The companies are Teleglobe and Navteq
Garmin uses Navteq cartography as does Ford for their onboard Nav systems A couple of years ago there was a huge controversy about a GPS hardware vendor buying Teleglobe. Thereby leaving no competition in the digital cartography market There always seems to be a discrepancy between postal/street addresses and GPS street addresses Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry -----Original Message----- From: "J. Forster" <j...@quik.com> Sender: time-nuts-boun...@febo.com Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2010 09:44:47 To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement<time-nuts@febo.com> Reply-To: j...@quik.com, Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement <time-nuts@febo.com> Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Speaking of problems with Garmin Did you ever actually get a contact inside Garmin? I have the same problem. If you punch in an address, it sends you to the wrong end of a long road. I've been told there are two mapping companies. Anybody know who they are? -John =========== > Hey John, > > I had the same prob with my Nuvi. For the longest time it thought my > house > was four houses away. I emailed Garmin and got....nothing. But then, on > the most recent map update, the problem was resolved. > > Good luck with it. > > Bill > > > > > On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 9:45 AM, John Green <wpxs...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> I just bought a Nuvi 265WT and after I entered my home address, it >> says home is .2 miles away. I know this is a map error, but the map >> comes from Garmin. To me, this is unacceptable. I will complain, in >> vain, I am sure, to Garmin. >> Sorry to be off topic but when I saw "Garmin", I couldn't resist >> venting a little. >> >> _______________________________________________ >> time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com >> To unsubscribe, go to >> https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts >> and follow the instructions there. >> > _______________________________________________ > time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com > To unsubscribe, go to > https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts > and follow the instructions there. > > _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there. _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.