eugeneflim

Sorry for obvious or stupid question (I searched), but it appears that my 2004 S-class Navigation DVD is only capable of selecting range of houses, and not the individual house number. I have the latest 2007 maps, and only recently got the car, so didn't use the Navigation too heavily. My Nuvi is capable of individual house numbers for the same destinations, both are using similar maps, what am I missing?
Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

Jayhawk

I think the range makes for a much smaller database. All my CDs give only a range, and apparently the DVDs do too. It works fine for me. If I can't find an individual house # w/in the small range, I probably shouldn't be driving.

Diesel Benz

I very much agree with this comment. The numbers are also for one or the other side of the road, one just has to identify a limited range from one side of the road (at least for us it is this way). On the other hand there would still be room on a DL DVD to add more info, or perhaps MB wants to keep it single layer DVD to let the drive read them more reliably (don't know if these are DL, the W221 DVD is a DL DVD but it is only read once to the HD).

lkchris

For all we know, those systems purporting to offer actual numbers may direct you to the "vicinity" in any event. That is the software may match the number you input to a stored range value.

Diesel Benz

That is a good point to remember too, I've seen it mentioned before, just would have to try to remember for the future...

am_beagle

My 08 ML 350 Navi shows exactly the number of a house, a building on any stored street. It also announces "your destination is on the left/or right". But not precise as the handheld navis do "One hundred feet to your destination on the left".....

acr2001

05 C class (W203) allows you to pick the exact number and tells you how many feet to the destination on the left / right. Seems to me like Mercedes never makes up their damn mind about these things and it's always changing.

Diesel Benz

It could be the map database provider issue too, is your W203 using Navteq discs?

Diesel Benz

I don't think you have arrived if the destination is at one hundred feet to the left? Is this a scenario where it is not possible to reach the address by car any closer than 100 feet?

acr2001

Yes it is. Pretty sure MB uses Navteq for all their vehicles.

jd986s

C class, ML/R/GL use different Nav Systems as on E/S class. COMAND unit (head unit) is made by Alpine (you can see Alpine on the back of Nav DVD jacket also. The E/S/CL COMAND is very limited in terms of functionality. It does not announce left/right on destination. The map DVD does provide even/odd number in the database but the COMAND doesn't take advantage. Portable unit like Garmin has less storage than DVD (2GB vs. 4.7GB on DVD) and has 6M POIs and also announce destination left/right. Just a bad design (I believe it's Harman who designed US version of COMAND for E/S/CL).

eugeneflim

Thank you, I kind of suspected this, but was hoping to hear something like getting the latest COMAND upgrade/DVD would help...
Oh, well, maybe getting a standalone unit would be an alternative, I was hoping to avoid the hassle plus inconvenience of connecting another antenna, since the windshield really prevents standalone units from being installed in usual locations.