Nissan Navigation Update Australia Download Free

[Vivien]

Thisis the problem with built in GPS on cars. To be honest, as per advise above, contact your dealer or buy a Garmin GPS with lifetime warranty. Just your the inbuilt for appearance apart from that, going out far I would never rely on them.

We use Sygic on our smartphones now. All the features of a dedicated gps including voice guidance, HUD, and much more. They have free updates and it is with you no matter where you are or what you are driving. Full Australian maps are loaded into your phone so no internet is ever needed.

The reason I prefer inbuilt GPS is they don't just use GPS. GPS is used to sync every now and then, but otherwise they use the cars sensors to keep track of the heading and speed of the vehicle. Makes them much more accurate, faster updates, and less prone to drop-out then standard GPS, even function through tunnels where normal GPS would fail.

If you have a previous known position (from the GPS), and then the above data you can calculate the cars position with a reasonable amount of accuracy. Obviously the accuracy declines the longer the interval since the last GPS fix.

Don't know much about Nissan, but for the bog standard GPS fitted to the old generation VW's (RNS-510), looking at the measuring blocks using a service tool or the hidden menu, the GPS is aware via CAN bus of the steering angle and speed and gives a comparison between the calculated position and the GPS position (if reception is available). If both types of data are available, it uses the calculated position to refine the GPS position, sort of like differential GPS.

There was, for a while, a series of TomTom after-market navigation units that had internal accelerometers to give better position data when reception was lost (e.g. when in a tunnel) rather than assuming that the car just proceeded at it's last known speed.

All the features of a dedicated gps including voice guidance, HUD, and much more. They have free updates and it is with you no matter where you are or what you are driving. Full Australian maps are loaded into your phone so no internet is ever needed.

But, if you care about how your car interior looks (and yes I am fairly fastidious about this)... these mobile GPSs look ugly when you have this fat 5" wide thing stuck to your window, especially with a charging cable running all the way down to your cigarette lighter port.

Ahem, M5 tunnel doesn't, GPS signal IS lost while driving through it and most GPS devices lose GPS lock. Some navigation software "continues" to "work" because it follows the route using "average" or posted legal speed limits (painfully visible when you hit traffic which is always) but it certainly has no GPS information until you leave the tunnel at which point it re-synchs the location. This is both on the car's GPS AND phone, however the car's GPS continues to work correctly.

Of course it can and does. On the Skoda (VAG) the GPS (Columbus) has magnetic compass and altimeter built in while speed and distance travelled is fed into the GPS unit through CANBUS (and nav information is also fed back to the MaxiDot display).

The altimeter is actually a result of the 3D GPS fix, if you have 3 sats or fewer the altimeter disappears. I think the compass is actually from the GPS as well. O models without an RNS factory fitted, they fitted an additional magnetic compass module so that the MDI shows the rough direction.

he altimeter is actually a result of the 3D GPS fix, if you have 3 sats or fewer the altimeter disappears. I think the compass is actually from the GPS as well. O models without an RNS factory fitted, they fitted an additional magnetic compass module so that the MDI shows the rough direction.

You're probably right about the altimeter, but I'm pretty sure I've seen compass data without a GPS lock (happens when you update the maps, the GPS lock often takes a long time to reacquire thereafter).

The onboard equipment required to navigate at any level above an 8yr old with a map and compass without using gps will cost thousands. For what? To poorly replicate a $100 gps unit.

If a car salesman said it, its bullshit.

Actually, virtual ALL built-in (to car, OEM) units except for the cheap 'plugin' type units does. (Since) The SIRF Star III chipset (and competitors of this generation) has hooks to take abs, steering angle and other data from the car to extend the 'Dead Reckoning' (DR) feature of the chipset. This DR feature take OEM units functionality beyond the DR functionality of the handheld units.

Prior to the Sirf Star III chipset, the OEM units win hands down because back then DR was provided by hardware (gyroscope built-in), whilst handheld stops working when the signal is weak or is blocked. IMHO, OEM will always have performance advantage over handheld due to the integration with car telemetry.

Using the TomTom Australia app on my iPhone it always gets confused in tunnels and doesn't allow for variations in traffic and has to update after the tunnel exit (usually by which time the turn has been missed).

Using my inbuilt GPS Sat Navigation system on my 2010 Mazda3 Maxx Sport this NEVER happens. The map always stays in line with the car's position and only ever recalculates if I take a wrong turn/exit.

I won't profess to know mechanically what causes this however there's a world of difference in tunnels using my inbuilt Sat Nav compared to the TomTom app on my iPhone. TomTom has more up-to-date road networks and traffic (for a price) though. My 2010 Mazda came with 2008 maps and Mazda has offered to update them for $380. Told them to go jump.

I disagree. As long as the maps are up to date, GPS built into a car is miles ahead of any phone navigation app currently on the market. Newer cars also do traffic updates when synced with your phone via bluetooth as well.

Ford is the same, have G6E with sat nav, to update it you have to go to spares dept purchase product key( around $200 thankyou)book car into service dept they retrieve the product key & then download onto your cars system. cost?another $200 plus thankyou! It aint cheap! cheers:)

The actual GPS receiver can estimate the direction, comparing latest position to the previous position. If you are now 20 metres north of where you were 2 seconds ago, then you are probably moving north.... This approach also only works if you are moving, and, if you are moving slowly ( walking speed ), it cannot easily determine direction from the random apparent movement inherent in the uncertainty of the gps position.

A suitably programmed microprocessor can combine the inferences of these two direction measurements. It's going to be more effective if the compass device is fixed to the car, rather than randomly swivelled around on the holder.

If your "GPS device" has mapping software, route planning software, spoken directions, vehicle tracking functionality, restaurant reviews and recommendations, traffic warnings, speed camera location knowledge, or any other useful features, that is actually not an attribute of the Global Positioning System.

I might be wrong about this, but I thought that there were only two versions of the AUS Whereis DVD maps, one for Toyota/Lexus and one for everything else? I know that the Subaru one works in a Mitsubushi Lancer and a Mazda 3 (think it was the 3).

It is interesting that 3 days after my NCAT hearing against Nissan (during which the Nissan representative again identified Nissan had no idea when their GPS upgrade would be available) we received a message on our Nissan GPS system "A new version of map data is available. Please contact your Nissan dealer for an update".

Nissan have previously advised me that they are looking at moving to new GPS technology. Perhaps Nissan is having trouble with their Mapper supplier and the required GPS upgrades have been too difficult to achieve?

Nissan Customer Service advised me earlier this year, that their GPS system was updated in September 2014, this was clearly not correct or the upgrade was badly incomplete.

In March 2015 Nissan advised me they had no idea when a GPS upgrade might be available for my XTrail.

For good reason, I am not filled with confidence that this latest GPS upgrade will be complete.

At the Nissan identified $750 per GPS upgrade it remains significantly more expensive than a Tom Tom etc.

I just contacted my Nissan Dealer.

The GPS system message my car keeps identifying (more than once) "A new version of map data is available" is apparently not correct. There is no Nissan GPS upgrade currently available. An interesting Nissan experience.

I can load a destination into my mobile at home over a wireless internet connection, then get detailed route info with accurate vehicle location, spoken directions and speed limits during the trip, without incurring any data costs.

My phone gives my distance to the next corner and gets quite insistent when I get there. All verbal instructions, I don't need to look at the screen, just listen to the voice. Like having your wife or g/f sitting next to you nagging away. lol

I'm driving from Adelaide to Nairne tomorrow, the $29 phone will be set up when I go, I will dim the screen and put it in my shirt pocket and see how accurate the verbal instructions are. I know the way, so I'm checking the GPS accuracy rather than letting it guide me.

(Speed limit instructions are surprisingly accurate, crossing an 80 KPH road from a 60 KPH road will see the speed limit info jump to 80 while crossing that intersection. But you need to be looking at the phone to notice.)

I bought Nissan Xtrail in Dec 2015 as you know GPS map was way too old even though the Sales Guy told me its was the latest 2015 map. I contacted nissan they just got back to me saying new maps will be available second quarter of this year to buy.

WTF? The guy at the dealer just told me to call Nissan direct 1800 035 035 (opt 2-2), but they don't want to know anything about it.

No free maps even if you just purchased a car (mine is 1 year old) and no comments on the price

Nissan Australia confirmed maps update is released and price is approx $589 plus GST. considering my car only 2 months old, they are not willing to provide updated sd card. Any advice regarding how to lodge complaint to Fair trading or NCAT.

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