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Another feature offered by this system is to find your way using the lat & long coordinates. With this info, even if there is no road data available the system will guide you to the road closet to your coordinate point (latitude and longitude). The system always provides you with the lat & long along any path you take on the map. When in route overview, the user have the option to either see the entire route by itself on the map, or a listing of the street turns involved, or both. This way the opportunity is given to explore your route before "lift-off". My findings are not a matter of patience. Being stuck with a $2K gadget that at first seemed to be a waste was not an option for me. Amaury '08 Limited
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Replying to: amauhry (Jun 26, 2008 9:19 am) In summary, the system is an inferior, difficult, overpriced, inconvenient and outrageous offering by Toyota.  
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Every point on earth has a latitude and longitude “address”, including your own house. This is how vessels can find spots on the ocean and missiles can find their targets on earth (sort of). While your car is parked in your garage, activate your Nav system: Hit “Destination” button. Choose the “By Emergency” option. Bingo! The screen provided by this option (latter) includes the Latitude and longitude of your garage. Now, you can find that spot once again in your system either by the common method of street by name or by the not so common method (among us civilians) of Cartesian way of Lat and Long. How can your find your spot in the middle of Interstate 95 or Route 66 or Coyote land? Not by street name my friend. Lat & Long is way more reliable. Amaury ’08 Limited
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Replying to: amauhry (Jun 26, 2008 1:32 pm) This junk sucks! |
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Replying to: amauhry (Jun 26, 2008 7:09 am) Here are the results: Avalon contains navigation information for secondary roads/highways only in metropolitan areas. It worked fine in and around Tampa, but could not navigate anywhere near my house in central Florida. The system had most of the road locations and names right...it just would not use the information for navigation. (Nuvi had no problems anywhere along the route.) Avalon contains limited data for points of interest. It could not find a well-known seafood restaurant (Landry's Seafood) within 2 miles of my hotel. It could not find movie theaters anywhere in Tampa. (Nuvi found both and navigated us to them nicely.) I compared all of this to Microsoft Streets & Trips 2006 that I use at home. It could navigate all of the roads in the routes and found all points of interest. I dare say the version that was available eight years ago could do so. Avalon's navigation system is at least 10 year old technology. Jordanfl '08 Limited with difficient navigation |
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I am in the market for a portable GPS system and I have my eye on the brand new Garmin Nuvi 880. In addition to text-to-speech, it has voice recognition, traffic monitoring and blue tooth. Reviewers are saying this is the best portable GPS system on the market right now but it is pricey at $999 compared to the $349 Magellan Maestro 4250 that does essentially the same thing with AAA Tour book included. My wife has OnStar in her automobile and I just love the way everything is so integrated especially when the stereo is muted so you can hear the directions loud and clear on your car speakers rather than on the built-in speakers on the GPS units. Hands-free phone, XM radio, MP3 and OnStar turn-by-turn directions all work together so seamlessly. I know it is perhaps difficult to find a portable GPS that works with your stereo but I am not sure if the Garmin 880 or any other system can do that. So my question is: Are there any voice interface accessories, other than the FM transmitter, that can be used to integrate the sound system with the GPS?
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Replying to: bwia (Jun 29, 2008 2:14 pm) Any portable GPS like TomTom, Nuvi and the likes are not perfect either. If you want to see these devices fail miserably, try to find your way out of the Sumner Tunnel or Callahan Tunnel in Boston City, MA, (especially if you are heading to Logan International) assuming you don’t know your way around. All of these tiny devices go dead under the Lincoln and Holland tunnels in New York City as well; a weak point where the Avalon’s system excels. Again my point is, nothing is perfect. Many complaints about the Avalon’s GPS and I fully understand why. To me it is almost perfect because I understand it, and it has never failed me so far. Almost perfect because I did notice a glitch (no wonder Toyota honored my complaint to my full satisfaction). Amaury '08 Limited
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Replying to: amauhry (Jun 29, 2008 5:39 pm) |
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Replying to: bwia (Jun 29, 2008 2:14 pm) bob |
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I complained to my dealer about the ver 6.1 nav software. They tell me they will sell me ver 7.1 for $299...no special deals just because I bought the car from them two weeks ago. Nice guys! The dealer says it has more secondary roads available for navigation...not just display. They cannot tell me specifics about the new roads added. I am tempted to upgrade...but I am wondering when the next version of the nav software/database will come out. It appears Toyota has released a new version almost every year. My ver 6.1 is dated 2006 and ver 7.1 was apparently released in Oct 2007. Will there be a Gen 3 ver 8.1 coming out in October of this year? Have any of you downloaded the Gen 2 & 3 ver 7.1 from the www.mininova.org site, created a DVD and successfully used it in an Avalon Limited to replace Gen 3 ver 6.1? Several folks on that site have apparently done so...but they appear to be super techies...that know DVD software and hardware inside and out. jordanfl Avalon Limited '08
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