Navigation Update

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Originally Posted by AlexK

Sometimes it's faster than that - I submitted a few "corrections" to Navteq in the past and they updated their map database appropriately after approximately 6 months. Of course it doesn't work that fast every time but at least I get the changes on my portable device faster (Garmin and TomTom release map updates several times a year). I wish BMW would stop screwing around and would simply sign a contract with Garmin or TomTom and let them handle the navigation portion of iDrive (including the user-upgradeable maps)...

Tomtom IS "teleatlas"!!! Tomtom got into a bidding war with Garmin, and tomtom won.

There are two vendors for map data in the USA:

Teleatlas
navteq

BMW chose wrong.

Google does their own mapping, AFAIK- although they had previously used teleatlas, my guess is they grew tired of the incompetence...

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