A bit of advice needed please - maps

Welllost · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jun 17, 2008 Posts: 4

Early last year I bought a Navman F20, it was the first SatNav I have ever owned and I have been pleased with it.

Since then I have changed my job and now need to do more driving, I am still pleased with the F20 except for one problem - the out of date maps. As far as I can see there doesn't seem to be any map up date coming anytime soon. Which brings me to my question; is there another make of SatNav that up dates their maps more often?, I don't mind paying that is not the issue, its just getting hold of something more up todate.

A friend of mine said he thought they all run from the same maps and as soon an update comes all makes up date, is this true?. (By the way I am not looking for anything expensive and fancy, the Navman F20 has all the features I need if it had up to date maps).

Any thoughts and advice much appreciated.

mikealder · Posted: Tue Jun 17, 2008 2:28 pm Post subject:

There are only two map providers who make updates available on a regular basis, the navigation companies have to take this data and put it into the required format for their hardware which can take time and money.
TomTom have recently been updating customers maps approx. every three months, you also get to use the MapShare technology where you can update your own map with certain information and share this with other users (if you want to). - Mike

Welllost · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jun 17, 2008 Posts: 4

mikealder · Posted: Tue Jun 17, 2008 2:58 pm Post subject:

There is no gaurantee they will keep up with regular updates, but they tend to issue them more than any other manufacturer at the moment.

The Map Share feature can be used for up to 12 months, a map update for UK typically cost £40, where as Europe would cost £75 - roads don't alter that much though to require updating every time they release a map!

If you go for one of the newer x30 devices they run slightly different maps with IQ routing built in to the map data along with the Lane Assist feature, for these maps you should add £10 to the prices mentioned above for the UK map, Europe remains the same price though (Rip Off Britain time again) - Mike

Welllost · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jun 17, 2008 Posts: 4

Welllost · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jun 17, 2008 Posts: 4

I've just received an email from Navman in response to my query about updated UK maps - the only update available is Western Europe which includes the UK at £59 . . . I'm not sure I really want to pay nearly £60 for a map update especially when most of the maps I would be getting I'm not going to use Crying or Very sad

I'm going to have to think about this, maybe get a Navman S30, thats only about £90 I think. Hmmmm not too pleased with this, surely you shouldn't have to buy a complete new SatNav every couple of years to get a map update should you?

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