Navigation Update

[ukwildcat]

Originally Posted by Penguin

Mine has been so poor that I now use my Garmin on long trips, rather than the built-in BMW Nav.

On paved state highways in Utah, it consistently computed my estimate arrival time and travel time assuming an average speed between 20-25 mph.

Using the find function, find something in Van Horn, TX. Click to route yourself there, and you will find it now has the same street address, but says you are going to Kent, Tx, another town about 37 miles away. So when you are traveling, the question becomes is it really in Van Horn or in Kent?

In Idaho it told me to turn left on a non-existent road on a remote highway location, where there was no road in either direction for miles.

Here's a specific I wrote down. Find a shell station at exit 193 going east on I-40 and tell it to route you to it. It will not tell you to take the appropriate exit, because the map places it under the crossover road between the east and westbound interstate lanes. So you miss your fuel stop.

Over the past year on trips in the West there have been literally dozens of instances like this.

Ah. Good point - I had forgotten on that. Yes - it's ETA times are pure fiction.

It seems to be absolute FANTASY FICTION on local roads.
It's more like SCIENCE FICTION on highway trips (possible but unlikely).

I don't give it any prizes for its POI database - it's terrible. It does have a lot of what I'm looking for, but yes - sometimes it will put it in an.. odd.. town, even though the address is correct (so I get there fine).

I've never used it to GUIDE me to fuel - I just have the icon turned on, and it seems correct, but who really knows, as I get ~500 miles on a tank on the highway.

It would be nice if it were like an aircraft.. "Show me airports." "Oh. I mean only airports I can actually LAND at."

I keep hoping there's a software update or something.