Ever since I had the "Call Waiting" upgrade done on my '11 Max I swear the position of my icon on the NAV screen seems off. Viewing the position of my icon as it relates to street intersections I am consistently behind the actual position. IOW, I pass the street before my icon shows my position on the screen. I am using 1/16th map scale, BTW, which is the default screen size.

The location is fine as far as being on the street, it's only a lag in location that appears. I make a turn and the icon corrects itself. In tight streets I've made wrong turns a couple of times because of this.

I've tried correcting my location using the manual adjustments but it does not help. I've also rest my NAV defaults.

My imagination? Curious how others see their icon position. Thx.

 

Hmmmm....I've never noticed mine being off on my 2010. I just had my nav software updated per TSB.

 

The only time I have had such a problem was when I was in areas where trees or overhead structures or close by multi-story buildings or tunnels or heavy clouds/storms blocked the nav from seeing the satellites, or when I was changing elevation drastically in a short period of time.

Even when I am on roads not on the current edition of the nav maps (which I frequently am), my arrow tends to keep fairly accurate position.

Remember that your 'position' is at the front tip of the arrow designating your position, not at the center of the icon.

Let us know if this problem persists, and you can't see any reason for it. You should not be having this problem.

 

Thx for the replies. Will speak with my dealer about possibly reloading the update "just in case". Otherwise I think I'm just being a little obsessive (not the first time...).

 

I have never felt the icon was that accurate, but I had an 06 with Nissan Nav and maybe Im just use to it, if 2 roads are close the icon gets confused, mine seems like it self adjust, cloudy days and humidity mess it up as well as extreme cold

 

I'm feeling better and better....thx.

 

my icon has usually been pretty accurate of where i am. what gets me is sometimes the navigation tells you to do stupid things. ive had it several times now drive me in a big circle because it didnt know how to tell me to use a side street (that it HAD on the map lol). i use Google Nav on my tablet now and havent looked back

 

my 2012 at times its off but auto correct its self pretty fast... the only reason how I noticed it was because I was the passenger I was like wtf!

For the ones that claim doesnt do it be the passenger and go for a spin see if does it.

 

Actually, I am the passenger half the time, as my wife and I share the driving. When she is driving, I tinker with the nav - mostly the maps, as I collect maps (I have thousands, much to my wife's dismay), and worked as a cartographer (mapmaker) at one time way back in the distant past.

Maps are a lot of fun. Always something interesting. I was comparing my 1935 Standard Oil map of Nevada with my 2008 map of Nevada the other evening, and back in 1935, there was a large Clark County Game Ranch northwest of Las Vegas. On current maps, that area has a different name - Frenchman Flats Nuclear Testing Range.

I can almost predict when my nav arrow will deviate from where it should be, because it is either when we don't have a clear view of a satellite or are making convoluted turns, especially if we are on a street that is not on the nav, but which is close to a street which IS on the nav.

I love the maps on my nav, but would really appreciate being able to have it show all roads and streets. At least the ones that are more than four or five years old. But then roads shouldn't be added casually. I was using my nav to take back roads from Myrtle Beach SC to Meridian MS a few years back, and when I tried to take a road clearly shown as a through road on the nav, after several miles, it turned to gravel, then dirt, then dead-ended at the gate of a pig sty. Those pigs stared like they had never seen a 7th gen Maxima before.

 

I do get what ur saying there is a road near me that google, mapquest, both cars with nav clearly states its a straight road however that road comes to a dead end on both sides (tons of achres in between)... So my guess is maybe at one point of its life they connected??? lol

 

My 2010 seems pretty accurate, but i agree with the previous poster that sometimes 2 roads close together seem to confuse it.