| Skramblr 2007-10-03, 10:33 pm |
| Yup - That's a bug with DirectRoute V3.
http://www.mtgc.org/robertlipe/DirectRoute3/
Magellan knows about it. They've known since it was released and complaints
started rolling in (I'm not the only one who complained). Their response?
They said they'd pass that on to the engineers. But that was a long, long
time ago. So I guess the choose not to fix a MAJOR bug in the software. Good
thing I kept Version 2 around for traveling the highways.
-Skramblr
"David Shaffer" <macusernow@comcast.net> wrote in message
news:4702F61F.9020504@comcast.net...
> OK, I've had the new v3 maps on the receiver for a month or so and really
> appreciated the newer data on the maps themselves compared to v2.
>
> Little did I know I had another problem lurking. Or maybe I haven't done
> some installation step correctly -- not sure.
>
> Anyway, had the opportunity to drive into New York City last week, a great
> test for the GPS unit and directroute.
>
> Now always before with the older version, each step in a route created by
> the software would show up on the bottom of the screen with a text
> description, an arrow indicating any turn direction, and a distance to
> that variation in the course ... as well as a total distance remaining to
> the destination.
>
> Not last week. Often the screen looked the same, but he text description
> was gone. Vanished. Nothing there at all. Normally, it would have said
> something like "I-80 exit 133 to SR 53" and there would be an arrow
> showing the exit turn direction and an indicator how far to the exit.
>
> But all I had on the screen -- often, maybe half the time -- was the turn
> arrow and distance. No indication of the name of the exit or street at
> all.
>
> I should that was not particularly helpful traveling in New York City.
>
> Anybody know anything about this? To the best of my knowledge, all other
> settings had been just as they always were before when I got better
> information on the route screens.
>
> Would sure like to have that back...
>
> - Dave
>
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