Bl**dy Mapsource

[(RIP) willstatt]

Is Mapsource (as supplied with my GPS V) infuriating or am i just stupid! Can someone please tell me how to use the 'find' function or find addresses to make a 'new route'

For example, I have been trying today to make routes to two addresses in London:

First one is 16 Grafton Square

The second one is Putney Common ( a cul de sac on the edge of the common)

Despite the fact that these are 'there' on the Mapsource map on my PC.... the 'find' function or address function within the 'new route' operation always returns 'no items found' or on the Grafton one, gives me Grafton close or Grafton Rd.... anything but the bloody address that I want!!!

Could someone please try this on their mapsource (mine is version 4.11) and give me an exact sequence and run down of how I should do this.

Also isn't it possible to just 'find' a street (without) a specific house number.

I mean if I could just for example put in Putney Common, or Grafton Sq, then I could just about find the house number I needed!!

Is this software crap, or is it me

The bin beckons!

Pleeease help

Will

 

[adamski49]

Hi Will

Not as marvellous as I first thought either.

In answer to your question, no. There is no Grafton Square listed on my GPS V unit - but I don't know where it is in London and I only have the top half (that would be North wouldn't it ) loaded.

I tried to add a waypoint for Newman Street (just off Oxford Street) yesterday and it wouldn't find it so I had to zoom in and do it manually - grade A pain in the arse. It wouldn't even find Oxford Street

Then it dawned on me ... put UK in the country box, then find london then find street and hey presto!

The key seems to be UK even of there is only one London in Europe it won't play until yopu've done that. HTH.

Adam

PS Gecko, my v5.00 City Select is in the post from Garmin... hopefully it will unlock for free

 

[gazza]

Hmm interesting.

I have had a go and as you say it's crap. However, it will find Putney Common if you put a low number in and country of England. But it will not locate Grafton Square, time to have a play.

 

[gazza]

It does work

Try using the same procedure as in the previous post ie number 1 then address then country England. Scroll down the list and there it is

 

[Gecko]

I had similar frustrations early on. I contacted Garmin and to cut a long story short even if you can see it in Map source on your PC it won't necessarily be found on the search function. The bloke at Garmin said however that if you had that map section uploaded you would find it on the GPS unit . Sounded bloody daft to me but it does seem to work like that for me....

 

[(RIP) willstatt]

Thanks mates

Well, thanks for that advice.... as you say, putting in England does seem to help, and I did seem to 'find' both addresses then. Putting in London however, just produced 'no items found' which is a load of bo**ox because both addresses are clearly there on the mapsource map.

It's a really crap piece of software isn't it. I mean I bet there's not many Putney commons in Europe, and yet it needs to be told England in order to acknowledge that it's there.

But at least I've now got some idea how to get better results

Many thanks

Will

 

[Simon Eassom]

Willstat:

I'm having the same frustrations. My SPIII+ is only as good as the mapsource data (which is piss poor if you think of it as a map).

Even the latest upgrade software is three years out of date. It doesn't recognise several new road developments in my area that have been functional since 1999.

I got my new Garmin last Wednesday and used it every day in the car until the weekend: it couldn't get me to my destination once (on three separate journeys to different locations) without error. I worked round the unit because I knew where I was going, but it would have been hopeless if I didn't. The errors were all due to new roads not being covered by the mapsource or by inadequate mapsource data in a particular area.

I can't even find my way home . . . my house, street and number, is on the map. It's just that it's about 200 metres down the road from where I live, over a railway bridge, and round the corner.

And before Tim, Mike, or Greg chip in, it's not down to user error either with the unit or using/loading the mapsource.

I have to say, I'm impressed with its capabilities whilst at the same time being flabbergasted by its ineptitude.

 

[Greg Masters]

I can't even find my way home . . . my house, street and number, is on the map. It's just that it's about 200 metres down the road from where I live, over a railway bridge, and round the corner.

And before Tim, Mike, or Greg chip in.......

Would I?

I had a similar problem with a road about 800 yards from my house. Every time I set out on a route which took me to the M25, it would send me down this no through road.

I contacted Garmin's Cartography department last year and, hey presto, that road has been corrected on v5.00!

QED



Greg

 

[RussellAisbitt]

Even the latest upgrade software is three years out of date. It doesn't recognise several new road developments in my area that have been functional since 1999.

You have to remember that the data from Navtech and Teleatlas is Crown Copyright 1995. Which means Ordnance Survey provided them with some old data on the cheap, and then left them up to their own devices for updating it. In theory they have to go and do all their own surveying to add new roads.

 

[MiGSel]

The not-finding-a-street-problem often seems to be related to the city or town name that it is in, according to the map data.

What you (and everybode else) call London is probably in the map database as some part of London with a different name. I have experienced that entering a postal code instead of a city/town name is a lot more efficient.

Problem is, you don't always have that code of course...

Also, you best omit parts like "street" "road" "square" "saint-" etc. in the street name.

I do agree, the software definitely needs serious work!

 

[Dave Hall]

I have to disagree that the new mapsource (V5) has`nt been updated. My son bought a house a new estate and only half the streets were on my V4...lo and behold V5 has the whole estate on which was only completed last year...I was pleasantly surprised. I agree with all other comments re the functionality of mapsource.