HD traffic may be coming to Canada?

 

With the launch of HD radio stations in Canada early this year we may expect the lunch of HD traffic in Canada as well. I use Smartlink app for traffic which works great but still will be interesting to see HD traffic. I tried to test HD but it will stick to smartlink app only with the message "you need charging cable with a receiver". I am using Garmin charging cable with HD receiver. Did anyone experience any HD traffic signal in Canada yet?

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Iphone XR, Drivesmart 61,Nuvicam, Nuvi3597

Well

Well I think HERE has introduced HD traffic in Vancouver, Calgary and Toronto but it maybe device or vehicle specific at the moment, I really don't know for sure because I haven't really looked into it. Here is the last information I saw about it:

http://360.here.com/2016/02/24/here-introduces-hd-traffic-in...

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Nuvi 350, 760, 1695LM, 3790LMT, 2460LMT, 3597LMTHD, DriveLuxe 50LMTHD, DriveSmart 61, Garmin Drive 52, Garmin Backup Camera 40 and TomTom XXL540s.

Thanks for providing the

Thanks for providing the link. I will try it by resetting my Nuvicam because it has HD receiver. I will give it a try and see how good it is.

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Iphone XR, Drivesmart 61,Nuvicam, Nuvi3597

I tested HD signal on my

I tested HD signal on my NuviCam but no luck. It does not appear to to active in Toronto area. There are quite a few HD radio station in GTA but it did not pick any HD signal and my Nuvi app list remained the same. It did not add weather and gas prices etc.
But once I switched it back to Smartlink, Weather app came back along with traffic. And the traffic was lot superior. So it does not appear to be available yet or may be available for some special devices only.

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Iphone XR, Drivesmart 61,Nuvicam, Nuvi3597

I tested HD signal on my

I tested HD signal on my NuviCam but no luck. It does not appear to to active in Toronto area. There are quite a few HD radio station in GTA but it did not pick any HD signal and my Nuvi app list remained the same. It did not add weather and gas prices etc.
But once I switched it back to Smartlink, Weather app came back along with traffic. And the traffic was lot superior. So it does not appear to be available yet or may be available for some special devices only.

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Iphone XR, Drivesmart 61,Nuvicam, Nuvi3597

Contacted Garmin but no

Contacted Garmin but no solid answer about the HD traffic in Canada.
Contacted "Here" on there Twitter account, no answer. Again contacted them on their Facebook account. This time they gave me brief answer that YES HD traffic was available in Canada and recommended me to contacts Garmin to make it available in Canada.

Finally after doing more research, I have found out that it was launched in Honda vehicles in dash navigation systems only in Canada. Eventually it should be out on other devices as well.

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Iphone XR, Drivesmart 61,Nuvicam, Nuvi3597

thanks for the info

thanks for the info

HD

This is not about HD traffic, but a radio station (640AM-HD) I listen to is supposed to transmit in HD. My Nav/Radio unit is set to receive HD but I still do not receive HD. HD is supposed to have a symbol showing, it does not.

So what is supposed to be and what actually happens may be two different things.

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Nuvi 2797LMT, DriveSmart 50 LMT-HD, Using Windows 10. DashCam A108C with GPS.

That's

rookie8155 wrote:

Finally after doing more research, I have found out that it was launched in Honda vehicles in dash navigation systems only in Canada. Eventually it should be out on other devices as well.

That's what I suspected when I posted above and indicated that it maybe vehicle specific at this time. Although I didn't find it all that clear, HERE made it sound like it was possibly only on Honda vehicles at the moment:

http://360.here.com/2016/02/24/here-introduces-hd-traffic-in...

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Nuvi 350, 760, 1695LM, 3790LMT, 2460LMT, 3597LMTHD, DriveLuxe 50LMTHD, DriveSmart 61, Garmin Drive 52, Garmin Backup Camera 40 and TomTom XXL540s.

I hope it will be available

I hope it will be available one day. I have tested it in US cites, it works well only when you are in the HD signal range, once you are out of range then you miss all the latest traffic info. I eventually switched back to Smartlink app traffic because this was lot more updated and relieable.

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Iphone XR, Drivesmart 61,Nuvicam, Nuvi3597

I will keep an eye on this

I will keep an eye on this post. Thanks in advance.

Sure. I will keep you guys

Sure. I will keep you guys posted about any new development. I would guess that it may take few years before we see it on Garmin devices. In early 2013 I first time heard about HD radio coming to Canada but after that no news. I contacted few companies/organizions who were involved in testing but no response. But now there are more than 15 HD stations in Canada. There are quite a few in Tororonto area.

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Iphone XR, Drivesmart 61,Nuvicam, Nuvi3597

I love my HD radio

The HD radio in my 2016 Toyota Highlander is awesome, on my recent trip up the east coast of the US it kept me up to date with traffic and weather info, not only will you find the HD stations in major cities but in many medium size towns, we like the weather radar screen to keep informed of what lays ahead on the route. Highly recommend vehicles with the HD radio built in.

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