Sync Navigation Prompts are broken

[zhackwyatt]

Because it is far superior IMO. I am a heavy navigation user and the Ford nav is by far the best that I have ever seen. I especially like how it auto zooms based on speed and will show me exactly which entrance to use at a shopping center to get closer to my suite address and the HOV lane integration is very helpful. The other nav software wants to route me on surface streets because freeway traffic is heavy but the Ford nav knows the HOV lane is free flowing and routes me on that lane instead. Yes, it tells me exactly which lane I should be in. Very nice.

Live traffic is awesome as well. Uncanny how accurate that is. It will show heavy traffic on just the southbound lane while free flowing on the northbound lanes.....not just highways, surface streets too.

I like it, except the map data is garbage. It comes from Here maps. My company changed names in 2015, the maps still have the old name. They only just updated this year.

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[krafty81]

I use google maps on my Android Auto sometimes. The display is fine and it does show next turn on the instrument cluster. What I do not like is the tiny button to go back and forth from Tidal App back to Google maps. I am starting to use Ford nav more.

 

[SnBGC]

I like it, except the map data is garbage. It comes from Here maps. My company changed names in 2015, the maps still have the old name. They only just updated this year.

In a weird quirk of fate.....that actually has no effect on me(usually). Since we make signs, chances are that whatever business I am heading to is changing their name anyway.
But yeah, I noticed that too. A new favorite restaurant moved and when I tried to use voice commands to that spot it wanted to take me to their old address.

 

[NewGuy]

I find the car GPS to be more accurate than my iphone in city center with large buildings and its generally pretty good. Also, google maps doesnt put the next direction on the instrument panel. If the car had a native Spotify app I wouldnt use carplay at all. The switching between the ford nav and carplay for music/podcasts is pretty clunky.

CarPlay uses the car’s GPS, so accuracy should be the same. Apple Maps puts the next direction in the instrument panel. I’ll check out the native nav though. Only time I used it was when I first test drove, and it had the dealer on the wrong side of a divided highway.

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