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Charles

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Oct 26, 2009, 7:18:11 PM10/26/09
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On a recent trip to Boulder, CO my Navigon really screwed up. I had
programmed it for the Golden Buff Lodge Best Western (which was in its data
base) and it went into an endless loop of "Make a U-turn now."

It did get me to the general area from the Denver airport, but could not
place me at the motel. Unfortunately, I could not see the motel. I finally
gave up and stopped and asked for directions and it was then easy to get
there. WTF?

All old roads there, BTW and the Best Western there is ancient. WTF?

Given my experience with Navigon directions (there have been other
incidences with older roads) and being screwed as a FreshMaps sucker, I will
avoid their future offerings in the US as bundled into Apple computer
products, and others.

Navigon: you should retreat COMPLETELY from the US. You have sunk your
future market chances here.

Colin

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Oct 27, 2009, 4:50:36 PM10/27/09
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"Charles" <charles...@comcast.net> wrote in
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apn94239

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Oct 27, 2009, 9:07:05 PM10/27/09
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Colin wrote:
> "Charles" <charles...@comcast.net> wrote in
> news:hc5anl$ecn$1...@news.eternal-september.org:
>
>
>> On a recent trip to Boulder, CO my Navigon really screwed up. I had
>> programmed it for the Golden Buff Lodge Best Western (which was in its
>> data base) and it went into an endless loop of "Make a U-turn now."
>>
>> It did get me to the general area from the Denver airport, but could
>> not place me at the motel. Unfortunately, I could not see the motel.
>> I finally gave up and stopped and asked for directions and it was then
>> easy to get there. WTF?
>>
>> All old roads there, BTW and the Best Western there is ancient. WTF?
>>
>> Given my experience with Navigon directions (there have been other
>> incidences with older roads) and being screwed as a FreshMaps sucker,
>> I will avoid their future offerings in the US as bundled into Apple
>> computer products, and others.
>>
>> Navigon: you should retreat COMPLETELY from the US. You have sunk
>> your future market chances here.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
> I have one of these expensive paper weights. I wrote to navigon and said the same thing, they are toast in the US. I could never get them to say if they ever even wrote any map updates past Update 1.2. No point in buying FreshMaps if they haven't. Asked three times. Got replys but no answers.

Charles

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Oct 28, 2009, 5:06:57 PM10/28/09
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"apn94239" <craigb...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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I got a rather rude response from them that chastised me for my impatience!
What a bunch of A-holes.


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