What is my Navigation System saying to me??

[Andrew GTD]

Thanks for the info guys. I know what your saying about the cheapest mapping data available. We left on Sunday from Vacy in the Hunter Valley to go to Rylstone. Punched the details in and it had us going back into Sydney. After the wife brought out Google Maps and we confused the GPS for a bit it was now taking us out through Dubbo. Even when we were on the Golden Valley Way 11km from Rylstone she was still telling us to make a U Turn and go nearly 250km to get to our destination. My street runs off the Golden Valley Way so I have no idea why she was taking us through Dubbo. Luckily we have half an idea of where we are going and don't rely solely on Feral Beryl for our directions.

[Hillbilly]

Dont get me started about VW mapping.

I went to Surfers from north of Brissy on Sunday.

Nav kept saying in XXXX metres turn right onto M1. First time just before Gateway Bridge. Further down kept giving turn directions to get on M1.

WTF The road is 4 lanes straight ahead all the way. Cant believe how crappy it actually is.

Even V5 is at least 18 months out of date.

Text to speech instructions are laughable Like "Stay on this road for a very long time". How far is a long time.

Doesnt tell you which street to turn off into. Name appears in MFD but am watching the road not the B****y dash readout

Is about 50m out in actual positioning IE says "Turn now" about 50m before you get to the intersection.

Caused me to drive up a blind street that was just before the one I wanted.

In contrast the TomTom in the POLO is dead on with location Maps are updated every 3 months and are up to date.

Gives great text to speech with instructions with the street name you are turning into.

And all for 5% of the price of a RNS510

YEs I know it is an integrated entertainment system but an RCD and a Tomtom would be far better.

Wish I had known it was so bad and I would have got them to remove it when I bought the car.

A friend has just bought a Mazda CX5 and it has Tomtom mapping and is as good as my one and they get free maps regularly as well.

[grtuned]

Version 6 is available.

[Idle]

Version 6 is available.

Yes, but is it worth buying? Cheapest I've seen so far is $110 — you can buy a hand-held with better maps for that.

[The_Hawk]

It is very sad that your average $100 TomTom has better more up to date maps, better features (like speed camera's and school zones) AND usually includes free map updates for a period of time (if not for life).

It's a shame that for the cost VW don't at least include free updates, even if they included it as a bonus and tied it to servicing at a dealership it would be a step forward

That said, look at the traditional alternatives from Pioneer etc. Most of them have a similar high price tag and a rather low feature set compared to the portable units as well as having the map upgrade (or loack of) issues.

I'm a little surprised that the big name portable guys (like TomTom) haven't partnered with VW (and/or all the other manufacturers) to integrate their maps into the built in solutions (hell even Pioneer, Clarion etc etc).

...one day... one day *fingers crossed*



Back on topic for a moment, I'll be interested to see how people go with the V6 maps (especially at $110). I wonder what they add over V5 and if it's worth the upgrade.

[Hillbilly]

It is very sad that your average $100 TomTom has better more up to date maps, better features (like speed camera's and school zones) AND usually includes free map updates for a period of time (if not for life).

It's a shame that for the cost VW don't at least include free updates, even if they included it as a bonus and tied it to servicing at a dealership it would be a step forward

That said, look at the traditional alternatives from Pioneer etc. Most of them have a similar high price tag and a rather low feature set compared to the portable units as well as having the map upgrade (or loack of) issues.

I'm a little surprised that the big name portable guys (like TomTom) haven't partnered with VW (and/or all the other manufacturers) to integrate their maps into the built in solutions (hell even Pioneer, Clarion etc etc).

...one day... one day *fingers crossed*



Back on topic for a moment, I'll be interested to see how people go with the V6 maps (especially at $110). I wonder what they add over V5 and if it's worth the upgrade.

None of the other makes as you mention have a price tag of $3000 though.

As I said Mazda now have Tomtom Mapping in their CX range so maybe the revolution has started LOL

[The_Hawk]

Maybe, dads Subaru still uses Sensis and is ordinary and the last Falcon I was in sucked too

Here hoping its changing... As it stands I'd rip out my Pioneer AVIC in a heart beat for a tomtom powered Nav with digital radio, ipod and support for reversing camera... If that was any good the RNS wouldn't be far behind.

[readerr0r]

I love the "for a long time" line! It's like the nav lady is off the grab a pie or something...

[Hillbilly]

I love the "for a long time" line! It's like the nav lady is off the grab a pie or something...

Yes its crap The Tomtom says Stay on this road for 77km or however far the turnoff is.

Cant be that hard to do it properly.

[kamold]

Update: v6 maps finally enable tts feature. Had an actual direction to a town this morning.

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