Garmin GPS - Disappointed in the V8 update

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Disappointed in the V8 update

Charles Gillen

2006-08-17, 4:33 am

I updated my 2610 from V6 to V8 and STILL could not find the street
addresses of two relatives who moved to newly constructed residential
developments (in Indiana and New Jersey) in the last few years.

Has anyone really found addresses they could not find before V8?

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Charles Gillen -- Reston, Virginia, USA

jeffcarp

2006-08-17, 7:33 am

There are all kinds of fixes and additions in v8. I reported about 26
changes to Navteq last year. EVERY one of them that I reported by
January 2006 are fixed. Navteq has fixed resources. I've found that
they deploy those resources when customers raise issues, before they
deploy resources to general "search and destroy" missions. Take the
time to submit a correction - it is worth it.

Charles Gillen wrote:
> I updated my 2610 from V6 to V8 and STILL could not find the street
> addresses of two relatives who moved to newly constructed residential
> developments (in Indiana and New Jersey) in the last few years.
>
> Has anyone really found addresses they could not find before V8?
>
> --
> Anti-Spam address: my last name at his dot com
> Charles Gillen -- Reston, Virginia, USA

Josh Hillman

2006-08-17, 7:33 am

I ran into a situation lastnight where I wasn't able to find a street
in V7 (simply wasn't on the map), so I looked online using the V8 demo
map on Garmin's site and the street didn't exist there either. My V8
DVD should arrive today or tomorrow. Our local county GIS system
(incredibly detailed system) has the map, etc. and Google Earth shows
the street (in the image--not as a defined street). The USPS site
also recognizes the address/street without any problems.

Keep in mind that Garmin's street maps, as well as many other online
mapping systems, are based on NAVTEQ data. (http://navteq.com) and
they get their data from various sources (local government, satellite,
etc.).

Two weeks ago I was driving around looking at houses and wandered off
the V7 map onto some new streets in town. Later I looked at the
online V8 map and the new streets did show up there.

Josh

On 17 Aug 2006 00:55:51 -0400, Charles Gillen <see-my-sig@below.com>
wrote:

>I updated my 2610 from V6 to V8 and STILL could not find the street
>addresses of two relatives who moved to newly constructed residential
>developments (in Indiana and New Jersey) in the last few years.
>
>Has anyone really found addresses they could not find before V8?

Roy Hann

2006-08-28, 10:33 am

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>I updated my 2610 from V6 to V8 and STILL could not find the street
> addresses of two relatives who moved to newly constructed residential
> developments (in Indiana and New Jersey) in the last few years.
>
> Has anyone really found addresses they could not find before V8?

My house (built about 300 years ago) still can't be located by address using
V8, but I suspect a problem with the StreetPilot 2620 lookup function rather
than the database--my address is a bit unusual because there is no street
name, it's just the number of the house and the name of the village.

On the other hand I was driving around Slovenia and Croatia last week (which
are not officially covered), and just for a laugh asked the 2620 to route me
to my destination. I was surprised that it came up with a route for me, and
it even worked for about 50 miles before reporting a routing data error.

Roy

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