06-06-2011, 04:18 PM
N-OS X-tasy! wrote:
After a number of incidents - the most recent being when the GPS in my wife's Lexus swore to us that the nearest Olive Garden restaurant was located in a residential district backyard - I have lost all faith in the GPS.
I do appreciate it for the onscreen map it provides, but other than that? Meh.
It's probably more of a database issue than the actual GPS technology itself. I have an in-dash nav in my Jeep and the database is a few years old, so it still lists businesses that have long been closed and obviously doesn't include recent businesses, or in some cases, new streets. I think it's tough for global companies (like Navteq) to produce timely updates that are detailed enough to catch changes at the local level.
I COULD buy an update CD for my nav, but when reading the fine print, it indicates that my city wasn't one of of the 'updated' cities.