What’s wrong with this picture?
Take a close look at that screenshot above. Do you see the error?
Yesterday, my wife was driving us home from our trip to Michigan when I heard her say, “which way do I go?” I looked up and saw the screen above. What’s going on is contradictory directions. The pane on the left and the top bar show the correct maneuver, bearing right to I-71 South. The Junction View image on the right however, indicates that we should go left to I-71 North. I’ve never seen this type of error before.
We were using the new Garmin nuvi 2497LMT, which otherwise performed pretty well on a trip of nearly 2,000 miles.
I’m assuming this is a database error, where junction images were miscategorized in some way. Have you ever seen anything like this? What’s the strangest thing you’ve ever encountered on your GPS?
About Rich Owings
You mean like this?
http://img542.imageshack.us/img542/3296/613.png
Ha! Looks like it’s not that unusual!
Looks like just us 🙁
And Garmin… http://gpstracklog.com/2013/04/garmin-nuvi-2797lmt-review.html/comment-page-1#comment-295874
Hmm, interesting because immediately after the right turn off of Camelback onto the ramp (indicated by the arrow on the map) the right lane ends up a service road and you need to get your ass over to the left 2 lanes to get down to I-17 – I guess that is at 0.9 miles as shown by the lane guidance. So the lane guidance shown would be correct immediately after the right turn.
Lane guidance is supposed to display the next turn, not two or three turns ahead. My nuvi 3790 with identical maps properly displayed my next turn as a right turn.
Harry, you clearly are very familiar with the area I was travelling in at the time.
Harry, today the Montana 650 got it right, see:
http://img191.imageshack.us/img191/8735/534d.png
Happens with TomTom as well! Last week I was traveling south of Asheboro, NC and my TomTom GO Live 1535’s voice said to keep left on the highway (about 4 lanes, I recall). The onscreen map on the other hand said to take the exit right! Split second guess to trust the map not the voice meant I took the correct road. Scared the heck out of my elderly sister. Unfortunately, I didn’t have a piece of paper to note the exact location so as to report to Map Update.
I’m still waiting to hear of an accident case where the victim blames the GPS.