A421 classed as Motorway in latest map set

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Has anyone else come across a situation where A roads have recategorised as Motorways and the subsequent issues that causes?

I have just applied the latest map and the A421 between the A1 and Milton Keynes has been classified as a motorway, this means that as I normally have avoid Motorways set instead of taking me along this road I get shunted off on minor village roads that run parallel or nearby which doubles the journey time. If I didn't know the route I would be driving off into the wide blue yonder.

[sussamb]

Don't have avoid motorways set so wouldn't be aware of this, but you can report map errors to Navteq who supply the maps to Garmin http://www.navteq.com/

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It's been reported but apparently it *might* be changed on the next quarterly update. Really don't know how they accidentally changed an 'A' road to a Motorway. Sloppy mapping quality assurance, nothing should have changed for this road when the last map update came out - isn't new or anything.

Things like this make me wonder if buying a Garmin was such a good idea.

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Garmin get their maps from navteq, as do others. Doesn't matter which make you buy ... occasionally there are errors, just like there used to be on paper maps

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