Suppport Thread for the TND 500, TND 700 or future Rand McNally products.

Is this update going to have US-75 in southern Okahoma fixed? Meaning
through Okmulgee and on south to Henryetta, OK. Currently the unit is
calling it US-62 and when you head south to Okmulgee and get about
mid-way
through that city it wants you to take a left on another highway I
forget
the name or number of it. But the unit is calling the highway that runs
north and south through Okmulgee and Henryetta US-62 when in fact it is
US-75, that's what everyone and their brother knows it as is US-75,
through
the city of Okmulgee it is also called Wood. But when you get to that
mid-way point in Okmulgee where the unit wants to direct you to make
that
left turn if you are heading south and you ignore it and stay on US-75
going
south the unit says "Weight Violation" and it won't recalculate the
route.
It is not weight restricted there, it is posted good for 43 tons. I
first
used the tell rand option or by email from their site, I forget which,
about
this when their first units came out with the 5" screen that I had and
it
seems like it has been a couple years ago and they responded by email
saying
they will correct this. Now fast forward and I bought another unit, the
700,
it still isn't corrected, even after I mentioned it to you Mark about 5
or 6
months ago. Thought I would try to tell you after messaging Rand about
it
and not corrected. But it still isn't corrected. I know nothing is
perfect
or going to be, but after telling Rand about this and some time later
mentioning it to you Mark, it still isn't fixed is a little bit of
annoyance
cause I travel that way multiple times a week so I deal with it for
awhile.
I am not trying to offend anyone, just been dealing with this one
annoyance
for a very long time and on two seperate units I have purchased. Would
just
love to see it fixed! Thanks.

 

Wish hard enough and Santa may bring.....

Thanks,
Mark

 

The TND does not uplink back to Rand, thus any data gleaned from the traffic receivers is input only to the TND.

The question has been raised also - can I be tracked via the TND - no.

Thanks,
Mark

 

Predictive Traffic is just past data that has been compiled from various sources to give an "future" guess as to what the traffic has shown in the past. How well that data is is depended on how the information was gathered.

To gather data with a traffic receiver and save it in the TND for future upload via the Dock would take up flash space. If you send it daily, then the load would not be so great, but if you do every two weeks, then the TND would run out of flash space in a hurry.

With the Traffic receiver you can go real time, but that is depended on the transmitting stations and how well they adapting to the changing road conditions. Will it be perfect - no, but, I have a traffic receiver and it does work well.

WalMart does have the colored Duct tape in stock.....

Thanks,
Mark

 

Some of the features that will be available to existing 500/700 owners
in a free update within the next couple of months are:

- Search addresses by ZIP code in U.S. and 3 digit Postal code in Canada
- Multi-stop full route preview
- Mile markers
- Additional routing option
- Destination entry by latitude/longitude

Features on the 510/710 only are:

- Truck Services search
- Predicted Traffic (710 only)
- Custom location import
- Virtual Dashboard
- Shaded relief, showing mountains and terrain when zoomed out
- Latest Rand McNally map data

 

Is this TND doing this all the time,, lagging ahead or behind?

Thanks,
Mark