Nav data, obsolete?

[2010sho]

Does anyone know how to get the map data updated? And are we entitled to free updates for at least the first 12 months?

My new SHO that I will pick up later this week has our home in a corn field. Our street was built in 2003.

This in my opinion is ridiculous for a 1700 dollar option.

Do I have any options

 

[Racer X]

My boss' entire neighborhood in the Poconos is in the middle of a forest.

The house was built 10 years ago.

Unfortunately, the likely reality is that there is no updated map for your location. Sorry man.

 

[St Louis SHO]

Does anyone know how to get the map data updated? And are we entitled to free updates for at least the first 12 months?

My new SHO that I will pick up later this week has our home in a corn field. Our street was built in 2003.

This in my opinion is ridiculous for a 1700 dollar option.

Do I have any options

Take it back.

 

[SHO U UP]

Since buyers are able to update the Magellan, Garmin, TomTom, etc GPSs via the internet, I would think that you could update the one in the SHO since there is a USB port. Now with that being said, I believe you have to hook up your handheld GPS to the computer, but how in the **** would you update the SHO's navi now?? Hmmm....Perhaps we are able to buy a disc to load in it. That would be my guess, but I still haven't thoroughly read that manual all the way. Come to think of it, I have had my handheld for years and have never updated it.

 

[Ishodu]

In reality they only seem to ever update high populated areas, as these areas affect more people. They prolly think people who live outside of that. "Can they even read a map? Why would we need to update GPS info?"

 

[2010sho]

What is weird is I went to www.navteq.com website, the map data provider for Ford.

Their on-line web mapping interface does show my neighborhood and house.

It will be hard to get good use out of the Nav when it doesn't have your starting or finishing location in the map data

 

[MADDOG11]

If you haven't yet, create an account on syncmyride.com, download the most current software and see what happens.

 

[bill murray]

Interesting comments on the NAV system.

I think our first such system was on a 1999 Navigator and it had our home address from day one but in long distance travel we had to get a new CD every year.

On our 2010 SHO, our home address cannot be raised on the system by the exact street address although it does get us pretty close.

I suppose I can do the synchmyride thing but I hardly think tht should be necessary for a vehicle delivered in Nov 2009 when my address has been on 5 other NAV systems over the last 10 years.

Bill

 

[RonPorter]

This brings up some thoiughts I've had on factory Nav systems for awhile. Maybe some don't remember the factory offering of car phones back in the '90s, but most of those phones were obsolete with a year or two.

Same with Nav. If you really need/want Nav, why get a built-in system that will most likely be obsolete before you make the last payment? And with the cost of portable units dropping like rocks, those factory systems are way overpriced IMO.

WRT the maps. I use Streets & Trips on the laptop, and the area I work in the boonies in SE KY, many of the areas aren't listed properly. I have checked other sources like Mapquest and the like, with the same results.

Maybe some of you know the deal, but it seems like there is just one company who produces this data, and everybody gets it from them. I don't need no stinkin' Nav to find my way around a big city, but the areas where I would find it useful aren't covered.

 

[OSU 4 SHO]

Never understood people that bought the factory navigation units. They are usually 1500-3000 and are NEVER as good as the best stand alone units, and are many times the price.

 

[SHO U UP]

Never understood people that bought the factory navigation units. They are usually 1500-3000 and are NEVER as good as the best stand alone units, and are many times the price.

I can tell you i got it cause it worked for me in June while testing the 2010 SHOs in Carolina flawlessly. And the screen is huge. Plus, to me the dash looks like crap without the navi unit in it. Then there are the stand alone ones that I can't stand. False directions, poor images, cords hanging, they tell you after you missed your exit, etc. and I have used Michelin, Garmin, Magellan, and TomToms and don't like them at all. But I will be honest and say its all in personal preference really.

 

[IM Buddy8]

I can tell you i got it cause it worked for me in June while testing the 2010 SHOs in Carolina flawlessly. And the screen is huge. Plus, to me the dash looks like crap without the navi unit in it. Then there are the stand alone ones that I can't stand. False directions, poor images, cords hanging, they tell you after you missed your exit, etc. and I have used Michelin, Garmin, Magellan, and TomToms and don't like them at all. But I will be honest and say its all in personal preference really.

Garmin's work amazing.. And if you update them they will have your local parking lots in there.. All park roads alot of stuff you would never expect it to have. But I would still rather have the factory one.. I hate cords, that's why my garmin is at bottom left corner of windshield and I ran cord under dash and you can't see it. Besides in Volvo's when they pop out of dash you loose your middle speaker!!

 

[thepawn]

The Taurus nav guided me through a Home Depot parking lot as part of the route to make it shorter, that was pretty cool. lol. I've had two factory NAV's now (Toyota and Fords), a Garmin, a Magellan, two TomToms and my truck has an Alpine unit... I have to say the new ford one is really nice. "At the moment" it has just about all the wiz-bang features except the freq map updates that the TomTom has...well that and no voice changing, so Mr T can no longer be my voice guide, haha...

 

[SoonerLS]

Garmin's work amazing.

Garmins are only as good as their maps, but my Nuvi 255W gives me some, err, bizarre directions at times. When I first bought it last year, I used it for a route to a trade show at the Anatole in Dallas; it routed me down I-35 OK, but when I got to the surface streets, it routed me all the way around the block, to the back side of the hotel, then told me to go off-road to reach the destination. The only problem was that there was a 20-foot deep ravine between me and the hotel at that point...