Disappearing streets in mapping products

[mikej2]

I've emailed Garmin about this in the past, and now I've just put in a Navteq report on the subject.

There is a street in the town I live in that shows up on some older Garmin map software that I have, but is missing from the newer software that Garmin offers. I saw in another thread where they have the newest City Nav map viewer updated, so I went there and found the street in question is still missing. There's a couple of other streets I've come across since getting my GPSr that I've noticed are also missing from the electronic maps. I can understand when new streets and roads take a while to get incorporated into the software, lots of square miles in the world with lots of new road construction, but I can't fully understand how existing roads disappear from the programs.

 

Looks like I won't be upgrading my mapping software just yet. Might have to in order to get some new roadways that are showing up, but will have to keep my old stuff for the old and still existing roads that have gone missing on the new software.

 

Oh well, maybe I can place a geocache on one of these missing streets and watch people post find reports where they thought they were going to have to go offroading but instead drove right up to the cache location. Could be a whole new category of cacheing, Twilight Zone caches.

 

Oh well, just a rant of sorts. I'll go find my paper maps now so I can find my way home....

 

A question: do any of you know of any local roads that have gone missing on updated map software?

[Hertzog]

The very first Metroguide was not based on Navteq data. When Garmin went with Navteq on subsequent versions they got a lot more data in urban areas, but lost a lot in rural areas; I still keep the first version installed so I can make comparisons, but haven't had occasion to download it to the GPSr.

 

I haven't noticed any "lost" streets on the later versions, but I suppose it's possible. What I have noticed though are several lost points of interest. In particular, two music stores, which have not changed locations in the last 40 years or so!

[Grasscatcher]

Maybe the US Forest Service or the BLM is in charge of making the maps.

 

Here in the Colorado backcountry, we've noticed for years that everytime they put out a new map , more and more of our favorite roads and trails are "missing".

 

HA !