Garmin Needs Map update

Navtec is the source for all Garmins..and it is the Same maps that GOOGLE uses. If you find errors Navtec has a reporting site for errors. I know that the maps in my garmin are Much newer than 10 yrs as there are roads in it that were not there 3 yrs ago..

You can report errors here.

http://mapreporter.navteq.com/dur-web-external/secured/submi...

i got my 350 over 2 years ago.
i bought the 2008 update a few months ago.
i still see a taco bell listed around the corner from me that hasnt been there for 6 years.
the building is gone and is now a pizza hut.
same thing with an acme food mart that hasnt been there for 4 years.

i havent seen any noticable difference in any
map yet after the update that i bought for $80.

A friend of mine lives in a neighborhood in Visalia,California thats 3 years old and neither Garmin OR Google have heard of it.

How hard it must be to be on top of all the building changes in the world, the roads, the Highways, the businesses. I have had my Nuvi since Black Friday of this year. And have found many little mistakes here and there. One of them is of the local town airport.....note dont use the maps as a IFR navigator....LOL the airport has changed location 6 miles east....There is noway they will be able to keep up with the changes. Best you can do is report the changes to the above Navteq site.

They may use the same map from Navteq. However, they differ in the way it calculates the coordinates base on the address. Google map can locate certain address that the Nüvi can't find, even with the 2008 map.

There is no way that a GPS unit that can fit into your hand can match the computing power of a server or even a laptop.

When I used Tomtom nav 5, I had it route me to compusa and it put me in the middle of a residential neighborhood 5 miles away. Then again, Google did the same thing several times I tried to get a route in this town.

I would reiterate the NAVTEQ map correction site, where you can report road changes and POI changes. If you're serious about putting corrections in frequently you can sign up for an account to track them.

http://mapreporter.navteq.com

I've noticed 13 serious road issues (no longer exist; one way; wrong name) in the past two weeks in my town alone. This included things like routing the wrong way down one way streets. Google also had every single issue on their maps/routing as well. The plain fact is if we want the maps to be good we'll have to help NAVTEQ correct them, even though we then have to pay to get our changes back on our own device. :/

My main wish is that Garmin would offer updates more frequently. From my understanding NAVTEQ releases new maps monthly or semi-monthly and it would be much nicer to get updates that frequently by subscription for perhaps $8-$10 a month. It can't take Garmin an entire year (or 3) to process a NAVTEQ map to work on their units can it?! Does anyone have more insight into that process and why they can't offer things more frequently?

As there is a computer in every home and a cell phone on everyone’s belt, GPSr will be in everyone’s car. To remain competitive in the GPSr market, providing accurate and frequent map updates will be a must for GPS manufactures. TomTom already is offering consumer generated map updates. It will not be long before others follow. The first company to offer a functional, reliable and affordable GPSr along with frequent, FREE, map updates will corner the market in a hurry.

I wonder how that Tom Tom customer update map thing works. Do they verify the inputs? Seems like a lot of work. How do people know others aren't putting in bad info either through ignorance or mal intent?

Interesting in view of this discussion:
http://www.newsweek.com/id/68909

I agree that better map updates would give them a better edge. I read somewhere that Magellian has a somewhat newer NavTeq map and is more accurate than the 2008 on the Garmins.

Between Garmin and Nokia, Navteq should be in pretty good cash shape and able to get more people working on Corrections. I think also with More and more people getting Garmins...the maps will get more and more accurate,. And more people will want them..
On another Note..I see Google it letting people correct things on there maps, that should also help.

I agree. My Garmin shows the enty and exit to the highway nearest my home as the old one from a year ago, but my subdivision is relatively new, and it takes me home accurately.
Unfortunately, I just got it, so I haven't found many errors. It is disheartening to have found a couple so soon after opening the box, though.

My Nuvi actually tries to route me on a road that was supposed to be built last year and enver got constructed. In this case, the map is "newer" than the reality. (The local homebuilders never completed that part of the subdivision.)

I don't think (using current technology anyway) that we will ever have a unit that has maps as updated as we would like. I have had a TomTom and now have a Nuvi. I took the TomTom back because I found the maps for my local area to be extremely inaccurate. There are problems with the Navteq maps, to be sure, as well. If I find something wrong on the Garmin, I usually check maps.google.com or mapquest or some other site that uses Navteq maps to see if the issue is there, too. Then, for fun, I use Google Earth, which uses the TeleAtlas maps, to see if they have it right.

.. a continuation of a street and it seems that Navteq has updated it. It is in Google maps, which makes me believe that if you report it it will be soon put there... after checking of course. 2008 map updates for my nuvi350 though does not have this extension.

But my point is, that they do it in timely manner. After all it is a vast country we have.

Oh... and by the way Expedia or Mapquest -- both of them run by Microsoft have really, really old maps compared to the NAVTEQ maps.

I have seen some pretty old roads that are still not on the 2008 update. Some of them I submitted as errors years ago, but they still haven't been corrected.

I don't have the exact quote but the standard response that I received from Navteq when I submitted an update was that the maps tend to be updated much more quickly in major metropolitan areas where they actually have people out driving the roads checking for errors. In more rural areas, they are more dependent on municipalities actually updating the official maps and actually getting those updated maps out to map making folks.