Basic Question

[RJG]

Sorry if this is too basic....or maybe answer W/B obvious if I studied owners manual more closely.

 

We have new 2012 Edge Limited with NAV. It's wife's car mostly. She only uses voice for phone, uses touch for other controls. Thinks it's just faster and simpler to do it that way. She's not particularly impressed with all these features....it's just a vehicle to her. She does think hands free phone is a nice safety feature. I'm the one who is impressed with the system.

 

My question is about the NAV. I have a bean bag mounted (easy to stuff out of sight) portable Garmin Nuvi 750 I always used in the past. A model before free map updates, but does offer free POI updates. It has most featues of Edge unit....voice turn by turn, expanded intersections, etc. I did pay for one map update recently.....and before every trip, I update the Garmin POI's for new gas stations, restaurants, lodging, speed limit changes, the like. So my portable unit has excellent updated maps and most recent POI's. I understand we will soon have new map updates in our Edge, but how do you regularly update POI's? Especially lodging? If I go to lodging and make a motel a destination, would like to be sure it's recent data. That is feature I use a lot. Can you go to Sync my Ride with SD chip for updates, or are they automatically updated thru sync? Or Sirius? Is everything "live" except maps. We plan to keep the vehicle 4-5 years, and we plan to keep the subscriptions to Sirius and Synch up. Maybe even do a map update at some point thru dealership. I have XM in my vehicle, so maybe I can get a deal from Sirius/XM for both at same time. Appreciate your patience with this question.

Edited February 5, 2012 by RJG

[jeffdelta]

Sorry if this is too basic....or maybe answer W/B obvious if I studied owners manual more closely.

 

We have new 2012 Edge Limited with NAV. It's wife's car mostly. She only uses voice for phone, uses touch for other controls. Thinks it's just faster and simpler to do it that way. She's not particularly impressed with all these features....it's just a vehicle to her. She does think hands free phone is a nice safety feature. I'm the one who is impressed with the system.

 

My question is about the NAV. I have a bean bag mounted (easy to stuff out of sight) portable Garmin Nuvi 750 I always used in the past. A model before free map updates, but does offer free POI updates. It has most featues of Edge unit....voice turn by turn, expanded intersections, etc. I did pay for one map update recently.....and before every trip, I update the Garmin POI's for new gas stations, restaurants, lodging, speed limit changes, the like. So my portable unit has excellent updated maps and most recent POI's. I understand we will soon have new map updates in our Edge, but how do you regularly update POI's? Especially lodging? If I go to lodging and make a motel a destination, would like to be sure it's recent data. That is feature I use a lot. Can you go to Sync my Ride with SD chip for updates, or are they automatically updated thru sync? Or Sirius? Is everything "live" except maps. We plan to keep the vehicle 4-5 years, and we plan to keep the subscriptions to Sirius and Synch up. Maybe even do a map update at some point thru dealership. I have XM in my vehicle, so maybe I can get a deal from Sirius/XM for both at same time. Appreciate your patience with this question.

 

I think it is a great question. There is little info on the Ford navigation and Sirius Travel Services.

 

My understanding, the Sirius Travel Services are a separate renewal from the Sirius music service.

 

I also have the navigation and am unsure what is the Ford navigation service and what is only provided by the Sirius Travel Service.

[rwolson]

Hopefully, future versions of MFT allow us to add our own POIs, etc. No way in the current system. I still use a Garmin too on long trips so I can use update to date POIs, etc.

 

Finally, I too wonder when using MFT Nav what's Ford and when Sirius takes over.