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[sharpsicle]

Even more messed up, I-19 in AZ is in kilometers, so the “undocumented” know how far it is to Tucson.

That's not why it's in kilometers. It was labelled like that to help with Mexican tourists travelling to the US in the late 70s. I know that's not as much fun to talk about, but it 100% isn't due to illegal immigration.

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[sharpsicle]

Sure it is ?

You dropped this...

 

[sharpsicle]

Is that the new pc word? “Tourists”?

No. You clearly must be trolling, right?

... As the Associated Press reported earlier this month, the highway's embrace of the metric system dates to the Carter administration. The idea was to make the interstate more accessible to tourists coming from Mexico, where kilometers are the standard unit of measuring distances...

 

[ShadowsPapa]

You have a Jeep, you shouldn’t need maps to tell you where to go. Make your own path. ??‍

If you don't know where you're going, any road will take you there (George Harrison)

Hasn't anyone ever watched the off road pages splash screen? Maybe lost, never stuck.

 

[ShadowsPapa]

I see your point. When you can drive through the entire state in an hour though, it's a bit pointless. Your never far from anything.

Drive through KS or NE and have an accident - you are always miles from anything. They need a way to find you. Even Florida - HOURS on the road from the north end to the south end.
And there has to be standards............ if it's every state for themselves, MO may start numbering from N to south, and E to west while Iowa north of them starts the opposite.
Altoona, Iowa is a great example of total confusion - 8th Avenue in Altoona goes north and south, but get out of Altoona, and it's west to east. That town does avenues and streets the opposite of the county they are in. People get lost in that little city. They hit 8th street and because it's east and west through town like the rest of us are, they can't figure out why they aren't finding 1245 8th Avenue. Sorry, they never will going that way.

That's not why it's in kilometers. It was labelled like that to help with Mexican tourists travelling to the US in the late 70s. I know that's not as much fun to talk about, but it 100% isn't due to illegal immigration.

Not to mention people like my daughter-in-law who only knows kilometers - but is trying.......... She used to get lost driving home when she was less than 2 miles from home in Iowa.

Unreal there are still people who don't use Android Auto or Car Play.

If they make the giggle maps screen worth a shit I'd use it more. Plus the built-in nav puts things right in front of your face, no need to turn my head to look over at a radio screen (when you are blind in your right eye - even that bloody radio is a mile away from being seen)
There are reasons a lot of people don't always use that............... doubtful you care about that, though.
When Google allows us to customize the screen even a little bit - it might be useful, but why, when there's better stuff, easier to use.
AA was a pain in the butt to use - and Google keeps thinking we connect to use google maps and is in your face. Nope, if I connect it's for the music or for WAZE. Screw google maps.


Google maps was wrong in timing, miles, and arrival times going to CO. Google maps didn't allow us to see the greater view - google insists you must see what they want you to see, could never customize it or get that crap on the left side of the screen to totally GO AWAY and show only the map and at the resolution I wanted to see it in. Their focus groups need to be expanded outside of their own employees who toe the google line.
Waze is far better than Google maps (even though Google rapes and pillages every chance they get and owns almost everything now)

People also forget - there's thousands more Jeep owners and buyers than there are forum members. It's like forum members believe they represent the majority of Jeep owners and it's quite the opposite. My wife, my sister-in-law, my youngest brother - all Jeep and SUV people, yet they want that built-in NAV to work and will pay to update it.
My wife hates fumbling to make other stuff connect, she wants to get it, hit that nav button and go. No fussing with a connection, no launching another app, and AA isn't exactly trouble-free. You have to connect, launch the app, yes, you can talk your address in, but many I know would rather hit that nav button and go.
I'm a former IT admin, a tech guy, I there's times I want to smash AA and toss the phone out the window while driving at 90 mph to make sure of total destruction. But I can, with no added hardware, no cable, no wireless thing at added expense, use the build-in NAV hassle-free.
It's not without trouble, but the troubles haven't been as bad as AA has been.
Most Jeep owners aren't here in the forums, most aren't using these extras *(likely one reason Google hasn't really made it as good as it should be) People buy these, drive them, and use the built-in nav.
The forum members don't represent Jeep owners. We have to get over that thinking.

 

[LAJEEPR]

That's not why it's in kilometers. It was labelled like that to help with Mexican tourists travelling to the US in the late 70s. I know that's not as much fun to talk about, but it 100% isn't due to illegal immigration.

Yep, those legal tourists are the wealthy folks up from Sonora. They bring $1 Billion in revenue to businesses in Tucson. The illegals don't use the highways.

I am all for the mile markers. Having Driven 95 North-South, I-10 East-West and all over the western US multiple times, the best use is to know when you are in the last 10 miles before a state border because that is where all the speed traps are!

 

[Gatorized]

How long did you wait? The thing a ton of GPS users always did wrong was they rushed out to buy updates as soon as they noticed a change on the roads. These things need time to proliferate, so if you do it too soon then it's unreasonable to expect the new maps to have the changes right away. In some cases it can take up to a year for this proliferation to get all the way to integrated nav maps.

I have a 2020 delivered in 2019… just got the update recently. You would think when they send you a notification that an update is available it would actually be new data… it is when I update the maps on my garmin.

 

[jwilson2899]

I took advantage of the $99 sale price, last August, when my truck was two years old. The regular price is $149. I used the NAV a lot when I first got the truck. I later switched to Android Auto and Google maps. It is nice to have one that works when there is no cellular service. I recommend an update every two years. The map update also includes a Uconnect update to the latest version. Another reason to periodically pay for the map update.

These are all basically reasons why I did the update myself. I do venture places where there is little or no cell service, so it's great having these as backup. The software update is nice too, plus unlike the maps it's not VIN locked, so I updated the radio in my wife's Durango too.

 

[Gezer]

My 2020 gps sucks out loud. Never understands a thing I say. I use garment or my phone. Also if they put the thing in the vehicle they should be responsible for the updates. but I’m old and cranky about every thing. Have a good one.

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