Correction of Mapping Errors and Missing Streets

Complete the error form located at the Garmin web site.

http://www8.garmin.com/cartography/mapSource/errorForm.html

You can also report them directly to Navteq who supplies the map data.

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

I also had the exact same problem when returning to my HOME, they have it on the other side of the street. This was due, in my case , to a switching of odd number houses from the right side of the street to the left side of the same street after the street came around a bend.

I have a third site that you can report errors to. I would imagine that it will take at least a year before the changes show up, if at all.

The additional site is: mapfeedback.teleatlas.com//index.htm

Good luck,
JeffSh
Garmin 650 user (One month)

Thanks! Exactly what I was looking for.

Be aware that TeleAtlas does not currently provide map data to Garmin.

The More people that report...thre better the maps will get..I am sure with the number of New GPS users this month alone if they all send in one Correction Things will get much better....

My Daughter-in-laws' house is shown 2 miles east from where it actually is on my SPc530. I had to get my eTrex out so I could look up the coordinates and correct the error.

Remember also that you can press on the arrow when your at the "correct" location and save it to your favorites. Easy and simple.

That's how I got the coords. into the eTrex. Stored them while in the driveway. I used the address lookup in the c530 and it came out 2 miles off. Used PoiEdit to fix it. There are a few more that I need to edit. Address lookup doesn't seem to be very accurate.
Not very cool if it gets addys wrong all the time. Maybe MS 2008 will help the problem when I get that installed.

I tried that on mine. Did not work for me. I live at the end of a cul de sac and when I tried to manually save the coordinates as my address, the next time I tried to "Go Home", my nuvi 660 was taking me on a route that was obviously wrong. By setting my address manually, it made the 660 think my house was about an 1/8 of a mile east from where I actually live, and presumably thought I lived on another street. Even after recalculating the route between half a dozen and a dozen times, it still couldn't get me home. I was waiting to hear the 660 start yelling "I SAID MAKE A U-TURN, STUPID!"

If it's like my nuvi 260, you just delete your current favorite called "home".

Then do like walleye1 says, saving it as "home"

If you leave and tell it to go home and it misses your home, your unit is defective. (assuming you had green bars the whole time)

When I was traveling I was on a relatively newly built road, (less than three years) the map was in the GPS, but the location marker had me to the west of the road as I traveled in this one section of the road.
I have "stay on road" turned off in my setup, but I wasn't even close to the road at this point. When I uploaded the track log to GoogleMaps it show the track log a s traveling on the road.
I didn't know if it was a mistake with the GPS, the map or the accuracy was poor.

Thanks for the link. I found a city name in Texas that was misspelled (Hebbronville instead of the correct spelling : Hebronville). I sent the correction to the link you provided

Hope it gets corrected in some future map update

-jgracey

If you can, send them the correct address information. They don't ask for coordinates, the street address is fine.

"Thank you for your Map Report. We appreciate your taking the time to report a problem and will investigate the need for making your suggested change as quickly as possible.

NAVTEQ releases navigation data up to four times a year to a wide range of navigation system manufacturers and vendors. Because of the time required to process the data, there is a lag between making an addition to the database and seeing that change reflected in a navigation system. Updated maps are offered for sale by your system manufacturer. We make every effort to ensure that our map data is fresh, accurate, and up-to-date by employing full-time staff in more than 130 offices around the world. We appreciate conscientious drivers such as yourself who take the time to tell us that we might need to make a change.

We welcome your future suggestions at http://mapreporter.navteq.com. Please use the on-line form whenever you encounter a discrepancy between the real world road network and your product's representation of it. We will gladly investigate your suggestions.

Thank you again for being a Map Reporter."

Best Regards,
The NAVTEQ Map Reporter Team

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Map Report submitted on: 22, Feb 2008 10:28:05:

Problem Description: Incorrect information in Garmin GPS indicates 4 Harmon Street, Worcester, MA 508-753-2603 - it took me through neighborhoods and onto a dirt road and into a residential driveway.

Thanks for the links. I've submitted missing POI errors to both Garmin and NAVTEQ for a library a few miles away that opened 4 years ago. I can understand an omission within a year or two, but 4 years seems a little too long to me. I purchased my Nuvi 760 about a month ago and have the 2009 maps installed, so they are the latest available.

It can take anywhere from 3 - 5 years for roads to get updated and even longer for POIs to be updated.