Sat Nav directions - can you get them altered?

DullGreyGuy

Lara said:

RumRat said:

What SatNav?

Car sat nav’s.  

So what car inc year?

How are you setting your destination? Postcode? Pin drop?

victor2

Lara said:

RumRat said:

What SatNav?

Car sat nav’s.  

Different car manufacturers use different map suppliers for their Sat Nav systems.

For a number of years, one Sat Nav system had a neighbouring street postcode pointing to our street. We quite often got delivery drivers turning up at our door with a puzzled look as they could see the street name was different to the delivery address. "Next right" was my standard greeting to such people! Eventually it got sorted.

The best you can do in the meantime is add a note to orders you place for delivery that many Sat Nav systems go to the wrong road.

400ixl

Is this for your car's sat nav, and do you park at your garage? Many learn locations so home would become where the car is mainly parked at the home location.

Or is this visitors putting in you home postcode and house number into their cars (and is this plural or a single car)?

daveyjp

A friend is a highway engineer and a few days after a new housing estate opened he was getting complaints that satnav was sending people down a street which had no through route, it was two streets joined only by a footpath.

This was a Google maps issue as they update their base maps very quickly.  He sent them a message and within 24 hours the mapped street had been changed to a cul de sac so no more sat nav issues.

Lara

Murmansk said:

It may not answer the question but What3Words will direct people to a precise location

Thank you.  Strangely enough I have done that, where possible, but it still alerts people to the dead end road.  Not all places have the availability of allowing you to add What3Words.  We have a delivery coming this week from a big store and I have this morning phoned them to give specific delivery details, as they don’t have anywhere to add W3W to the delivery address. 

Lara

cerebus said:

Is it all sat navs that are having the same issue?

Sometimes using a slightly different postcode directs you to the correct place

It is if people haven’t been here before.  Hence I tell them which road to go via or explain if they add a different door number they will find us.   We’re only a small cul de sac!  

Lara

DullGreyGuy said:

Lara said:

RumRat said:

What SatNav?

Car sat nav’s.  

So what car inc year?

How are you setting your destination? Postcode? Pin drop?

It isn’t my car, it’s the Sat Nav’s in other peoples cars and delivery vans.  Amazon/DPD/ don’t have any trouble though! 😂😂

RumRat

Lara said:

DullGreyGuy said:

Lara said:

RumRat said:

What SatNav?

Car sat nav’s.  

So what car inc year?

How are you setting your destination? Postcode? Pin drop?

It isn’t my car, it’s the Sat Nav’s in other peoples cars and delivery vans.  Amazon/DPD/ don’t have any trouble though! 😂😂

Then the answer to your question is NO you can't, unless you poll every driver who goes the wrong way and find out what they are using. Then finding out if their system allows changes, not something that can be answered accurately on this forum, or any other, without the full information...
Amazon and DPD use Google maps.                                                                                                       

victor2

A lot of built-in car Sat Navs don't update automatically like Google maps does. For example, my car has a map which is about two years old and won't be updated unless I pay the dealer an extortionate amount of money for a map that will immediately be out of date. So the chances are that my system will send me up that same dead end and will never do otherwise until I update it, which I have no plans to do.

If I used Google Maps, it would probably be right, but that's clumsy to use in a car with a built in system (and without the facility to mirror the phone screen, before anyone suggests that. )

EnPointe

Murmansk said:

It may not answer the question but What3Words will direct people to a precise location

and  unless  it's provided in writing  that will often be a precisely wrong location 

https://www.revk.uk/2021/04/what-three-words.html