Bmw x5 marp11/29/2023 ![]() ![]() in car voice activated, in car touch or controller access, plus send from Connected Drive App. The App uses Google Maps so in effect you get the best of both worlds. ![]() If I don't know how to get to the destination I'm looking for, I often look on the Connected Drive App before I leave and send the destination to the car. ( some of which are repaired hail damaged write offs, which is a separate and rather long story ) So it was easy to select NZ as the default and saved having to buy a new map CD.Īnd there are plenty of ex Australia cars for sale here in NZ. I took.my 530i to to Sydney in 2004, and we brought my wife's 120i with Navi back from Sydney in 2013. 1% to about 14 decimal points of BMW owners moving cars overseas might not be so accurate. That being said, there are plenty of ex Australia cars in NZ and ex NZ cars in Australia. ![]() I can say "Hey BMW take me to Auckland" and it will just show me a central city address so I just select that. So I can't really see how that can happen, as you set the default to whichever country you are in.īut I've never tried looking for Auburn or Castle Hill, or saying Hey BMW, take me to Castle Hill, when I'm in New Zealand. As far as I know, the maps are restricted to Australia and NZ, or at least they are on my car. I've also never ever had BMW Navi direct me anywhere overseas. The RTTI seems to be very good in NZ, and I have never had any issues with Hey BMW not being able to find a cafe or petrol station or any other place. (The only thing Android Auto gave me was album art on Spotify.which doesn't really matter.I still get album and artist details just using my phone on Bluetooth.) the BMW native system does everything better imho. I used Android Auto for a week.or so after the upgrade 07.2020.60 upgrade, but never use it now. I've also found that with Android Auto, Hey Google doesn't give any better results. And I can't really expect BMW to have a NZ English and a Maori language option. But if the Personal Assistant is set to learn, it definitely improves over time. BMW is a bit hesitant learning Maori names in NZ.so I would expect it to be the same learning Aboriginal names in Australia. Well I certainly don't have anything to complain about with BMW Navi. While Google Maps to me is the best mapping app out there in every way, at least Apple Maps via Carplay offers turn by turn on HUD now, is pretty good in general, and can be voice activated just like BMW Maps. I have no proof, not having done a side by side comparison with Apple or Google, but if you're getting such infrequent map updates that's already a bad start.Īpple Maps and Google Maps are superior by a country mile to BMW Maps in my view. Dubious RTTI and other best-route intelligence. On that note, is it such a big ask to restrict addresses to Australia? I think 0.00000000000001% of Aussie BMW owners would ever take their cars overseas, and the elimination of other countries would increase accuracy considerably. You cannot do that with BMW Maps, she loses her sh*t and starts offering addresses in other countries and stuff. Sometimes I just want to navigate to a suburb in general ("Hey BMW, navigate to Auburn") because I know my way around there so I don't have a specific address or I don't know it. Excessive insistence on specificity for addresses. "Hey BMW, navigate to " will very rarely produce a result. Very poor or non-existent location knowledge, eg. I'd give it 60% accuracy at best (I'm native Australian accent). The only thing it had going for it was (a) native to iDrive (b) showed HUD turn by turn directions. Curious as to why you guys like BMW Maps so much. ![]()
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