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cybele · #7 (**permalink**) 01-14-2004, 01:33 PM

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Originally posted by JackC+Jan 14th 2004 @ 12:42 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (JackC @ Jan 14th 2004 @ 12:42 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'>Report discrepencies to whom? The dealer seemed uninterested. Their response was "Sometimes, the systems have to be calibrated..." - I told them that "calibration" does not lable streets backward (though 911 systems might!) and with numbers that they haven't had for at least 8 years, nor does "calibration" put streets back that are missing from the map altogether. [/b]

Yes, I though maybe the software manufacturer would allow you to submit alerts when information was incorrect. Sometimes I get these silly ideas into my head that the dealer service people really care about the products they service.

But I think you've hit it on the nose, I don't think it's a calibration issue, it's a database problem. The GPS can tell you were you are on the planet - but not what street you're on!

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Originally posted by JackC@Jan 14th 2004 @ 12:42 PM
I have checked the Denso site, but don't (with a rather fast look) find anything obvious about how to report "discrepencies".

I looked there too. Denso probably doesn't manage their own map database, I'm guessing they purchase it from someone else. I don't have the NAV, so I can't read the manual to find out if it states who manages the database.

I have an 'analog nav' in my car (a Thomas Guide for Los Angeles and Orange Counties) and have found errors in that as well. There is a way to let them know that there are errors and when I find them, I used to do that (but my map is now 11 years old). I have also seen errors on MapQuest and Yahoo!Maps and there are ways to submit corrections to them. I just figured there'd be some way to do that with the onboard NAV, you know, an email address or something.

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Originally posted by JackC@Jan 14th 2004 @ 12:42 PM
As for "misguiding" you - that probalby won't happen. I have put my "wrong" address in as my home and it gets me everywhere pretty well - though I am generally a better navigator than it will ever be! If the current position is at least right, guidance will be reasonable - in general.

See, I'm one of those people who usually adapts to the technology presented to me (like using a right-handed mouse left-handed because I can't get the company I work for to give me a left-handed or neutral mouse), but I couldn't wrap my brain around either inputting the wrong info for my home or letting it stew on the fact that I said I was starting from one place when I was actually a little ways down the street.

But mostly, if I ordered the package with the NAV, I would have ended up with gobs of other stuff that was truly useless to me (homelink, bluetooth, etc.).

On the whole, the system is pretty **** cool and there are plenty of people I still recommend it to.

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Too true.