> >Right now if I punch in the street address for my church it sends me > >1.5 miles down the road. Reason for this is that 6 years ago they > >redid all the street addresses for E911. Before they were a > >mess. If I put in the old street address it finds it dead on. Just > >this past summer I saw a van from TeleAtlas in the area doing some > >remapping. So I expect some change in the next couple of years.
This sounds still better than the Nav system that came in my wife's 2007 Ford. I believe these are made by Pioneer. We were going to visit family over the holidays and my cousins had moved to a new house that we hadn't been to before. This is just outside of Harrisburg, PA. I sometimes turn on GPS systems before I need them, just to see how they are at basic navigation. I programmed in the address, since I didn't know exactly where they were and once we were on 83N, off of 695, I turned it on and it immediately told me to get off at the next exit, which is nuts. I don't want to take MD and PA back roads for the next 100 miles. I canceled the navigation and tried it again a bit later and it still was bugging me to exit, which I knew was wrong. Finally, as we were getting near, I took one of the exits. It was a nice drive through a quaint, small PA town, but after about 4 miles, I crossed the exit off 83N I really wanted. This was the same system I tried to program to take the Tappan-Zee bridge coming back from NE, and gave up after about a half-hour of fighting with it (in the driveway of course). It's breathtaking how god awful this GPS system is. I'm glad I bought the car used and wasn't stupid enough to spend the $2,000 the Nav option cost new. ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
