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  • Lifetime map updates

    30 73.17%

  • 3D terrain view

    13 31.71%

  • 3-D buildings and landmarks view

    13 31.71%

  • Routes (real ones) from pc

    21 51.22%

  • Trip Planner

    15 36.59%

  • Voice-activated navigation

    12 29.27%

  • Lane assist

    35 85.37%

  • Junction view

    29 70.73%

  • myTrends&trafficTrends

    13 31.71%

  • ecoRoute

    7 17.07%

  • Route avoidance

    11 26.83%

  • Garmin nüLink! services

    3 7.32%

  • Enhanced pedestrian navigation

    9 21.95%

  • Where Am I?

    14 34.15%

  • Photo navigation

    8 19.51%

  • Garmin Lock

    6 14.63%

  • Custom POIs

    25 60.98%

  • Exit services

    9 21.95%

  • MP3 player,Video Player,Audio book player

    5 12.20%

  • Smartphone Link services

    12 29.27%
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  1. 9th April 2013, 12:53 AM #1
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    Quote Originally Posted by Kanopus View Post
    As Giomen has noticed, ALG on this video is wrong, it suggest that you have only one line to choose, while 2 lines are correct.
    I do not understand a situation on screen even in home armchair on 19" monitor!
    I think it may be very useful for famous Garmin charade only: Keep left! Then keep right! (Moving to one of middle exits). Usual JCV is useless in this case and only birdseye may give several instruction. But I would see if it is so for ALG...
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  2. 9th April 2013, 02:19 AM #2
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    Quote Originally Posted by Kanopus View Post
    As Giomen has noticed, ALG on this video is wrong, it suggest that you have only one line to choose, while 2 lines are correct. .....
    Sorry, but i can't see that it is anything other that exemplary correct. Watch it again, at ~6 sec into the video the LA is warning that in 0.6 miles the vehicle needs to be in the inner (second) right lane of 5 lanes:

    alg06

    Then an upcoming added left lane shows on the ALG, so the truck would correctly be in the far right lane of the presently 4 lanes which is about to become the inner (second) right of 5 lanes as was previously predicted by LA about half a mile back:

    alg27

    Finally, at the end of the video, we can see that there are now five lanes of which the two right lanes can take the first exit but only the inner right can take the second exit which is the truck's route:

    alg41


    ........ Other notice - while ALG can invoke some nice reminiscences to ZX Spectrum, its animation is completely useless, it doesn't give any more information than static LA. Or maybe Garmin expect, that when you notice approaching exit on far end of ALG you will stay watching animation for some seconds?
    So it does give more info than the static LA and in fact compliments, reinforces and builds on the LA info, and there's no need to stay watching, it lets you glance back and forth to quickly assess your position well in advance and so imo it's not useless, not completely or even slightly. It's a great tool for truckies stuck in the wrong lane in unfamiliar territory. Unknowing drivers may well move over immediately into the added right lane and be then be forced to exit one before the intended ramp. You can't duck around in a double-B or 22-wheeler semi like Giomen can in his Maserati.

    @Giomen, did you mean leftmost (far left) lane? Or is that a typo and should be rightmost (far right). What would trucks be doing in the fast lane with the 'rabbits' anyway?? [I'm thinking the rabbits are 'lane-hoppers', maybe?].

    I have the utmost respect for you two guys, but i think you've being perhaps a little too quick to judge this feature and particularly from the point of view of heavy vehicle drivers. It's more dismissible to car drivers perhaps as they can lane-hop more freely. This is a real benefit, not useless eye-candy as is JCV imo. I don't wish to offend anyone and i'll defend everybody's entitlement to an opposing opinion, but if you re-watch the video carefully imagining you're behind the wheel of even just a big rigid, you may see things a bit differently.
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  3. 9th April 2013, 02:30 AM #3
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    I was commenting your previous video. But it looks like ALG can't show more then single lane, it could be crowded

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  4. 9th April 2013, 02:49 AM #4
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    Ok, that makes sense for your comment now. Sorry for that, i see what you mean now. I misunderstood because you had mentioned Giomen, and his comment was made immediately after Caty's video, and before my video.
    But every cloud has a silver lining, examining the first video carefully shows the real benefit of ALG for truckies ....... [i reckon]
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  5. 9th April 2013, 12:07 PM #5
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    I'm supporter of simplification idea. Especially for device like car navigation, where you can't watch it all the time but you only get a glimpses of current situation. I prefer map over quasi real rendering, icon over 3D building, LA over JCV.

    Garmin goes other way, it drops simplification for marketing show. It makes devices which looks funny when you toy with them in a shop but adds features, which can be annoying in a real use. And in many cases these features are handicapped, like trips without VIA or single-line ALG.

    What I like in nuvis is that you can remove most of gimmicks. If you find JCV distracting, you can remove its file. If you notice, that FastRouting damages routing in your county, you can remove its file. If traffictrends makes route calculation unreliable, you can disable it. If DEM shading makes rendering of map too slow, you can delete it. I hope that this nice feature of nuvi remains in new models and user will be able to disable ALG too.

    I prefer portrait mode. I wonder how does this new show look in portrait mode?
  6. 10th April 2013, 09:55 PM #6
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  7. 11th April 2013, 04:09 AM #7
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    Quote Originally Posted by Kanopus View Post
    I was commenting your previous video. But it looks like ALG can't show more then single lane, it could be crowded

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    I found it after viewing Rich Owings' review from Caty's post, which has a link to another of his reviews titled 'First look at the Garmin nuvi 2013 Advanced series':
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    Next up, let’s look at how the interface has changed. You can see active lane guidance in the screenshot at the top of this page. There was some concern that lane guidance would not show up in the next maneuver indicator, but as you can see, it is there. .........
    Surely it's the same across the 2/3x97 range and it's not just the 2597 that shows multiple lines on ALG, so i guess only some crucially complicated multiple lane exits get the extra pink lines, such as that pic which shows a major interstate duplex, I-75 spitting 3 lanes off and duplexing with I-85 near Atlanta to head downtown. Brother, that would not be a fun drive in morning peakhour if you were new to town.
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  8. 11th April 2013, 12:11 PM #8
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    I am an ald fashion guy and...my view is that the most important thing for a navigation is its mapping. What does it includs as a data, how is it structured, how is it routing etc.etc. So I have not choose any of the choices. Unfortunatelly, Garmin...Navteq...
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    @dddabcd277
    I agree totally with that sentiment. Good basics are way more important than fancy gee gaws ... but crikey mikey, it's fun to play with new toys, isn't it?
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    look at Navigon one (2010 video)
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