SAT Nav POI

[parsen66]

Having lived with my A4 for nearly two weeks, I think that the Sat Nav is great, however it lacks some of the POI i'd loaded onto my Tom Tom unit, such as speed cameras etc. Is it possible to load your own POI into the cars system?

Other than that I would say that the information it gives you back is much better than the Tom Tom. Is it worth £2000, I doubt it. I have the luxury of it being a company car and not having to shell out for such things.

[jcb]

what do you mean by the "info it gives you back". surely telling you where to turn and getting it right is all you need ?? !!!

[parsen66]

Yes of course that is basically what its job is. The best feature for me is that it 'listens' for the traffic reports from the radio and uses that info to re-plan your route to avoid any major delays.

The display is really clear and crisp, only showing what you need to see.

Some more POI's would be nice though.

[jcb]

isnt the traffic avoidance system based on TMC ? if so isnt this the same system as tomtom or is it different ?

[BMWBig6]

What, the SATNAV on the Audi A4 includes traffic alerts/avoidance???

[AndyE66]

What, the SATNAV on the Audi A4 includes traffic alerts/avoidance???

The one on the UK-spec model I borrowed when my satnav-less car was having cruise retrofitted certainly did.

[Sheroo]

I can confirm the Sat-Nav has traffic alerts, it also tries to re-calculate a different route though I still end up hitting traffic because every other b*gger is trying the other routes also !

It displays the particular congested zone with read lines along the route, it's pretty cool.

[_steve]

thats the big problem with traffic avoidance alerts on sat navs, i've used tomtom traffic, tomtom tmc, alpine with tmc, and audi with tmc, they all ask you to leave the motorway you're travelling on, as it detects a 15 min delay up ahead, putting you onto an A or a B road, where there are no traffic monitoring cameras, and so the nav can't actually tell you the new route its calculated is congested by folks with TMC, or local knowledge, and you're actually in a 20 minute queue.

Tomtom traffic was a pain the backside, on more than one occasion it asked me to leave a road, then i hit another queue, then it asked me to get back on the original road as the congestion had cleared. ! :) Grrr

I don't think there's an answer to this problem, unless every car is tracked and this data is shared real time so all routed can be calculated - i bet the government want all cars tracked for road pricing purposes, but there will be no data sharing allowed i reckon.

[browellm]

Check out Tom Tom's new traffic and IQ routes functionality. They are attempting to do exactly that!

[mjb-a4]

I think main question here has not been answered :confused:

Can you load up the POI (Points Of Interest) i.e. speed camera database, where the supermarkets and hotels are.

A lot of companies have got wise to Sat-Nav now and include a file of 'Sat-Nav' info that can be download from the internet and installed on 'tomtom etc'.

How else would you find where to get a Mcdonalds 'Bacon an Egg with large Coffee' first thing in the morning, try just clickin below.

http://www.gps-data-team.com/poi/united_kingdom/restaurants/

But can this info be downloaded into an Audi 'Sat-Nav', I guess it would have to be by CD/DVD.

Who has the answer?

Anyone?

:confused:

[parsen66]

Although I like a healthy discussion about the state of our roads and the ever increasing charges to drive on them, I would like an answer to my original question. Thanks to MJB for bringing it back, surely someone out there has the answer, either yes or no.

[alexcf]

I bought a Novus Alpha device for Cameras and stuff.. It's actually pretty neat, nice and small, oh and more amusingly, fits PERFECTLY in that little gap under the arm rest, the little ledge by the hinges. :)

Saved me a couple of times as it warned me about possible mobile camera zones, and "oh by gum lad", it weren't half wrong :)