My Christmas gift from my wife last year was a very nice top of the range Navman S300T.
One of the attractions to the Navman was a free 2009 map upgrade. My frustration is that I still have not received my free map upgrade. I have made several phone call to Navman during 2009 enquiring about the upgrade. The standard response was always that the 2009 map upgrade will be available later in the year.
The Navman website even says that the upgrades will be available in October 2009. I spoke with a representative from Navman yesterday and he assured me that I would have my map updates by the end of December (yeh pigs might fly too), and in what form he did not know.
My issue is not really that I have not received the free update as promised, it is more the fact that the maps currently on my less than 12 months old navman are way out of date.
We have lived in our current house for 3 years and the street has existed for 4 years, the map stops about 1 third of the way up the street so I have had to set my home location in the GPS to about 500M from my actual street address.
Last January we were travelling back from Central Queensland, the Navman decided to take us off the highway just south of Brisbane, do a lap around a block and put us back on the highway exactly where we left it.
When I was in Sydney last week the Navman tried to get me to make a right hand turn into a street that has been blocked off to entering traffic.
Other than the mapping issues I am extremely pleased with the S300T and it’s many features, I feel better now I have vented my frustrations.
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