spijun

Lifetime upgrade is standard feature for all better models of Garmin nuvi
Only the base model Series 50 come without lifetime upgrades but additional payment for LT is only $ 20

PS: With new models Audi (A4, A6, A7, Q7) Updates are provided every six months, and the first five are free of charge.

Redd

That's good to know. I suspect Garmin finally woke up and smelled the Google Maps.(G)

Although sometimes I wonder, if the dedicated GPS units (in dash or other) might be using a faster processor and giving better results than the cell phones do. A cell phone being designed (originally) for walkers...and when you're moving at 30-50mph, the voice prompts for "turn left in 100 yards" sometimes don't finish speaking until the turn has been passed. Or, is still 100 yards ahead. Or 20 yards.

In the US we call this "measuring with a rubber ruler". But that's asking a $5 cell phone chip, with unknown CPU and other things, to be compared to a dedicated GPS. And even Garmin reluctantly admits some of their units (like the aviation ones) use more expensive chips, and better algorithms, that also require better faster memory. Which is arguably cheap enough these days.

Any ideas about that?

waninae39

only the new garmin GPS have free updates. the older ones are still based on paid subscriptions

jbbarrette

My Garmin is 6 years old if not more, free updates for life.

superswiss

This may sound silly, but I've gotten so used to the Google Earth view in the MMI, that I find any GPS with candy colored drawn maps and a toy car a step back into the 20th century. Which is kinda funny as some people think the opposite. But after having had a 2017 A4 loaner for a few days with the virtual cockpit and having Google Earth right in the instrument cluster, the candy colored Garmin maps just make me laugh. We each have our likes I guess, but Google Earth view is one of the key differentiators of the Audi MMI for me, even without the more modern virtual cockpit, but yes it requires a subscription which some folks don't seem to be able to swallow.

xfirechief

So we took the Q 5 in to find out what is wrong. Turns out nothing was wrong except the program they use. After they tried many times to enter the address we used last week they discovered this is not available in the Audi program.It will not allow u to enter addresses that we have in our area. This begin "330S 5500W. Pony Lane. Turns out Wisconsin is one of the few states that have this kind of addresses and their program is not set up for that. Suggest we use our Garmin for the few county's in Wisconsin that use that way for listing addresses.

Redd

If that's the Pony Lane in Sun Praire, WI, then Google Maps also says the address is invalid.


[insert an h t t p s colon slash slash dubyou dubyou duyou here] google.com/maps/place/Pony+Ln,+Sun+Prairie,+WI+53590/@43.1891563,-89.2404997,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x8806f7f28acd8c09:0x121b9 904cbf24724!8m2!3d43.1891524!4d-89.2383057
The forum tries to convert the web address into a live link, so I'll try to spell it out here.

They do, however, show plenty of houses with conventional addresses like "718 Pony Lane".

I've never seen a 911 system or the USPS handle an address like that, although apparently that's the grid coordinate format that the Mormons used to lay out Salt Lake City. Perhaps you could ask the USPS if they use an alternate system there?

superswiss

Yeah, the grid addresses are used in less than 5% of the USA as far as I understand and it doesn't look like many systems support them. I think some systems support them if you just enter the numbers w/o spaces e.g. 3305500 Pony Lane, but really these don't follow the standard US address format. Blame your area for not using the standard format.

dseag2

Time to move.

xfirechief

Really?
I would never put a real address on the post for all to see, I was trying to show the letters "S" & "W" that were in the real address I was trying to find.