Missing roads and addresses...

[mathguru]

Okay. I have a slight problem... I just bought the M5 handheld, and it supposedly has all the current maps. Unfortunately, though, there are neighborhoods that have been around for at least three years that just aren't in the detailed maps!! I noticed this while visiting my in-laws in Orange Park, FL. It was rediculous... there was a Super Walmart that didn't show up that had been there for at least five years, and their neighborhood, which was only three years old, wasn't in there either. It just showed it as empty land. So my question is this: I saved several paths to their house... is there anyway that I can save those as bonafied streets so Betty can use those in route calculations? OR... even better... are there free updates that I can get, seeing as how the addresses should be in there anyway?

[Bokkie]

Mathguru,

the maps that navteq produce and release are only as good as the reports they get about new developments. You can go online to navteq and report the omission but it may take a year or so until the next scheduled release before you'd see them. Unfortunately it's not possible to patch the maps as Garmin release major versions of the maps only so you can't hotfix on demand.

As for routing that's another problem. The database of routable street addresses is not as acuurate as the maps and you'll find some things cannot be routed to because they are not in the database, or if they are routable, the database and map do not match each other 100%. the information might well be in there but you sometimes have to use 'creative' searches to find it.

To route to a patch of 'wasteland' as it were, you can allocate a waypoint to it. On the M5, you get the iQue 3600 technique of being able to route via an address contact record. when you reach no-mans land consult the paper map and see if it contains early map decorations of dragons and sea monsters! A compass mya then become useful - and a pioneering spirit and gung-ho resolve will take you the rest of the way!:D

[mathguru]

Okay. I guess that I'll just have to make do with that round about method. Thanks for the input! I'm tellin you though... there should be a way for us to at least manually put it in there. It's pretty embarrasing that Yahoo maps has it and my little Betty does not. Do you know if they have any other software that is supposed to be more accurate than the one that Betty came with?

[Bokkie]

Someone like Jonas can comment on TeleAtlas, and if bozi00 comes back online, he can comment on the latest status of Nav'N'Go which is a Hungarian application that ties in to TeleAtlas. Go to their website for a look at their excellent screen shots. It's vapourware at the moment (bozi00 can comment) as he knows what's going on. If Nav'N'Go works as good as it looks, it will be seriously good piece of software.

But again, it all depends on who has the most up to date maps available.

Edit: I forgot to mention that Nav'N'Go is intended for use with BT devices? It might not work on the integrated M5. Again, bozi00 can elaborate.

[jonasolof]

The best way to tell is to use online mapservices based on the map providers you're interested in .

I don't know of any Tele Atlas based service that covers the US though.

General judgments are rather irrelevant when it comes to local conditions.

[bozi00]

Originally posted by jonasolof
I don't know of any Tele Atlas based service that covers the US though. http://www.multimap.com/map/browse.cgi?lat=30.166&lon=-81.701&scale=25000&icon=x