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Teleatlas VS Navteq
Lots of people are thrashing teleatlas on here and I'd like to give a fair review, in fact someone is in here from PA saying they aren't accurate and that's bull****. I live in Jersey Shore Pa, I very rural town of only 3,000 people, I can tell you some differences I've experienced between teleatlas and navteq.
Navteq has no speed llimits in my area on any of the roads, though rte 220 and 180 are major highways, infact I180 is an interstate, no excuse for navteq to not have a speed limit on an interstate.
Teleatlas and navteq use different road ids for the color schemes. This is something that people fail to mention when they tell you about map changers, they are useless to me because they'd also have to change every single scheme in the igo folder to properly color the roads.
Teleatlas has WAY more details, the roadsigns on the highway can get a little annoying (I wish i could adjust the distance they were displayed), but there are more roads in the scheme color.ini used than with navteq. Teleatlas covers sidestreets in my town with a different color, navteq does not. However both of these maps can't id a unpaved road if they had to, the feature in igo to avoid unpaved roads in the USA has always been, and always will be useless till teleatlas or navteq learn what an unpaved road is. Both of these two companies id 100 year old logging roads that you can't drive on as paved roads, very stupid.
I'd have to say route calculation based on teleatlas having way more roads with speed limits has to be more accurate than navteqs lack of speed limits just about everywhere.
Teleatlas has more errors though, like for example, there's a street that's been here for 32 years in jersey shore pa that navteq has right, however, teleatlas says that it's a dead end when well, I'm looking out my house window, it's not a dead end, and never has been...
People in this forum claimed older versions of teleatlas kept jumping southbound/northbound when driving on a road, this hasn't happened to me at all with the newer versions.
1 road in a 50 mile radius has elevation with navteq, every major road has elevation with teleatlas.
My conclusion from using both maps for about 2 weeks now:
Teleatlas is the way to go for Pa, at least where I live. It might have some glitches here and there, but it makes up for it with it's unmatched level of detail that navteq fails to have. It uses more seperate road ids, more sign posts, more elevations, more speed limits, etc.
Navteq is extremely accurate, but also has glitches. It tries to take me up logging roads sometimes in a 300zx, if I attempted to do so, I'd tear the entire car apart, both of them do this, but I'm just saying, NAVTEQ isn't perfect either...
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