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Originally Posted by WVGasGuy
I also love the little quirks with the Nav system...you could clearly see that the Nav maps lacked the new street, so there was white space.
After paying $1200 for the system few would find the love in this "quirk". It should be as up to date as is available, not a 2005 issue (and even then several years out of date in some cases).
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I understand the frustration and have felt it myself at various times (I'm a long-time GPS owner, and a small-time Garmin stockholder,) but it's a mapping software issue/deficiency not a NAV system issue/deficiency.
The world changes daily, whereas the world captured on those navigation CDs/DVDs is frozen in time. Discrepancies and missing data are a fact of life in any GPS system, high end or low. New disc sets are available for purchase, or should be -- they are in all the portable GPS units I use and I've read they are available for the Ford Escape Hybrid's stock NAV system as well, so I'm assuming they are for the Camry Hybrid and other NAV-equipped vehicles. The data discs generally aren't cheap. Something has to pay for the time, cost and effort of getting cities, counties and states to provide accurate data on any new roads, lanes, etc. built in the past 12-24 months.
Write to the manufacturer of the Navigation CDs. If they're like Garmin (which they may not be), they have an online form where you can report data inaccuracies/missing data and get that in their list of "to do's" in the next version of the map CDs/DVDs. For example, one year ago a new turn lane was put in near my home and my third party GPS unit (which I also use in my hybrid) kept telling me I was off-route. The next version of the mapping software? It knew about the double lane turn lane. Same with a Dairy Queen (fast food) that had morphed into McDonald's when we routed to it a year or two ago. Now? It's stored properly as a Dairy Queen.