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Discussion in 'Prime Audio, Electronics, and Infotainment' started by cjp767, Oct 26, 2017.

  1. cjp767

    cjp767 Junior Member

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    Here is a picture of the display with the map near my house. I see the traffic is all green-- that's great. But look at the color of Rte 16. It's a divided highway with 2 lanes each way. Question: Why is some of the highway orange and some of it yellow? I've looked in the owner's manual and I haven't found any guidance on road color. I hope I missed something in the manual and someone can point it out. Thanks!
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    Any road construction?
     
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    there would be construction icons if there were
     
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    It's a road classification thing. I don't know why it changes. Toyota uses "Here Maps" for their data now (previously it was directly from Navteq with Denso's own road classification and map overlay). It looks to be an error.

    The good thing is that means we can check on wego.here.com as it's basically the online version of the Prime's (and Gen 4's) maps.

    Both Google and Here maps have road classification change on WA-16 near Gorst (makes sense) but only Here maps has that weird segment that you highlighted. Google keeps the divided highway classification.
     
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    Ahhh yes. Route 16 was a 2 lane road before it was a limited access highway and several businesses still have access to the westbound highway directly. That is likely why that section has a different classification. Thank you for your insight!
     
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    Makes sense. Now you've helped future WA owners :)
     
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    +1.

    I checked my Garmin Basecamp with the 1 week old "City Navigator North America NT 2018.3" map and while the color change is subtle, it also reflects the road type change. It does not give classification details.

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    Excellent! I assume the web version will stay updated so users can compare it to their vehicle to see what's missing.
     
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    I used to live in Gig Harbor and spent many an hour in Tides Tavern... (y)
     
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    I'm also curious what those little diamonds are. I see them on most of the major routes but not on secondary roads. I've even seen them on roads that I have traveled on for the first time. There is no indication in the owner's manual what these represent.

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    They remind me of direction of travel indicators, but they are related to traffic, so I'm not sure.
     
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    I would doubt they are related to Traffic because I see them at 2 a.m. on roads I have never been on

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    Getting out of the bar around that time?:p
     
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    No, just traveling to the other end of the coutry with less congestion at that time, but thanks for your concerned sarchasm.

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    no problemoh:cool:
     
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    They're arrow heads. (I think I'm looking at the same thing you are)

    Traffic data is broken into segments. The arrow heads are is just one end of a segment of traffic data.
     
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    It's not related to whether you "see" actual traffic out the windshield, but rather that electronic traffic data is being displayed on the NAV screen. Time of day does not matter. The arrows are located on the outside bar which is the traffic indicator portion (green part), so they are somehow related to traffic.
     
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