Case 1: After a 320 mile stretch yesterday I (almost) arrive at my next destination.
But I get distracted and miss an almost final turn by a few feet. Since I cannot turn around, the GPSs then re-route.
The RV760 finds that there is (supposedly) a loop of two connecting small roads towards my final end-point. Just take two left turns and you are there in a few seconds. Or so it says.
My parallel GPS says "hogwash, take a 2.1 mile loop on the larger road to get back where you missed."
Tired (and late) as I am, I decide to take the advice of the Garmin RV760 to save some time.. Bad idea. The two roads are tiny country roads (strips of old asphalt with no markings at all). just a few feet wider than my rig. No problem in itself, though. I like tiny goat-trail roads. So we chug along.
Now the problem. The "loop" was not a loop at all.. It ended in a dead-end, and the supposed connection to my real destination was across a tiny walking bridge to the connecting road only. Not a road, and not fit for any vehicle. The dead-end was only maybe 100 ft from my final destination as the crow flies, but that might as well have been 10.000 miles.
With no way to turn around, then on to disconnecting my vehicles from each other, back to a drive-way long enough dip the MH into, and back it out again. Since a 43 foot vehicle does not u-turn easily on a road less than 15 ft wide.
Obviously some map-data was missing an update. The bridge has supposedly always been there. And those roads should never be used for anything of big-truck size anyway.
Case 2. Later that evening I try to get to an Exxon (using the RV760 in RV mode, but in my pickup truck)..
All great.. Got to the Exxon alright. Sort of. .. Except based on the sun-bleached state and the old weed overgrowth on the empty lot with the pump-remnants, it seemed like it had been shut-down maybe 5-10 years ago. In reality Exxon had moved a few blocks further up-town. The trip should have ended in two right turns, instead of the two left-turns claimed by the RV760.
My Parallel GPS was right again.
But then, how old is the RV760 (City Navigator) base POI data and how is it verified/kept up-to-date?
City Navigator Map version was 2014.30.
