Droid X got me there again when nuvi 660 couldn't

I've read that market researchers have predicted less and less use, as well as, falling sales of pure navigation units due to GPS incorporation within Smart-phones. The researchers are saying the price of GPS Nav units are falling because demand has peaked, supply is high and Smart-phones are taking over multi-function roles.

The Nuvi certainly knows that road/street by SOME name. Looking at the street name on the Nuvi map once you get there might help with finding similar things in the future.

They get their snail mail delivered just fine, but I've got a relative whose house is on a county road a half mile or less off a US highway near Ada, Oklahoma. The only way I'll ever navigate there via GPS is by saving my current location while I'm already there. Not one single online or other source I've tried to date has ever pinpointed their place (or a neighbor's) accurately on a map.

I hope local emergency responders are as familiar with area roadways and intersections as the postman, 'cause anything else is gonna send 'em to the wrong vicinity completely, if it points to anywhere at all.

You raise an interesting idea. I just got the D2, I'm going on a trip in a couple of days so I'll see how different their directions / route are. I'll use the 660 going and the D2 returning. Possibility, I'll never get there or never get back?

Remember my post after returning from vacation in Arkansas, and me trying to find Rush, Arkansas....

Hopefully, that is why we are paying for lifetime maps?

Our Friend's Droid found it in my case, too!

There are still a few reasons to use PND's over a smartphone, but those are diminishing rapidly. The main issues I have with using my Moment or my wife's Pre for nav are speaker volume, convenience(PND is always mounted in car) and the very rare problem of being out of data range for map d/l. Googles free nav will improve and remove virtually any reason to own a dedicated nav device. I only bought my Nuvi 765t because it was almost absurdly cheap and have little doubt that it will be the last dedicated nav device I ever buy. Moving forward, nav will either be built into the vehicle or provided via phone and there really won't be much room in between for The likes of Garmin or TomTom IMO.

Someone, somewhere needs to log it, enter it, change it when needed (biz name/loc), and then make it available.

Add the info yourself at http://www.openstreetmap.org/

The speed of web info exchange and it could (will eventually) feed standalone apps as well.

I wonder if part of the answer to this dilemma would be to use the zip code poi from this forum? I wonder if that would help at all...

Here here. I added a pedestrian bridge over a creek in my town earlier this year, which is good for bike routing too, and can save one quite a bit of time over alternate routes. I'm hoping that the big commercial mappers also peek at Openstreetmap when they are updating.

. . .I was planning to Save Current Location and use the Lat/Long from that to report it to Navteq. Not sure what I could do about entire roadways currently labeled/drawn incorrectly, but Open Street Map is an interesting link I didn't know about. (Something else to explore now.) Good info!

. . .to get the location/address even if I memorized the zip code. I doubt the USPS even knows the coordinates, but leaves me wondering what UPS and FedEx use for their delivery drivers?