What are the odds?

To carry a atlas in the pocket behind the driver seat!

If there's a map update that might fix the map error in your existing map set. I always also have paper maps & check out long travel routes for trips before I go to see if they're reasonable & correct.

Fred

Yup ... there are reports of folks driving off cliffs by following their GPS's ... so are you still stuck in the dead end street ... if so, turn around and recalculate! Ha!

Google Maps has the same error. A railroad grade crossing was replaced by an adjacent overpass many years ago. The original paving remains because their are businesses on both sides of the tracks. But there are permanent barricades so you cannot not drive through. I guess that means the original street remains, although it should not be routeable.

I will run into a road that looks like it used to be a full road, but now it just dead ends.

When that happens I just mark it as a detour on my Nuvi and let it re-calculate.

Welcome to the world of GPS's. At least this didn't cause serious injury to anyone.

If it still may look like through street from satellite than probably Navteq will not change this on its own. They will rather not scanning small streets for this type of changes. Best you can do is to report this as routing/map error. They will than make change to maps so it should work properly. But probably it will not happen too soon, as street is small and unimportant.

Details how to report errors are here:

https://support.garmin.com/support/searchSupport/case.faces?caseId={30e97350-e955-11dc-d6fc-000000000000}

Is it better to report to Garmin or Navteq directly (if that is at all possible)? I've run into this scenario several times myself and not just with Garmin but with my Pioneer HU as well.

I think it is better to report to Navteq

it's not really the fault of GPS or of Garmin. Paper maps are normally less accurate because they're not updated as often. Seems to be the primary blame goes to the user who doesn't use common sense, and then to the map suppliers who don't correct reported mistakes in a timely manner.

The nature of the beast is that there will always be mistakes, just hopefully not ones that place observant users in harm's way. BTW, cute doggie!

This specific case was pretty comical. Even if you took the wrong road, you would need to backtrack less than 100 yards. Since it is a local park, I doubt very many people are using their GPS for navigating.

It does look like a through street on the satellite view. The paving was never removed; they just added barricades that are hard to see on the photos. Looks like they even rebuilt the grade crossing. I suspect the original street could be used for emergency access or possibly railroad maintenance

This is an excellent point about a GPS in comparison to a paper map. For some reason, a paper map seems more reliable but if the paper map is not updated, it would encounter similar problems of error in accuracy as a non updated GPS.

I've reported some changes to Navteq with good results, even though it will take some time to see the changes.

Garmin routes me through a dead-end road, instead of staying on the state highway. Google made the change in a few weeks. Three years later Navteq is still "investigating."
Satellite view is obvious. A bank building is located where the road used to be.

Report any errors to Google cause they usually update errors within a month's time

http://here.com/mapcreator/37.08909999999999,-81.85218750000...

to report two streets that appear in the satellite view but have no names attached to them.

On my Garmin, they do not appear at all, but I use them as shortcuts all the time.

Google versus NAVTEQ is like day and night. I also have reports that NAVTEQ has been investigating now for several yearS without correction

Personally I'm done with NAVTEQ.

I've been checking here.com pretty regularly since I saw mention of it on this forum. If you check the list of countries as to which the map creator function asserts there is current editing capability, there are 27 countries on the North American list (from Anguilla to the British Virgin Islands). NOT on the list for North America are:

1. Canada
2. Mexico
3. USA

One can go through a reporting process for a change in Albuquerque NM without getting an explicit error message, but my guess is that things we submit now are either going into the bit bucket, or at best grist for startup slow and uncertain operations.

If anyone knows better, please post.