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Remember, most of the map services get their data from the same place. Did you check other map systems?

I know that a little, but important, cut through road near me took YEARS to show on ANY map. Still isn't on some printed maps last I checked.
 
I'd love to see in Google Navigation my Speed and ETA.
How do you make bar on the bottom of the phone stay light up longer then few seconds. It's hard to use it when it's dark.
 
estobaughn said:
Looking up on google navigation, didn't find a street or even show it on the map that had been there for years. I was made a fool of with my fancy phone. get it together google your slacking. and don't gimme none of the beta bull.
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i'm guessing here, but you look like a fool by without needing googles help..

Google map data is provided by TeleAtlas.. "Google" doesn't make the maps
http://maps.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=7103
Last i checked, i also didn't pay for google maps...

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-=< aaron >=-
 
I did check on another map system, vzw navigator, and the street showed up. Now as far for me not paying for it that is also true but I wasn't paying for vzw navigator also. but that never told me to go down to wrong block. hopefully goog fixes this issue relatively soon. I use my gps daily. I paint houses and regularly have to go do estimates on othere houses. and
I am not thinking of shelling out a couple hundred on a standalone GPS that I have to update every few years.
 
You didn't pay for vz navigator ??
VZNav is power by Navteq, so that would explain the discrepancy
Personally, i always carry two gps units.. The standalones you can get for a cheap as $100.. I keep one gps with navteq maps, and another that has TeleAtlas maps..

What was your address in question, if you don't mind sharing.. Curious to see what my tomtom does with it ..

-=< aaron >=-
 
OxJIaMoH said:
I'd love to see in Google Navigation my Speed and ETA.
How do you make bar on the bottom of the phone stay light up longer then few seconds. It's hard to use it when it's dark.
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Welcome to the AF forums and enjoy you visits !! :cool:

Maybe it would help answer your question ..if people knew what phone you are using
 
quixand said:
Really tired of these stupid posts.

If you are going to say something like "Navigation is Horrible"...preface it with.."MY"...cause the Navigation on this phone is stellar.

I've used it about 30 times since I got it, and it works flawlessly. Just as good as my Garmin.

It is YOUR opinion that the Nav sucks, because you probably don't know what you're doing, or how to fix it. Or..you got a phone that may have an issue with it. Which is rare, not common.
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Did you write the navigation program? You seem to take this very personaly.
 
Watashi said:
Only problem I have with it is the voice and it's inability to pronounce spanish names...I live in San Diego where 90% of street names are a spanish words.

Rancho is not RONCO
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LOL! I was in a SoCal area with "Rancho" in the name and heard the same thing.

But it did get some other ones right - can't remember what they were, but Rancho was the only one it choked on...
 
It's clearly stated that nav is in beta...beta means "not done yet, but ready for folks to try." So you should set your expectations based on that information.

I would definitely not ditch a Garmin if I already had one...in fact, if I had a Garmin I'd probably keep using it. Since I don't I'll use the Droid, but won't expect it to be perfect...and won't rely on it for "mission critical" directions w/out any backup.

What I wish they had was a feedback option built into the app...
 
Just a few for now...things like:

They have this cool shortcut feature to add navigation shortcuts to your home page. But - you have to manually type (or copy/paste from a contact) the address. There's no option to open your contacts from the shortcut tool to select the address you want.

When you're in contacts you can long-press on an address for a context menu...that menu includes a bunch of stuff, but inexplicably, not any navigation options.

If you view the contact and long-press an address, the only option is Map, again, no Navigate To. You have to Map the address and then you can select to navigate to it. Press, press, press, press...ad infinitum.

And there is no option to create a navigation shortcut on home page from a contact, or even to make it a navigation favorite.

You can select a point on a map and see its address. You can't however, create a contact using that address automatically, and can't copy the address to the clipboard to paste into an contact.

There's a lot of cool stuff you can do, but I keep bumping up against these missing refinements among others...really looking forward to future updates...
 
Yeah! Screw Google and their totally free real time cell phone navigation app! How dare they not do everything and have the exact same accuracy as a $200 GPS with $100 per year map updates does! What a ripoff!!!1

:rolleyes:
 
Nidisa said:
Doesn't make sense actually....I have a Jabra SP700, and when I navigate with my Droid the directions come through it just fine.
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Actually, the fact that it DOES work with the SP700 may give us a clue why it doesn't work with a normal BT headset. The SP700 supports A2DP protocol for stereo music, most std BT headsets don't, they support Headset and Handsfree profiles that only require lower quality SOC protocol.

If the Navigation application is only designed to output 'stereo' audio, either through its own speaker or headphone jack, then it probably uses A2DP protocol...

We need to get our requests into the "Car Home" application developers to get them to change this!

Tom
 
I used Google Nav to go geocaching today.

I found 9 out of the 11 caches I looked for, using only the Google Nav on my G1. The other 2 were not quite where they were supposed to be, but did find them after a little non GPS searching.

Why do I post this ??? Well in order to find geo caches you need to get within a couple feet of them. Most are in forested places in the area I searched. The are also camoed so they blend in to surroundings.

Now if the GPS, maps or Google Nav was as bad as most people say they are, this would not be possible to do. I have posted elsewhere on the forums that you need to disable cell location and on use GPS location for accurate fix. This is what I did today and the evidince is there to back it up. It didnt take any longer for a sattilite lock as some say.

Take it as you will, just posting my findings.
 
I'd like to add one thing to your list- no compass. You have to walk like half a block before the blue dot tells you which direction you're going. It would be nice to have it point out which direction you're facing while you're standing still.
 
Remember this a beta program. I am sure Google is reading our comments. They are smart enough to use other people's ideas to make money.
 
I didn't pay for vz navigator cause I was on the premium plan so they waive the $10 a month charge. And in the end I am paying over $2400 for my 2 year plan I expect it to be good. And I can just give the street which is cross creek dunedin fl
 
estobaughn said:
I didn't pay for vz navigator cause I was on the premium plan so they waive the $10 a month charge. And in the end I am paying over $2400 for my 2 year plan I expect it to be good. And I can just give the street which is cross creek dunedin fl
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Heh. You're paying $2400 for your 2 year plan so you can use your phone and have data access, not so you can have a 100% accurate GPS navigation system. The GPS is just a free bonus. It's the exact same amount of money you would pay for any other smartphone with data access on Verizon. There's currently only one phone on Verizon that has Google Maps/Navigation, and that's the Droid. Would you be complaining if you were paying the exact same amount for another phone that didn't have Google maps? Sheesh.

That being said, Maps and Navigation works great in major cities. I live in Phoenix, and I have yet to have it give me an incorrect address. I imagine it's the same in other big cities. The address you gave is kind of on the outskirts of Tampa, FL, so I'm not surprised the info isn't 100% up-to-date (although it probably will be soon, unlike with a standalone GPS where you have to wait a year to buy updated maps).

Anyway, I guess I just don't understand what you are complaining about since you are paying the same amount of money as you would have been with any other smartphone. It's not like Google Maps costs extra.
 
How about a dimmer on the display so you can use it in the car at night and not be blinded by your own Droid. Turn down your high beams!

D.
 
I have not had problems with the fix, the problem is that twice it took me to a street near the waypoint rather than to the actual address that it was supposed to. Once this was to a hotel and after it took me past my exit it said I arrived, the hotel was next to me off the parkway, I had to drive down a whole exit and return. Garmin seems to navigate to an address rather than the nearest street to a waypoint.
 
Not true; perhaps you don't know that no software map, whether it's from Navteq or Tele-Atlas, has true street numbers coded in; they simply divide the blocks into some sections and spread the numbers evenly. Therefore, if you have a long, almost empty lot, the street numbering is more than approximate, but the block is correctly located.

Often, my Garmin nuvi 770 will take me to the wrong parallel road as well, since Garmin's street maps use 'rubber-banding' to the street, rather than the true satellite location (but that can be turned off by switching to the pedestrian or offroad mode)... Garmin 60Cx, on the other hand, will show that the topo map has an offset, often by 50-100 feet.

So, any user unfamiliar with the principles of map making will always find something to complain about...
 
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