2010.1 North America Professional DVDs

[wch X5]

+1. My impression is that is the same as the old one (I have 2008.1). The only overall change I noticed (other than updated roads) is that some roads are now red.

[vmwerks]

Originally Posted by wch X5

+1. My impression is that is the same as the old one (I have 2008.1). The only overall change I noticed (other than updated roads) is that some roads are now red.

The roads would have been updated... for people that drive in established areas with little change I would skip a year between DVD's.

There was alot of building in my area over the past several years. Consequently there are alot of changes year to year.

FWIW NAV is like my IPOD, I have alot of stuff in it but only listen to very little. Over the weekend I was in Chico and used it to find restaurants etc. It was one of the few times I actually needed it for nav, I primarily use it to get an ETA.

[wch X5]

Agreed - however, I think some roads that used to be yellow are now red. No big deal but it one change.

[GPSnV1]

2 DVDs don't work for me since I live in OK and twice a year go AR, AL, TN, GA, SC, NC, VA, FL.

[brian5]

Originally Posted by GPSnV1

2 DVDs don't work for me since I live in OK and twice a year go AR, AL, TN, GA, SC, NC, VA, FL.

So twice a year, you swap the DVDs? Doesn't sound like a big deal but maybe I'm missing something.

[GPSnV1]

Originally Posted by brian5

So twice a year, you swap the DVDs? Doesn't sound like a big deal but maybe I'm missing something.

Remembering that OK and AR are on different DVDs, think about the problems this creates on the first and last days of these runs because I make real-time decisions related to hotels, food, fuel based on data from the nav. And what happens if I get a warning and need to detour starting in one state and going to the other (e.g. OK/AR)?

My question is why couldn't they keep us going with a single DVD? It is really true that no updated NavTeq will work in my 2008?

[brian5]

Originally Posted by GPSnV1

Remembering that OK and AR are on different DVDs, think about the problems this creates on the first and last days of these runs because I make real-time decisions related to hotels, food, fuel based on data from the nav. And what happens if I get a warning and need to detour starting in one state and going to the other (e.g. OK/AR)?

My question is why couldn't they keep us going with a single DVD? It is really true that no updated NavTeq will work in my 2008?

OK, I get it now. There is no updated NavTeq for BMW so I think you can forget that.

It seems like BMW should have released the one DVD and the one DVD dual layer as options. That's what they did with the previous version (although the DVD dual layer came out first). From what I've seen posted on other BMW forums, there were a number of cars that problems with the dual layer format which implies that that's why they produced a DVD version as well. This 2010.1 version It has a lot more data than the previous version from NavTeq so there is no way that they have produced a single layer DVD version with all the maps...

If I can find the time, I'll see if I can figure out what I need to edit and combine to try to make one dual layer DVD of this 2010.1 version.