Navteq Street Level

[DaveK]

Been testing the navidrive functions. Not at all impressed with street level mapping. My old (2003) Garmin Street Pilot 3 gps with Mapsource City Navigator shows the names of all roads on screen. This navteq shows only the name of the road you are driving on.The side roads are there but no names-even on the highest zoom level.

It takes an age to calculate a route compared to the Garmin unit.

Inputting an address is a bit strange. Seems I can only input a town name first, then it decides which streets it can list for that town. If the street I want isn't listed, maybe it's under another town so I have to guess where it might be. I'm in Wirral. Some places are shown as the town being Wirral, others by their village name or suburb,eg: Moreton, Greasby. Son lives in Wallasey but navteq says it's Leasowe.

Voice spoken directions to the next turn always state "in 200 yards" when it's actually never less than 500.

No second by second countdown to a turn as with Street Pilot, which is a very useful feature in busy streets with many side roads.

Am I missing something? Looking for help from you expert navigators. If this is as good as it gets I'll continue to be guided by Loretta (SP3). Then I'll need an external antenna due to the coated windscreen.

[Randombloke]

It takes an age to calculate a route compared to the Garmin unit.

 

This is the case, even against Tom Tom 5 on an ancient iPaq, the iPaq wins.

 

Inputting an address is a bit strange. Seems I can only input a town name first, then it decides which streets it can list for that town. If the street I want isn't listed, maybe it's under another town so I have to guess where it might be. I'm in Wirral. Some places are shown as the town being Wirral, others by their village name or suburb,eg: Moreton, Greasby. Son lives in Wallasey but navteq says it's Leasowe.

 

Sometimes you get a faster result by using the first 5 characters in the post code. I do this now on the RT2 system in my Mk 1 C5.