mrtgman

I see them everywhere and it is driving me nuts. They appear on areas where there are no roads, somtimes throught the middle of golf courses that I may be driving by. They are almost always in some sort of line formation. Sometimes there are only a few of them in a line and other times there are hundreds of them all clumped together.

Does anyone know what they are?

Thanks!

03CoupeV6

Yes, electronic breadcrumbs. They allow the TL to show you the way back if you venture into uncharted territories (aka unverified areas).

mrtgman

But the appear in areas I have never driven in (I can't remember the last time I drove my TL on a golf course but yet those white dots are all over the course on my nav screen)

walker29

Check with your wife or girlfriend. She may be taking your car for joyrides on the course at night

gatrhumpy

iTrader: (1)

Sometimes the navigation system is a little quirky like that. I have seen that happen to my car also.

03CoupeV6

Yes satellites can be off, and cause this to happen. One time, I was driving along the highway in a loaner RL and all of a sudden the Navi showed me driving off the road and through a field. Sure enough, moments later, it began leaving the breadcrumbs, even though I was still on the highway. It's nothing to worry about.

A_UFO

p45 & 58 from 05 Navi Manual

After you have traveled approximately 1/2 mile away on a mapped road (you should get "Not on a digitized road" at the bottom of the screen) the Navi will display a series of white dots. Tracking continues for 150 miles. The dots at the beginning of the trail will start to disappearing when you exceed that limit. When you reach a mapped road, displaying dots is terminated.

To clear existing dots, turn this feature off on Screen 2 of the Setup menu. Look for Track Offroad Position. Then go back to Screen 1 and back to Screen 2 and enable.

Silver Bullet

Like 03CoupeV6 said "Yes, electronic breadcrumbs. They allow the TL to show you the way back if you venture into uncharted territories (aka unverified areas)."
They are trying to show you the stright line back to your destination when it doesn't know how to route you. Kind of an "as the crow flys" direction. This way as you drive down a road you'll always know at least in what direction you need to go if your destination "target" icon is not visable on the screen.

in other words...WAD (working as designed)

PrinceOfEgypt

I know what you are talking about - they drive me crazy too, and they are NOT electronic breadcrumbs - they're slightly larger..

I see them on a golf course close to where I work, and they show up in my wife's TL and my TSX..

does ANYBODY know what these are? they're driving me crazy!!!!

jmbnova

The post TWO above you says:

PrinceOfEgypt

as I said in my post, these dots are different than the breadcrumbs / offroad tracking. Even if I turn off "Track Offroad Position" they are always there and in the same position. I'll try to take a picture of them when I go down to lunch and post it here.

PrinceOfEgypt

Here's the picture:

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dragonlord

Lost golf balls?

PrinceOfEgypt

that's what one of my co-workers said also..

timmahh

Those are the tracking dots.

is there a parking lot in the golf course? do you park your car in it?

I only see the dots in unknown places

though..

it could be the new Bird Tracking technology on the TL.

PrinceOfEgypt

nope, i've never been in that golf course before.

timmahh

Did you buy the car used

PrinceOfEgypt

nope, new. i've seen the dots in other places also, as has the person who originally started this topic. the dots also show up in the same place in my wife's car (TL). They are definately something in the map data, just have no clue what they are...

timmahh

Very strange.. if you want to PM me the location and ill see what mine does ? What year is your TL / what year is hers? Both the same nav version?

ayethetiense

those are dots that show where you have "driven" on. the satellites, as stated earlier, can be easily off.

as you can see, you can connect the dots and create lines and curves.

timmahh

.. although there are dots in the water o_O

PrinceOfEgypt

ok you guys are so right.. it is the breadcrumbs. turns out when I leave the garage at work it takes a while for it to pick up the sattelites again. during that time the nav thinks i'm driving through the golf course

mike03a3

Snowman poop - usually don't see them this time of year.

dragonlord

timmahh

lol.. i make 4 complete circles on 4 levels exiting work.. when I leave the nav thinks im cutting through the streets downtown on an angle for 30 - 60 seconds

PrinceOfEgypt

yep, sounds like what happens to me