anyone else have the issue with the POI not being where the map says they are? Mine all seem to be down the road about 1000 feet or so... not a big deal, but annoying!

Thanks in advance

[realbob]

anyone else have the issue with the POI not being where the map says they are? Mine all seem to be down the road about 1000 feet or so... not a big deal, but annoying!

Thanks in advance

Yes it happens a lot! GPS will be more perfect in a couple years! We should start an open community GPS project, would be much more precise and usefull!

Sad to report TA maps show same problem with bogus hwy directions (EB, WB, SB, NB) in North Carolina as reported for other states. So bad it's unusable. Real shame because the 3D graphics and extra lane info is a real plus, but no way can you rely on those misleading contradictory direction indicators. This really seems like a beta or even alpha release. Hopefully a set with a fix will come around soon.

[realbob]

Hi anyone would have this available?

The latest up-to-date premium (extended) points of interest database for North America with over 11 750 000 up-to-date POIs, including: United States, Canada and Mexico.

Released: 2009 Q1
File size: 435 MB


EDIT: Also all maps for 2009.Q1 has been released on Navteq website, NA and Europe!!!
Will wait release here!

Thanks!

not sure if anyone is seeing the same "issue" between NTQ2 and NTQ4. I was using the Q2 maps and was getting 1hr 30m for the route to work, which actually takes about 1hr 10m... with the exact same route I am getting 2hrs 05m with NTQ4 maps... anyone able to explain whats wrong? is there something I can do to fix this because Q4 has a specific road that is new in the area (Maryland) that Q2 does not.

Just a guess but it's likely that there have been adjustments in the average speed for certain roads that are causing the change in trip time your seeing. The real question is which one is more accurate. If the route is the same then my theory would seem to be the most likely explanation.

[varso]

@Darwynz

I am glad that finally someone has the same issues I have. I live in Canada and the routing is so bad with Q2 that I could not use the software. I was hoping Q4 would solve my problem (Q4 N/A for Canada yet). I did a lot of testing and it turns out that speed limits on many roads are missing so the software assumes something like 20 Mph for these roads. The highways have the right speed limits. So if there is a highway near to reach your destination, it will tend to use it as the quickest way to reach destination. It is so bad that it renders the software useless.

I was amazed to see nobody complained about that. In my region ALL ROADS but highways don't have speed limits.

I tried TeleAtlas maps 2008.10. The routing is good but in the country, the maps are so out of date and too many streets with no names.

I am stucked between no routing but good maps and good routing but no roads/road names.

I would be happy to just complain about the # of POIs between different versions.

Does anybody have a basemap that works perfectly together with the Navteq maps for NA?

E.g. for the Florida Keys the shore line is not correct (almost not existing). With TA maps the shore line is correct.

Is there a special basemap for NT maps?


TheGrumbler

Does anybody have a basemap that works perfectly together with the Navteq maps for NA?

E.g. for the Florida Keys the shore line is not correct (almost not existing). With TA maps the shore line is correct.

Is there a special basemap for NT maps?


TheGrumbler

Basemap is not map provider dependent! The current basemap (basemap8) for amigo and igo8 can be found on this website:

"http://volny.cz/sstopar/mio_mapy_igo8_3.html".

So are other content folder like maps, etc.

cheers

Nextasy,

Is there just one basemap for the world? I don't see any North America maps on that page. Am I just missing them?

Thanks.

Nextasy,

Is there just one basemap for the world? I don't see any North America maps on that page. Am I just missing them?

Thanks.

To the best of my knowledge there is just one basemap. Infact, there has always been just one basemap!

You only need the basemap (if):
- to start igo or amigo if there are no other maps in the map folder
- if you are planning a cross-border trip from one country to another

otherwise the basemap is not really needed.

cheers

I was amazed to see nobody complained about that. In my region ALL ROADS but highways don't have speed limits.

Nah, this has been reported since the days of Miomap 3.2 and 3.3. We just gave up complaining.
You might have noticed that TA maps for Canada have wrong speedlimits if you choose to display them (converted mi->km) so the highway sp limits show 160km/h.

Interestingly enough, Navigon uses NT maps (2008Q3 is what I have) which one would believe are similar to the iGo ones. But I get the correct ETA with them as opposed to iGO (my problem is almost 100% with "short" routes).

To make it more painful, we don't seem to get Canada 2009 for anything than TomTom and Garmin...but I can't bring myself to use any of them because of the fugly primitive interface and ridiculous routing (esp TT7).

Oh well...Saturday rant over....

[varso]

@ipse

I never checked the MioMap posts. I tried Garmin, Finean, iGuidance, TomTom and a few more... Over the years, I learned to NEVER use TA maps for Canada and I always had good ETA results with ALL NT maps regardless of software. Some products were producing better routings then others but overall it was similar. To me it was mostly a choice of interface/features. When IGO started to produce NT maps for Canada, I decided to try it and I was baffled. IGO has a great interface and superb features but without good routing, the software is nice to look at but useless on the road.

For the moment, I stick to Finean and iGuidance. To me, good routing is more important than pretty interface. Hopefully the newer NT maps will be corrected. I do not know why IGO has bad NT maps. All other NT based products are good.

I will look at Navigon. Thanks for your rant... Now I know I am not crazy.

nextasy,

Good info, I've only ever seen one basemap on my device.

So, does the basemap determine the coastal outlines of countries, or is that determined by the country or state maps? The Florida Keys are definitely messed up. Just curious if that's a Florida map problem or is it somewhere else.

I saw a similar problem in Brazil last year where the maps showed some roads in the ocean. I've checked the new maps at that location and it's fixed.

Thanks.

I'm going to be travelling to Hawaii, could anyone please comment which map would be the better choice for that state, the Q4 Teleatlas or the Q4 Navteq? Thank you!