Oh Goody! It’s FIXED! (map correction)

Apparently southbound I-49 no longer routes over to ground level starting through north side of Alexandria, LA and down US-71 well past Lecompte before returning to I-49. That was a lot of local traffic, traffic lights, and lower speed limits that harkened back decades to the original construction of I-49 through that entire area, but got implemented again with some update that Garmin released around 2-4 years ago.

Unfortunately, travelers eastbound on US-190 approaching Baton Rouge must still remain alert for the Lobdell/LA-415 intersection to divert over to I-10 or continue being inefficiently routed across the Old MS River Bridge to southbound I-110. Both eastbound routes encounter the widening project for I-10 through Baton Rouge between the I-10 MS River Bridge and the I-12/I-10 split at the eastern end of the project. Sticking w/ Garmin's route is not only slower, it passes through some pretty sketchy areas compared to the alternative.

After a decade of complaining to the HERE database people, my neighbors driveway is no longer shown as a road. It has 2 entrances and drivers, following GPS routing, were using it as a shortcut.

The driveway is actually a narrow muddy path and I actually made a few bucks by dragging stuck delivery trucks out with my tractor.

I submitted a couple corrections in my neighborhood of incorrect street names a month ago to here.com, they agreed (I sent photos) and said in 6 to 8 weeks I'd see the correction on their map, the web based one anyway.

They had my street listed as AVE instead of ST, and to be honest the township had the signs that way too. But all my gov't documents relating to this house has Street. After a year of complaining to the township they finally came out and placed ST stickers over the AVE on the signs. They also recently fixed another road Rogers, they had left the s off on most of the signs along that road. Here.com had that one as Rodgers, don't know where they got that from.

We shall see if those corrections make it to the web and a future Garmin update. Google has no way of submitting proof in photos so every time I submit the corrections to them they get denied.

They can correct the other 6.8 million errors!

They actually had U177 in the release

… and my Dr’s office is now finally mapped in the 2025.20 release.

I found the method to submit updates/corrections.
Create an account with Here. https://mapcreator.here.com/
Then edit the map with your corrections and save. They may show up in the future or you may be asked to join a campaign to contribute more updates over time.

cassel

I an happy its fixed

I recently had a satisfactory experience getting a Google map corrected. My house has a >300 foot driveway off a cul-de-sac. The major axis of the driveway is almost a straight projection of the major axis of the road. There was an update this year (presumably a Google car flitted by) and then they apparentlly unleashed the AI Beast. With it’s profound intellect the AI Beast 1) decided that my driveway was the street, and much worse 2) actually labelled my driveway with the street name.

If you right-click on a Google Maps point, one of the options is “Report a data problem”. Within a week it was fixed.

This mattered to us a lot due to occasional lost souls who are curious (about what? a house?) and who don’t know how to back out.

My Tesla displays an incorrect speed limit on several segments of Interstate 25 here in Albuquerque. The displayed speed limit is 45 mph which is not correct for any segment here.

I do not know which of several data sources that Tesla uses that wrong limit came from but I tried submitting a correction to Google maps. I checked today and it appears only as an edit submitted on October 17 and noted as "not accepted (1)".

That data likely comes from the government and I think that is why they won't change it.

I'm a little surprised that Teslas don't read the speed limit signs with a forward-facing camera. My almost 2 year old Hyundai does that, and I've been pleasantly surprised how accurate it is. Not quite 100% accurate, but far better than a perpetually out-of-date database.

Does the camera "really" read the signs... or, is it the GPS location that triggers what you think the camera does. My Garmin DS65 does a reasonable job picking up speed signs... without a camera.

On my Toyota Crown, the front facing camera actually reads certain signs ... stop signs, pedestrian crossings, speed limits, etc. It doesn't display the actual sign, but a graphic representation.

It is pretty accurate. The main problem I have with it is on multi-lane streets with heavy traffic when high profile vehicles block the view. Also, in my state, school zone speed limit signs often have "when chidren are present" notification. The Toyota always posts the school zone speed limit even in the summer when school is not in session. It is still a good reminder though.

No doubt that it's reading the signs. It's been a frequent topic of discussion on the Hyundai owner's site that I frequent, and I'm sure many others. However, that aside, I've seen it demonstrated multiple times near my home. I live in a very fast-growing area, where open fields are quickly turning into subdivisions. Within about two miles of me, two completely new city streets have been built across what were once open, undeveloped farm fields. As usual, the various map databases, from HERE and others, were slow to pick up these new streets and roads, so for almost a year the onboard nav map showed me driving across a blank screen, nowhere close to an existing street. However, less than a half-second after passing a speed limit sign on the new streets, the speed limit display on the dash showed the correct speed limit number.

Progress, but there are still a lot of others.

me too.

for getting new map updates. I have seen corrections within an hour after a new road opens. Totally amazing!!!

The exact right way to talk about what Tesla does with speed limit signs is something forum participants fight over. But there is ample evidence that in some sense they "see", "read" and respond to many speed limit signs.

As you pass a speed limit sign on the road side, the situation screen which displays detected road, other vehicles, lane striping, and so on often displays a speed limit side with a number on it.

This is positional, and a different thing than the "current believed speed limit" which has a set position in the display header. Sometimes passing a sign updates that, sometimes not. I won't pretend a thorough understanding of the governing circumstances.

Yes, it also gets speed limit indications from the downloaded map, and it also gets updates separate from that map that are provided to give more detailed and more up-to-date information for your planned route (this only applies when you have specified an intended destination).

I've seen it update the displayed applicable speed limit in apparent response to construction zone speed signs which cannot have come from the (months-old) map database, which is my primary evidence that it sometimes does act on detected signs.

The Bruckner Expressway and Cross Bronx Expressway in the Bronx are having major construction work. Th ramps, lanes and road signs keep changing. The new map version actually gave me the correct directions. I have gotten lost a few times because the road signs and the Garmin unit had different directions.