This map shows the Detailed City & Inter-town coverage of NA.

This data is from NavTech who does in fact supply all the mapping information to Alpine. Alpine is who manufactures our DVD's.


The red are areas of FULL COVERAGE...

The blue are areas where it just has major highways and major roads.

The green areas are places that will have full coverage by "Q1"... Q1 of what year... I dont know :\

 

when the new version of the NAV would be released?

 

i wonder when all of the u.s. will be detailed on the navi dvd...

 

This map is of the current version.

Those green areas are for Q1... what Q1 I dont know.

We can expect a new nav version this Fall, what it will include I dont know :\

 

damnnn...i must have taken em years to program in all of those roads. That is preety amazing.

 

I dont think theyll ever be able to fit the entire US onto one DVD.

Maybe if they didnt include all the f0in points of interest... but... with the "6 million points of interest" they currently brage about... their never gonna be able to fit all that shit and all the street data on one disc... and when the DVD's are costing $150 a disc... its an expensive proposition to have to buy 3 or 4 or 5 for the entire US.

I would suggest they dump the points of interest... who the fuck cares about a stone mason in Bumbfuck, Idaho? heh

Restaurants/Hospitals/Gas Stations... shit like that I can understand... but the rest is just a waste... they should concentrate on giving use decent street detail rather then all that BS.

Ive read that each street segment is allocated 150 bits of space... so imagine all 2.3 million miles of road in the US... and do the math. hehe

 

Its nothing impressive...

People have been drawing paper maps for eons!

And you can get twice as much, twice as accurate data from other digital map companies... I dunno why they cant do it for automobiles.

Anyone know who Lexus is using for map data in their new DVD based system?

Their mapping is far superior right now.

 

haha, looks like northern va is coverd in solid red

why don't they just make one for city folks and one for farm/country folks.

ie. point of intrest. for country folks-> market,barns,creeks...

 

Anyone notice the red in Canada? So why isn't navi available up there? They have the data.

 

I agree! And with the cost of HDD's now. They should probably go back to that. $129 for 40 Gig

And if they were real smart they wouldn't have to replace them. They could setup a cheap system at the dealer, you bring in the car, they pull the drive. Copy a new GHOST partition, and your back on the road.

[ 08-31-2001: Message edited by: Rock Dog ]

 

In regard to the Points of Intrest... I actually find these useful. I can't tell you how many times i've found myself in my car with about 1 or 2 hours to kill in an area that I haven't been before. In that situation I just hit a few buttons and the NAVI gives me a list of things to do within a few miles! I actually found a park that was only 5 miles from my house that I previously didn't know about until I found it listed on the Points of Intrest.

As far as harddrives go... right now it just doesn't make sense to use harddrives. Current mapping data will fit without a problem on a DVD. Also a DVD costs probably less than a dollar to replicate and mass produce compared to a Harddrive at least 50-100 dollars per unit. Also harddrives are sensitive to shock and fast movement, so you run the risk of damaging the hardware.

And finally regarding the mapping data not being that big of a deal in comparison to online maping resources, remember that our mapping data has to be syncronized with the GPS coordinates. I don't think that most online mapping data is as accurate in relation to GPS coordinates as our data is. I would guess our is accurate up to about 2 to 4 feet, that is pretty impressive when you are talking about the entire US.

 

"Hawk-man,"

According to Acura, the latest DVD "version" (Vol. 2.05) will be released by the end of September or early October (2001).

 

Do you guys get free upgrades of the new discs? If not, how much do they run at the dealers?

 

no free upgrades, even tho some dealers say this and lie when u buy the car. the new dvd's are 150.

 

Soopa, I get the "priorities" issue, however, I have used the feature to find machine shops, auto parts, and gas. I'm not sure if your only refering to "scenic" points of interest...

Then, I'm sure someone who likes finding interesting "points of interest" will tell me, "Keep that feature, and dump the auto junk" -- who knows...


I think someone was sure that the DVD they were using did not support the highest capacity DVDs -- too bad. I looked at the tech manual for my older Pioneer SCSI DVD and it said it supported all standards (basic capacity 3.95 Gigs) & 4.7 Gigs max (single sided)...

[ 08-31-2001: Message edited by: EricL ]