Have to add that the disk works great!Fast shipping too.

 

Thank You all for providing the positive feedback on the 2015-2016 version DVD for USA & CAN . So far all overseas shipments have arrived well and no reports on not functioning of the DVD !
Happy to help more LR3, RR & RRS 2004-2009 models with a navigation update !

 

Thank you so much dijkvr, disc arrived. Works great

 

I discovered what I must regard as "proof" that the new disc contains updated navigation calculation software, or firmware?, well whatever it is called.

Now when I punch in as a destination St Paul Alberta, (a small town in northeastern Alberta), the path the navigator now chooses is my preferred small secondary two lane paved roads routing rather than the "truck route" that is longer and congested.

Before the update, while the navigator would always find the town, (and the secondary roads showed on the disc), the calculated route ignored them. I could not teach it to use them either. This time, no teaching was involved, the calculator chose the shorter less busy route by itself.

The disc is definitely an upgrade and I guess would be so even for those who live in mature areas where new roads are rarely constructed.

 

I just returned from an overnight visit to the only real City in Alberta, Calgary.

I think I can say with certainly that Calgary is 100% outhouse free and even has a ring road that now displays on the Nav disc upgrade.

My reason for the drive south was not so much to visit Calgary but to go out to the Springbank airstrip, (CYBW), just west of Calgary.

YBW > Home

From my hotel within Calgary, I did a search on the database for the Springbank Airport, found it, and input it as a Waypoint, with my home village of Edmonton as a Destination.

The Nav then directed me 28 km west from my Calgary hotel to Springbank and then upon departure, directed me north back to Edmonton 350 km via the newly opened Stony Trail North.

For me, this is a real improvement as given the driving rain, it was nice to know the exits etc were so many kilometers ahead.

Previously, for the most part, the database just showed either Royal Engineers ordinance maps or Polar Bears. I have since determined that that Serpents are only portrayed on Royal Navy charts and we are a bit inland for that.

I guess what I am saying is the update for me was worth the time and effort to install and get used to.

For those in the States, I imagine out west, there would be significant updates. In Eastern US, I would think all the roads that will ever be constructed have been, but for the West, there are still miles of trails yet to be paved.

Actually for the Easterners, I think McDonalds locations are in the database as well; hence just that info may be worth the effort of the update as well.

Perhaps others would let me know the value of McDonalds in the database.

I know for me when driving in France, the McDonalds locations were of great value as that meant hamburgers, Coca Cola, ketchup, and washrooms.

Also I must be getting old as it does not take much to slow me down.

I stopped at a Shell for petrol. I was presented with five different fuel choices, two diesel and three petrol plus a black coloured nozzle and a yellow handled nozzle.

I guess the yellow nozzle and the 91 were the correct combination as I arrived back successfully. In most of the EU, black is gazole, and green is unleaded petrol. Here GM and Ford tend now to use green for their diesel fuel caps so nothing is certain. The yellow matched the Shell station yellow anyway.

The trip back was in heavy driving rain and my variable speed wipers worked perfectly.

 

It's funny someone posted a video of some character in a bro-dozer pulling a Honda away from the diesel pumps so that he could fill up. They re-posted it on a Land Rover facebook page and all of the U.K. guys kept saying that's not even diesel, he's using the green nozzles.

 

Fuel is one area where colour coding does not seem to work very well.

On John Deere garden tractors, the fuel cap colour for diesel seems for the most part to be red and for gasoline, black.

You cannot even go by price anymore - here diesel tends to be more expensive than regular 87 unleaded and with 91, who knows.

In theory, the spout sizes are different and it is supposed to be hard to get a larger diameter diesel nozzle into the reduced neck of the petrol, but again ....

That is why I spent a fair bit of time trying to figure out which button and which nozzle - more time than how to make the pay at the pump procedure work. I must be getting too old as that is normally a chore as well. The sun is often washing out the flat screen display instructions etc.

I come from a time where there was a tall glass round thing at the top of the pump. It was truly a pump as you had to hand pump it full to the number of gallons you wanted. You then inserted the hose in the gas tank and turned the tap on and the glass emptied. It was a pretty reliable system and the ultimate in energy conservation. It uses your energy and gravity.

By comparison with those new type Pumps, our Nav system with the disc update is simple.

 

Got mine fairly quickly here on the West Coast and so far so good! Thanks

 

I have it for about 2 month. We took a trip on hwy 101 about 2000 miles and nav perform well too. Did not have any problems with old or new roads.

 

With the 2015 update DVD, I discovered another format change on the Nav display that was not evident in previous versions.

Here on the prairies, we are getting more and more of what I call French Traffic Circles - they are those smaller diameter circular road intersections with three to seven exit/entry's that are so common in France, and becoming less uncommon here in the backwoods as well.

While in the EU, five to seven exits are routine, locally it tends to be three or four exit/entry's.

For example, the first attached jpg displays the number 2 in the centre of the traffic circle symbol. That means one is to depart the circle at the second exit from where one enters. In my case, that was straight ahead so to speak, and that is what the green arrow below the circle symbol denotes.

The second jpg display that then replaces the first jpg shows the traffic circle as a bump in the road and that is what one sees as one approaches the circle.

In a normal four exit/entry circle, if one was going 3/4 of the way around, then the number 3 would display.