2019 Map Update
10-17-2018, 07:58 AM
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2019 Map Update
Just an FYI, I got a letter yesterday announcing the 2019 map update. New low price of $99... Down from the 2018 reduced price of $139. (normal price was $159....)
Maybe if very few people buy the update, they will lower the price again...lol I'd pay $39, just to be backed up for those times you don't have cell coverage...
Maybe if very few people buy the update, they will lower the price again...lol I'd pay $39, just to be backed up for those times you don't have cell coverage...
10-17-2018, 08:04 AM
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That's the lowest price I've seen....I doubt it will go lower than that.
10-17-2018, 09:46 AM
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Naturally, I was tracking the route the whole time. Score one for the gps!
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10-17-2018, 11:06 AM
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Folks that still use “traditional” gps navigation systems like the benefit of knowing where they are even when they have no cell service. A couple of weeks ago while trailing my buddy in the Smoky Mts, he called on the radio and said he lost service and didn’t know which turn to take.
Naturally, I was tracking the route the whole time. Score one for the gps!
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10-17-2018, 06:03 PM
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Last year while driving with a friend in Wisconsin, his 2014 Stingray GPS couldn't find Lambeau Field, home of the Green Bay Packers since 1957. So much for the accuracy of the system. My '17 GS knows where Lambeau Field is so they do occasionally add something useful.
10-17-2018, 06:12 PM
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A few weeks ago I took the back roads to a speed shop about an hour and half away. I used my cell gps on the way up there but used all my battery up and didn't bring my car charger. I turned on the car nav on the way home and it wanted me to go 45 miles out of the way. Luckily there was enough juice left in my cell to get past that point and saved that 40 mins. I'll be checking on that update
10-18-2018, 11:13 AM
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10-18-2018, 12:07 PM
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Last year while driving with a friend in Wisconsin, his 2014 Stingray GPS couldn't find Lambeau Field, home of the Green Bay Packers since 1957. So much for the accuracy of the system. My '17 GS knows where Lambeau Field is so they do occasionally add something useful.
The C6 GPS took me to a place a couple of miles away.
The C7 GPS took me to a place a couple of miles away in the opposite direction.
Google Maps said "Sorry, we can't find that address."
Nothing is perfect.
The HUD directions allow me to listen to music or converse with my passenger, without interruption or worry about missing instructions when the windows are open or top off. No using up my data plan or battery. Big screen. Phone stays on my belt all the time. We've driven over most of the US and Canada using factory navigation, if I can get the address in properly then it works about as well as anything else. Sometime my copilot (wifey) uses Waze when we want to hurry, but I don't like using it by myself.
Again, nothing is perfect. Pick what meets your needs.
10-18-2018, 01:15 PM
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Well, I've been on over 50,000 miles of NCRS Road Tours in C6s, and current C7....would not do it without the maps and always do the updates - we find them 'comfortably' valuable, and consistent.......but what do I know !
10-18-2018, 01:28 PM
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FWIW, buying the "updated" map is no guarantee of current information...
Using both the Ford and GM GPS "new and improved updated maps", major highway changes made years prior (the intersections of I15 and NV215 in Las Vegas for my Mustang and CA180/CA168 in Commiefornia for my C7) were MISSING... I like the convenience of factory nav, but only update it every two or three years. Now that Google Maps is available on CarPlay, may give up the factory nav updating altogether.
Using both the Ford and GM GPS "new and improved updated maps", major highway changes made years prior (the intersections of I15 and NV215 in Las Vegas for my Mustang and CA180/CA168 in Commiefornia for my C7) were MISSING... I like the convenience of factory nav, but only update it every two or three years. Now that Google Maps is available on CarPlay, may give up the factory nav updating altogether.
10-18-2018, 01:39 PM
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The "updates" are already out of date when you get them.
10-18-2018, 07:35 PM
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