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

Mark let me start by saying sorry for the way I posted that. I shouldn't post when tired.

Anyhow West 15th Avenue gary IN just off of the 912. A few truck companies have terminals there. The exit and ramp onto the 912 is right there where my yard is! You can see it from the yard. Yet the TND 700 will route you way out of the way if you want to get onto the 912. Even if you ignore the GPS, it will recalculate and send you way off in another direction. IE North when you want to go South.

I think most errors I have will disappear as map errors are found. But that's just another reason to give drivers an easy way to "Point and choose" waypoints right on the map.

Thanks Mark. Your answers are timely.

 

Morning Mark.

Well I updated the TND500 and am not sure how I feel about it now. I am still experiancing the occasional lag and the routing continues to befuddle me. The following routing for fastest isn't---

Liberal, Ks to Roseville, MN: US54-US283-US56-KS156-I70-US81-I80-I35

Way I actually went: US54-KS61-US50-I35

With respect, you need to impress on RM the need for pratical routing-which encompasses elements of both Fastest ans Shortest depnding on origin/ destination points. Looks to me ( sorry, this is my opinion though) that RM mostly dealt with the eye-candy issues and not much really substantive. So, thinking I am going to put it up for a while and monitor this list and see where they go from here.

Mark (but not the same Mark)

 

Mark found an error in the course of a trip.... this one happens all the time. Iowa highway 60 from the Minnesota line to about 20 miles into Iowa is a recently completed interstate type road now.... yet as I take this route, it will actually show me going off the highway and traveling through a field till it rejoins 60.

No GPS, no electronic piece of equipment will ever be perfect, but wanted to let you know I continued to be impressed with the TND700. Just wish it would have been available when I first bought a truck GPS back in march.

 

Some thing I have noted with version 1573

When having the unit calculate a route in fast or short, the results are all the same.

Did any changes get made to the software that does the route calculations?

Any news on when a map data update may be available?

 

I want to velco my rnd 500 to the dash to get it out of the window. my pikepass, prepass, kansas pass. aww to much in my window. so i ordered the external antenna. but i cant velcro it to the dashboard like i want due to the cord coming out back words. it wont sit flush with my current cord. any way i can buy or get a cord without the 90 bend in it?

 

I'd like to thank Mark, Don at Dieselboss, and especially Don Sr. all who made my tnd 500 exchange possible.