... it's connected to the internet so it can update itself automatically and constantly.

It's a joke that with today's technology we have to buy an upgrade DVD or hard drive every year to get last year's maps and POI.

 

+1

Let me add: I've worked with GPS and data vendors for many, many years. It reallly bums me out that technology to support things like editing the DB locally on my PC and uploading back to my vehicle (or the rest of the community) isn't really in widespread use today. I'm tired of so many roads in my area being "missing" or having the wrong speed limits on them causing routing to constantlly try and take me the wrong way.

 

LEARN YOUR DIRECTIONS THEN!!!
lol j/k i have a portable tomtom... never really messed with it but im pretty sure i can just upload and download from the internet... i love it but i barely use it..
just want to wire it somehow to the car directly so it turns on and off automatically and i dont use my cig lighter for it.

 

love my carpcs GPS, can download new maps whenever i want.

 

TomTom's Mapshare technology is what you're looking for. You can edit stuff on your map (change road direction, (un)block road etc etc) and you can upload to share with other users and you can download other users' corrections if you wish.

 

Good thread bit, very very good point. The tech is surely there.

I wonder if the new 7, which will have internet, will have this feature.

Hell if the BMW Nav is wrong, you can go to Google Maps instead

 

Yeah, widespread and OEM are the key words here.

 

I have 1 OEM, 2 portables and the iphone so i am always up to date on map and NEVER get lost... Sometime I do, but my wife does not know that...

 

i want google maps on my navi unit so i can redirect the route any which way i want =)

 

I upgraded my 98 GS400's Nav in 2001 to the year 2000 map database, and for the next 8 years rarely had any problems running with an old map. Maybe because I am in the NYC area and it is already built up but there is just not that many changes to the roads here. The few times I would visit someone in a new development Google Maps didn't have the street either, so no big deal. I personally don't understand the need to have the latest map software every year.

 

99% of my trips are to places I have been to so I don't get lost. For the few times I am going somplace new, I get a map off the net and don't get lost either. Zero OEM gps's, zero portable gps's, and no iPhone and I don't get lost either. Guess I am just lucky.

 

I wonder if the MKS will be able to update itself... It does have the Sirius Travel Link that updates travel conditions and weather updates daily...



http://www.lincoln.com/mks/interiorf...feature=sirius

 

Some other stuff that Travel Link includes...

 

The $99 TomTom I have is better than the factory NAV in my GS430.

 

indeed. They need to catch up.