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The maps are so outdated its laughable driving around brooklyn, I constantly get sent to incorrect addresses.
 
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Does anyone know if it possible to copy the updated wayfinder maps from the N95 and use them on the N800?

It also seems the maps changed from the N770 Navigator to wayfinder since when I used Navigator it found addresses that Wayfinder says don't exist. Has anyone switched back to the N770 for Navigation? I have both tablets, so might try it.
 
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#23
no no no

i downloaded the Middle East map and wanted my country iran but i couldn't found it

why??????????

can they add my country?

are guys of wayfinder here????????
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Nice! Missing a street is one thing, but an entire country? That takes some doing...
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Even better, they missed half continent, where is latin america???
At least they could use the navteq maps from the nseries phones, my brother's n80 has all the important and not so important cities from México. I wish i could use that maps on my n800.
 
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and they missed a state in the us- hawaii
per an email from wayfinder they have no 'immediate' plans to add hawaii or for that matter any of the caribbean
 
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Try refreshing now. I see Hawaii in the new set of 2008.1 maps.
 
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Originally Posted by rafaelsemx View Post
Even better, they missed half continent, where is latin america???
At least they could use the navteq maps from the nseries phones, my brother's n80 has all the important and not so important cities from México. I wish i could use that maps on my n800.
Now there's México and Brazil, at least. I will wait for Argentina... sat down.

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Well, here's my 2 cents for the Wayfinder experience in Montreal, Canada.

My primary interest was to use the N810 as a GPS/music player in my car, so I needed a reliable program with navigation. Unfortunately, maemo mapper has huge gaps in my area – as in actual gray zones with no details around where I live (my whole suburban city is missing) and where I work. Since this is intended for work use, I really didn't want to develop GPS data while I'm lost trying to meet a client.

After using the 7 day trial, I found everything to be fine, despite a few bugs I could live with. So I bought the program. After further use I've experienced some additional troubles. So here is a list of the bugs I've encountered in what is supposedly a finished product. :

1. Highway information missing. During turn-by-turn navigation the upper left hand corner displays the street name of the next turn. This is fine insofar as you aren't turning on a Highway. What end up being displayed are two blank white rectangles followed by the name of the direction you are going (usually a city name). If I am exiting a highway, it will display the exit number alongside a single blank rectangle or just the exit number.


2. Incorrect street names. Whenever I navigate in my area, I've found that the main boulevard near my house is incorrectly named "AA Desroches Rue". I know it's actually named "des Sources Boulevard". In the 2 months I've been using Wayfinder, I've found over a dozen streets named AA Desroches (rue), some of which actually intersect each other. My guess is that that is the default name for any street the program does not know – split boulevards (two roads that are unconnected but still retain the same name), service roads, alleys and so on.



3. POIs, or the lack thereof. Apparently, in downtown Montreal, the second largest city in Canada, there are no gas stations, no hotels and no theaters. There are billions of WiFi Canada hotspots though, so that's a relief. At least I can go online to find out where all the gas stations and hotels went.


4. Speaking of downtown. Don’t follow the navigation downtown. It's generally right, but for some odd reason it keeps telling me to turn left, then right, then left again back onto the street I started on. It is really bizarre and seem to do it most on Parc Ave. So word to the wise, don’t buy if you live on the Plateau.

5. Customer support. Right. My first email received an almost instant response, not a robotic one, an actual response. They asked for license key info and screenshots of the problems. I have since sent 6 emails asking for follow ups and gotten nothing. I have sent emails with screenshots and emails without screenshots asking if their servers perhaps rejected the emails with screenshots. I've re-entered their online support form. All, to this day, to no avail.

There are many great features to this program. I generally have a good idea of what's going on and where I'm going, as long as I don't need to know the names or numbers of the Highways I need to get there. And now that I know there are no streets named AA Desroches (Rue), I can pretty well guess what the dulcet tones of my South African GPS really mean.

Just turn left when she says so, you'll probably get there.
 

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