2009 Maps Better than 2010
Sat, 06/12/2010 - 6:46pm
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15 years
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My old Nuvi 200 had more accurate maps for street addresses than what my new unit with 2010 maps does.
My old 2009 maps and nuvi show my house in the correct location buy my new nuvi and 2010.10 maps show if about a quarter mile further down than what is correct.
Think I read somewhere Garmin uses some UPS addressing information that was crap. Anyone else heard of this and or did they improve on the 2011 maps.
Regards
P.S. Holding off for my 2011.20 upgrade(see previous post) just curious on this issue if anyone else has encountered.
I just updated to the
I just updated to the latest, and at least in my area, everything is fine so far.
2011
I just got 2011 and it seems fine
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It shows my home address in it's exact real location
On my 2011.10 maps it shows my home address when I enter it exactly where it actually is.
Garmin Drive Smart 55 - Samsung Note 10 Smartphone with Google Maps & HERE Apps
Map Quality
They moved my house a good block further down than on the previous map.
The Old Coach
New Maps
On my 2011.10 maps it shows my home address when I enter it exactly where it actually is.
Ditto here
nuvi' 2450
My 2011.10
maps are right on, but every now and then, one might be 50 or so feet away, no problem though...
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a couple of points
Well, I personally only have 2010.20 as me newest mapping, but . . .
1. Garmin uses nothing from UPS - in fact they don't use anything from anyone except Navteq in the US - though Navteq may get some of their data from the postal service, rather than UPS, my understandiong is that they have done their own survey work. That is one reason you are not able to ocate by postal code in the US, but that you ca in Canada.
2. Address location is done by calculation, rather than by absolutes; They will locate two addresses on a street and the application will extrapolate the location of other specific addresses from there.
This works fine when there is a fixed size to the property lots, but can be interesting when it isn't; when I was in the midwest recently I had the pleasure of trying to find a house on a street which was broken into 20 segregated sections that were not connected together - you had to turn, go to the next street and travel a block, then return to the street in question. Navteq's guidance couldn't even place the address in the right street section.
On sthat score nothing has changed from what I have been told.
Currently have: SP3, GPSMAP 276c, Nuvi 760T, Nuvi 3790LMT, Zumo 660T