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Question

I have the latest OVI Maps in my E72 (v.3.04 10wk32 b03 and map version 0.1.25.114.
However, my map of Denmark is both out of date by 3+ years and inaccurate. I have tried sending feedback, but to no avail. I have contacted Navteq through their usual channels.
Denmark got new local authorities on 1. jan 2007 but this is still not properly reflected in Maps. Some towns have the wrong names because somebody has obvious been guessing!
Almost the worst thing I have experienced, though, is that 15 kilometres of major roads works bypassing the city of Roskilde change at regular intervals, but never radically. Even so, Maps gets totally confused and keeps rerouting you. A bit silly. Given the amount of traffic on this stretch of road, on which two carriageway run between metre-high concrete blocks, updates should be frequent.
Closer to Copenhagen last week Maps got so confused after more roadworks that the phone rebooted (OK I _was_ listening to BBC World Service on Internet Radio at the time, but that is a fairly obvious option on a boring journey. Just after this happened I had to rely 100% on Maps to change motorway lanes 5 times in 15 minutes with no opportunity to stop and re-insert my destination. Very silly.
It seems a bit pointless to have free maps if they don't work properly?
hughm_nyksj_dk

Answer 1

Well, if you are using Maps in online mode, it should pull the newest data into the phone from the maps.ovi.com servers, which is how it works even if there is no map data previously downloaded on the phone. You should be able to see the newly added sections if on the maps you go to the area where the edits were made and leave it there for a while. The downloading may be fast or slow depending on your connection (you can see how much data is being downloaded on the counter). If no data is shown, then probably you arent connecting to the mapping servers.
Basically, turn on online mode in maps, make sure positioning server is correct, and for good measure turn on A-GPS and network positioning (you're using data anyway).
I've already experience this a few times, off the top of my head I remember my maps just autocorrected on an instance where initially there was an error where one road was shown as two parallel roads in Ovi maps (been going through this road for months then and used to the mistake), but the next day, it was corrected without me having to download new maps.
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