA , myself. But when I get the "junction View" as you call it, pop up and cover the entire screen for about 5 seconds, there is a tab that says it is Lane Assist, so this very confusing. Only when I get this pop up screen as you describe JV, do I get tab message in the bottom center of the screen that calls it LAne assist. I will have to call Gamin to get the 'official" word on this , I guess. Anyone else want to ring in on this?

has lane assist (arrows in the upper left) everywhere.

On my 885T it also shows a "Lane Assist" tab on the next turn page and when I touch the tab it shows the next turn as a photo realistic depiction with highway signage.

Page 16 of the 885T Owner's Manual states the following and I have quoted it exactly. (The only reference in the entire 76 page manual to Lane Assist is on pages 15 and 16 and nowhere does the manual ever reference "Junction View", the word junction only appears once and it occurs in the quote below):

"Lane Assist Page
When available, the Lane Assist page may display a view of the upcoming junction and in which lane you should be driving. You can also accesss the Lane Assist page from the Next Turn page."

Link to 885T manual download:

http://www8.garmin.com/manuals/nuvi855_OwnersManual.pdf

If anyone isn't quite clear on the subject, PC Magazine did an interesting review on the 885 and included the following pages demonstrating that unit's Lane Assist and Junction view functions as commented screen grabs . . . . there are additional pages of screen shots including MSN Direct weather shots and such for those who may be interested . . click the back and forward buttons on the pages if you want to see them.

Lane Assist:

http://www.pcmag.com/slideshow_viewer/0,1205,l%253D%2526a%25...

Junction View:

http://www.pcmag.com/slideshow_viewer/0,1205,l%253D%2526a%25...

The JV page opens automatically on my Zumo 660 . . . no buttons to press.

While the older Nuvi manuals were a bit ambiguous, for a more detailed and complete description of the feature have a look at the manual for the 1490T.

On my 885T it shows a "Lane Assist" tab on the next turn page and when I touch the tab it shows the next turn as a photo realistic depiction of the next junction with highway signage.

Page 15 of the owners manual shows this exact situation with pictures depicting what I wrote above.

Everytime that a photo realistic view of the upcoming junction is going to be available the "Lane Assist" button lights up and when no view is available the lane assist button is grayed out.

The lane arrows in the upper left corner of the 3D map view screen are always shown whenever there is a active route being navigated.

Lane Assist is explained on pages 15 and 16 of the 885T owners manual.

Link to 885T manual download:

http://www8.garmin.com/manuals/nuvi855_OwnersManual.pdf

Of course you don't change your travel plans based on lane assist but if the product is offered it should be rolled out everywhere as soon as possible.