Government getting involved.....

Floriank · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jul 02, 2007 Posts: 22

Hmm, will TomTom take part? I know what I'm thinking.....

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-16434183

MaFt · Posted: Fri Jan 06, 2012 11:49 am Post subject:

I was chatting to a local MP on twitter last night about this actually!

The biggest problem with this is no matter how well the local councils etc update the map providers, people still don't want to pay for updated maps!

The MP I was speaking to had a Garmin Nuvi that was 3 years old and she'd never once updated the maps. She was moaning that it was trying to direct her through a pedestrian area in Wakefield - the pedestrian area was added a few months ago when a new big shopping centre was opened...

I pointed her to the links for updating the maps (£30 for a single update or £60 for 4 updates per year for life) and she commented on how 'expensive' they were.

So even if Navteq, TomTom and Google's map data is bang up to date there is still the issue of that data needing to be customised for each satnav manufacturer - this can add months to the delay. Assuming we skip out that step all together and it was somehow magically possible to install the map data direct from Navteq, TomTom or Google directly then we still have the same issue - people simply do not update their maps!

The government, if they want to do something, need to highlight how important it is to update your maps! And also how important it is not to use a consumer car-based satnav for navigating an HGV...!

People simply need educating.

MaFt

IanS100 · Posted: Fri Jan 06, 2012 1:28 pm Post subject:

Even with large scale road Atlases often available for only about £5.00 people are reluctant to spend the money. When my daughter went off to Edinburgh Uni in 2002 my father offered her his prized Edinburgh Street Map which turned out to have been printed in the 1960s. He was quite surprised when she turned him down Shocked

Jeremy69 · Occasional Visitor Joined: Feb 20, 2009 Posts: 4

I agree some are reluctant to update but there is truth in the comments about expense.
First companies try to get you on a treadmill of updating. Even if it were cheaper I would not do it every couple of months.
Second errors which have been reported many times and many months or even years ago are not corrected. Users feel frustrated because even if they report an error and it is confirmed it can take months or perhaps years to put it right. Why pay to update in such circumstances?
There is a section of road near to where I was brought up which was wrong 40 years ago and is still wrong on Google map(and others) today!
To show faith I've reported it again but without much hope.

In short people may be unprepared to update but the reason is only partly expense. It is also the feel that you are not getting value for money.

mccririck · Posted: Sat Jan 14, 2012 7:48 pm Post subject:

The updates are very expensive - that is the number one reason why people don't update. It's really obvious, surely.

MaFt · Posted: Sun Jan 15, 2012 11:03 pm Post subject:

M8TJT · Posted: Sun Jan 15, 2012 11:59 pm Post subject:

Cheap????? Shocked

That's another £90 that you have to find, in cash, now, on top of the price of the satnav, making quite a large outlay. Not at all inexpensive.

mccririck · Posted: Mon Jan 16, 2012 9:37 am Post subject:

And do Garmins come with a 5 year warranty?

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