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(More customer reviews)Warning to everyone, Magellan has just switched over to TELE ATLAS maps and no longer with NAVTEQ as of October 2010. I bought a second 3045 LM unit: the first 3045-LM had NAVTEQ (bought one month ago in September) and the second unit bought 2 days ago had TELE ATLAS. I ran the 2 units side by side and there was a huge difference in routing. The TELE ATLAS unit had terrible routing: it would take me on some insane routes that made no sense that were often circuitous and long. The NAVTEQ unit on the other hand had perfect routing. In addition, there was no true re-routing on the TELE ATLAS unit: it would try to force me to take a U-turn. The NAVTEQ unit would re-route perfectly. To sum up, I would avoid buying any new Magellan units as the latest 5045's (and 3045's) now use TELE ATLAS maps and the routing is terrible compared to the previous 5045's (and 3045's) manufactured a month ago, which have NAVTEQ maps. All the 5045's are not the same: the ones manufactured within the past several weeks have the TELE ATLAS Maps and terrible routing but the 5045's manufactured one month or so ago have NAVTEQ maps which have excellent routing. You should call customer service to confirm that Magellan is now using Tele Atlas and complain, as anyone who bought LIFETIME maps will be affected. I had just converted over from Garmin and was very happy with the Magellan NAVTEQ unit, but the newest Magellan units all have TELE ATLAS and have terribly inept routing. When reading through these reviews, I caution everyone to be mindful as to when the unit was manufactured: a rave review may be referring to a NAVTEQ unit that was manufactured one month ago as opposed to the new TELE ATLAS unit that was manufactured more recently.
In order to see if you have a TeleAtlas versus NAVTEQ unit, Go to Menu, then hit the "tools" button, scroll down to "Product Information", then you will see "Base Map Version 41", which will indicate that this is TeleAtlas. The Navteq version of the 5045/3045/3055/3065 units will have "Base Map Version 39"
ADDENDUM 10/30/10
i just wanted to alert amazon for suspicion of fake reviews on the Magellan 5045 gps. I wrote a 1 star review exposing the fact that Magellan made a major switch mid-model cycle to Tele Atlas Maps from Navteq maps, and subsequently, the map routing has taken a major turn for the worse. I find it odd that from June 2010 to October 28, there were only 26 reviews. The day after I write a one star review, all of a sudden...concidentally...27 more reviews pop up in 3 days between October 29th and 31st, most of which are lauding it with 4-5 stars (and most of them written by people who have never written a review before). I find it suspicous and wonder if these are fake 5 star reviews written by Magellan in order to "bury" my one star review. It's just odd that only 26 reviews were written in 5 months and then after my 1 star review was written, 27 more reviews (mostly 5 star) suddenly appeared.
You may see a full discussion of Magellan's unexpected move to TeleAtlas maps at the gpspassion.com forum. The news is posted on their front page news:
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