What now
Wed, 09/18/2013 - 11:30pm
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  15 years
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With all those roads closed due to the rains in Colorado how will Garmin respond?
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15 years
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With all those roads closed due to the rains in Colorado how will Garmin respond?
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And just what would Garmin do, since they don't make the maps. Shouldn't we be more worried about those poor people in Colorado before we start worrying about whether impassible roads are shown correctly on our GPS or not?
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Peerhaps the State of
Peerhaps the State of Colorado will eventually post a list of road outage locations & maintain them until the roads are repaired. Some of those roads looked like they would take months or years to repair from TV images & reports.
When you're traveling in ANY area, there never is a guarantee that roads won't be out & routing via GPS can take you into problems.
Fred
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Not trying to start a PND vs smartphone debate, but since the flooding started Google has provided a crisis map showing flooded roads.
http://google.org/crisismap/2013-boulder-floods
How garmin will respond?
RECALCULATING
On a side note...
let's hope all this water hits the Colorado river. On my last foray into Las Vegas, the Hoover damn was way down.
Striving to make the NYC Metro area project the best.
road closures and delays would be a traffic warning function
With all those roads closed due to the rains in Colorado how will Garmin respond?
That type of road closures and delays would be something that would show up on the traffic function and not the map data. That is not provided by Garmin but by third parties that shows up as a warning on the Garmin GPS.
The traffic data is constantly being updated and should provide warnings in a timely manner. I have seen similar temporary road closures due to flooding or repairs show up in my traffic warnings on my 3790LMT.
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That is something I never
That is something I never thought about.
an94
Detour ahead
Most police departments will erect barriers and/or post signage to move traffic around affected areas.
Floods and road closing are
Floods and road closing are the worst for Garmin.
The Chicago area had bad flooding earlier this year and a drive that normally takes my wife 30 minutes ended up as a 3 hour drive. The Garmin kept re-directing her to other road closures because the traffic reports were not updated. Frustrated driving day for her but she doesn't blame the Garmin but the system for not updating the road closures quick enough.