RVND 7720 or GS RVND 7725?
Hi all, Been reading some of the posts about RVND 7720 and GS 7725. Some of the posts say the Garmin took them way out of their way and some times down dirt roads. (I'll do that in my Wrangler, but...
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CK&BK wrote:
Is the map database uninformed about dirt roads?
Is the routing software inefficient when it maps out routes?
All GPS units have old/ bad data on certain roads. The source of the data comes from cities, counties and states.
Some are very good about updating the data, some are not very good about updating the data.
I have currently a Garmin LMT 1490 (my sixth Garmin) and a RVND 7725.
Both streets as paved roads in the city just south of me. So does the Magellan RV9365T, and my ex-son-in-law's TomTom.
Because the city includes in its information to the state several streets which have been platted but have not yet been graded and built.
Garmin took over 27 months to show an updated map with the street I lived upon most recently - after I moved in - which was almost a year after the streets for this development were built. Because that city only bothers to update the data to the state every three or four years.
I'm not exactly sure what the Rand process is for dirt roads. I think it identifies roads without any surface information as dirt, because I've received the dirt road warning when traveling to some campgrounds which were on private roads, but the road was actually paved.
