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VietVet'67 · #22 (**permalink**) 12-31-2005, 07:52 PM

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Originally Posted by Wolfman

I have a huge NAV system gripe. My trip to Colorado made a great acid test of the accuracy of the system. This is because I literally drive the route without a map, I've made this trip so often. The NAV system insisted that I needed to drive through Albequerque, NM., despite repeated attempts to tell the system that this was indeed 300 miles FARTHER than the actual trip distance, which isn't on any unknown roads, even in the "low detail" areas. Only when it could no longer find any other podunk little roads along the trip to turn me off of the actual route, did it finally give up, and route the correct one. My Garmin routes this trip flawlessly, and I don't even have to screw with those stupid CD's, as it has the entire U.S. map loaded into it's CF card. By the time I got home, I gave Fords "NAV" system an "F". If it wasn't for the fact that the thing was forced on me to get the hybrid computer, I would just a soon not have the NAV system at all.

Bryan - I am with Rich (Pravus Prime) on this one – and sorry you have had such a bad experience with your NAV system.

Just this past summer we took a trip from Atlanta to Williamsburg, DC, NYC and back. Put the address for each hotel and POI along the way and were guided to the front door each time. When we were leaving from NYC I just hit the 'Home' button and didn't look at a map once. I am a map nut so I was checking things along the way up and the NAV system took the best route each time. We would have never gotten thru the DC and NYC roads without it. Never tried to turn us onto a one-way street and one of the best things I liked was say when we came up on a multi route exit, it would tell us to 'stay in the right/left lane' even if the split were multiple.

I know that NAVTEQ makes the map data CDs that are supplied with the FEH, and they are probably the biggest supplier of map data out their. If you look at 'Google Maps' it says data by NAVTEQ. The operating system software for the NAV unit is outsourced by Ford to another company. It would say (after looking at the NAVTEQ site) that NAVTEQ are also the ones that have the software on the CDs to compute the route plans in the system.

I just went to their page that shows a demo (Everyday Navigation) and from what I gathered there that this is true. So it is probably a NAVTEQ problem and not Ford.