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Originally Posted by Brian-bmw
I posted several map update requests to Tele Atlas last year when I got my 2010 disks. I have posted similar updates on NavTeq's site, and NavTeq has always been responsive and typically fixed the problem with the next data release. To date, this is the only response from Tele Atlas that I have received from three or four submittals.
Here is my beef:
1) Tele Atlas took almost a year to respond.
2) Tele Atlas did not fix the problem.
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I have had the opposite experience with NAVTEQ - I have been reporting the same error over an over (a reasonably serious one - telling people to "turn left" across a divided highway into a one-way street that goes the other way) since at least 2006, and it has been completely ignored.
I have no experience with TeleAtlas on BMW (You may have seen my "2011 maps - worthwhile?" post here in this forum). However, TeleAtlas is the map provider for TomTom (and IIRC is actually owned by TomTom). They may rely on modern TomTom devices getting "map share corrections" from other TomTom users, which somewhat reduces the need for rapid updates to the base maps.
In the error you reported, you say the nav tells you to "go straight" when not necessary. I've seen a large number of those all over the country with the NAVTEQ maps. It usually means "Don't take the next Interstate exit".
I'm not sure how much control a map provider has over this particular spoken instruction - it would seem to come from the routing algorithm in the opeating software, not the map disc. It is certainly possible that that software could interpret maps from 2 different vendors differently. This might be something BMW would need to address in the nav software. It seems unlikely that they'd do that at this late point in the MK IV's life.