Hi,
been reading this forum for a while and some great info, anyway just traded my 2019
cupra ateca for a new shape comfort and sound with pan roof and copper alloys, picked it up yesterday but for the life of me I can’t work the new sat nav. postcode searches show gps type locations and have to do advanced search to get a true address, is that how the new system works.
also when being shown multiple routes how do you pick the one you want. The manual is next to useless and thought with having one already would be easy to pickup, from what I can see it’s similar to the Forementor sat nav.
any advise would be great
thanks
chris
I had a demo in one with mib3 and I am suppose to be the board expert on sat nav... well mib2. When we got an address in it went in on the top bar... just start typing. The form filling on mib2 never worked too well... but the box like a Google search is your best bet, not form based - that's an old mib2 mistake. Street name, number, town etc. Might be esoteric lists as in Mib2 You can press a button to show alternatives based on what you have typed in so far, check for that.
Here Maps isn't hot on postcodes. They get digitised in to six characters from memory not the seven you need for England, eight for Scotland. Basically the field used is the same one for large zones in Europe not postman's walks which is what postcodes are. Thus unless the people that implement Here Maps cartography for the car's system use a postcode directory sourced from somewhere else there is a fair chance that the six characters covers more than one street. Not accurate enough.
Where Here Maps has the house number digitised then that should be more precise than the street. I put them bang on the roof of the building when I house number on Here Maps and the routing point either on the drive in or slap bang in the middle of the house front. If the streets isn't house numbered then you get just the street. I'd steer away from postcodes.
The Here We Go app is a live implementation of Here Maps so you can compare how that does it with the car's system. Mib3 is Here Maps.
On route option if it's still using the colour code route options, red is the quickest but can be further, orange the shortest... rural areas stick to red so it doesn't lead you up poor roads.
I note it supports way points according to the manual, mib2 high did, mib2 standard didn't, that and routes are useful when you start a trip with multiple destinations.
Attached is the selection I reckon you use from the manual. The magnifying glass I reckon is the box search, preferable, whilst the form view 'Entering the detailed destination for an address' is the problematic one. Icon attached. You will have more luck with the box search on house number, street name etc than postcode. The form menu was the one that wasn't great and confused people. Reckon you might get a good tally between the search function on Here We Go app and the search box of the car. I'd digitised a hotel in which we found in the car which then made it clear that mib3 was using Here Maps rather than TomTom... my entrance road and car park layout. I'd got tired of people missing the turn on a country walk
... did something about it.
