Never given any issues whilst in NW or even when i ventured into the badlands of Yorkshire, but down here in Devon it showed me about 30 miles out to sea at one point.
Does it learn? Did same route back to the apartment today and it didn't try to take me through a housing estate today, unlike yesterday..
Dean
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ok … 1 more observation about satnav and 1 problem !
firstly, looks like previous owner had cleared info EXCEPT if I list "previous starts" when I can see everywhere the car has been well before I got to own it.
second … at some point in last couple of days I saw an option for "off road navigation" that I swear wasn't there before. so I selected it and …. now I can't go back to on-road mode. How do i fix it ? handbook implies it's automatic that it will switch once i'm on a road.
26th Feb 2018 6:20 pm
adam
Member Since: 20 Sep 2005
Location: Home and Happy
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My MY10 threw that at me once - repeatedly pressing the Nav button when the Sat Nav is enabled (not the soft button on the Home screen, the one on the dash) brings up the selection.
On one of the rare occasions I needed to use it last night it white screened on me (it has gone blank before) - had to stop, let it go to sleep and then OK.
suspect I double-hit the Nav button when on a bumpy section of road, and faced with new options just had to try it !
26th Feb 2018 6:43 pm
DSL Keeper of the wheelie bin
Member Since: 11 May 2006
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I can spend many an hour on a long boring haul trying to figure out the LR system, endless entertainment and frustration in equal measure. All the time relying on GoogMaps for the job of actually navving. Haven't used the LR satnag since last summer.
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26th Feb 2018 6:49 pm
adam
Member Since: 20 Sep 2005
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Its fairly poor - I like it when it (tries) takes you of an Mway junction and them straight back on the other side
26th Feb 2018 7:01 pm
DSL Keeper of the wheelie bin
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One of the biggest hassles I had was when I tried to ignore it and went a different way. It wouldn't accept that I wasn't going it's way and would constantly recalculate the best way to get me to it's route, not my destination. This was down central Sweden so not a lot of choices to get confused about.
The other problem I seemed to hit was it constantly over-reacting to TMC data. Example being heading up the M6/M74, few minutes delay because of whatever (that didn't actually exist) and it wanted to sent me via the A69 and A1. It couldn't comprehend that 5 minutes delay in traffic was better than an hour's worth of diversion. Completely nuts. But the final straw was the constant THERE IS SLOW TRAFFIC AHEAD announcements, even when I was sitting stationary in it. That got the TMC bit switched to Italy, sorted it out.
GoogMaps is the way.
26th Feb 2018 7:09 pm
kajtzu
Member Since: 11 Aug 2017
Location: Helsinki
Posts: 6568
I use Waze... I’ve found it better than google maps (google owns Waze...), congestion, civil works, accidents, police checkpoints, etc. can all be found with it since the data is crowdsourced.
26th Feb 2018 7:16 pm
DSL Keeper of the wheelie bin
Member Since: 11 May 2006
Location: Off again! :-)
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Will give it a go, but with Google I have all my points for trip planning in there so handy. I just have to remember to have the announcements switched on. Quite often in your country I'd realise 20 minutes after the turn off that I'd gone wrong and have some fantastic dirt roads to get me back on route.
haven't even got TMC enabled … must look into that!
to be fair to the recalculation, on my crazy cross-Manchester route it does start to agree with me after a couple of minutes and has even improved on the route. it did then let itself down because it doesn't know that roads which WERE perfectly valid are now "Bus and Access Only" but I didn't get a fine so i'll let it off.
as for the off motorway/rejoin at same junction trick … used a TomTom years ago that did exactly that on the approach to Reading so there must be some flaw in the underlying logic they all use.
and if i'd NOT used Google maps to check for issues on the run down to Devon, I would have been 30 mins quicker … none of the roadworks that Google thought had closed junctions were actually closing the junctions, but parts of the diversion Google offered WERE closed. Obviously this was all MY fault in SWMBOs eyes, but I think I've dodged the divorce for now.
26th Feb 2018 7:23 pm
DSL Keeper of the wheelie bin
Member Since: 11 May 2006
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Posts: 72779
Of course it's your fault, that's what SWMBOs know.
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