WOW Updated navigation maps
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HD GPS is not bad. The company that supply's the MAPs sucks.
Buy an update it is out of date when you buy it by 3 or more years. When I fell for it the update failed to show road work that had already been done for 5 years near my home and it was on major state roads.
My 2011 Gramin shows better and far more updates .
Buy an update it is out of date when you buy it by 3 or more years. When I fell for it the update failed to show road work that had already been done for 5 years near my home and it was on major state roads.
My 2011 Gramin shows better and far more updates .
Google maps will fail to navigate if you're too far out of service as it will fail to download maps and map-related data. In those cases it's good to have a fallback. You can pre-download google maps, but it's nice not to have to deal with that. This will probably never ever happen to someone who sticks to major state highways and interstates, but it happens pretty commonly if you ride remote back roads in the westernmost states.
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Joined: May 2022
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From: CA
You can download the maps, but some information - like speed limits, some lane guidance information, and places (like gas stations, including their fuel prices) - is always downloaded on demand. If you don't have connectivity you won't have this information with just cached maps. The cached maps will get you there though. However, google maps is pretty good about loading them in advance, even 100 miles off into nowhere after several hours without service it still has accurate info. But this may only apply when using it for route directions as otherwise it would have no idea what to pre-fetch. It's pretty rare to entirely lose the mapping in google maps, but it does happen when on smaller roads here out west. In those case it's not bad to have the HD builtin to fallback on, just to not run right past a turn and have to circle back, but its nav is frankly terrible. I've tried it maybe 5 times and in each case it was just giving completely screwy directions, and in one case got me going north instead of south - because it had decided on some detour loop for some reason and when I skipped that it kept insisting on routing me back to it. Completely idiotic.
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Joined: Nov 2022
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From: Texas
Navigation issue
Went to use the navigation on my 2015 Electraglide Ultra Classic Low. The icon was everywhere on the map EXCEPT the trail it should have been on. Has anyone had this issue and what was the fix? Thanks
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