Thread: Road of Russia Navicom (1868/1734/1280/4941) up to v.5.25

Originally Posted by neadrenalin

Better fill in the form mapsupport.navicom.ru with your notes.

You are the BY citizen. You think that BY is a great country. I live in small region, but only routes for skating and skiing in this is more extent then all major roads in you country. Do you think I can fill in the form for thousands kilometers with wrong cartography. Sorry, but I am do not want make your work and pay you for expensive devices!

If users of this forum have a free time I try below to describe what is the Road of Russia Navicom. Those who cry then see a starving children in Africa in our century, please do not read my article
All in below I only wrote by my experiences in traveling by this map and meeting with other users. The most content is related with my region (North-west of Russia) but in a certain extent it valid for all Russia.

The base of map is cartographic material in scale 1 cm : 2 km. In one's time the state Russian cartographic office had sold this cartographic material to a certain firm that named Ingit. The firm made the program which stored data in simply text format likes XML. That is without coding and no encryption. Thus the skilled men made a free map for Garmin which alive all living things in this day for example.
State of map was the same as state of cartographic branch in Russia. There are the very old data and so many error. Today we have 30% undisguised of lies on average. Plus take into account scale of base map - 1 cm : 2 km. On this scale a mistake in some dozens of meter is not mistake and Garmin at every turn try recalculate a lost routes.
Well! It is inheritance and all in new hands. So exclude small roads. Any sensible man after first kilometers will understand what on this roads only one rules - at one's own risk and responsibility. But we have a some of roads with hard covering and very heavy traffic. Yes! We have a three roads in relatively (state for 1-2 years ago) actual state. But on renewed section we have on the right and on the left only vacuum. Navicom forgot to draw a close-fitting roads and erase a old invalid parts of main roads.
Beautiful! We are reach a big town due to one hundred kilometers of unnecessary mileage and with help from inhabitants. The same picture! May be searching by address help us? Alas! I may find address even on foreign maps but not Navicom. Earlier I thought my town is Capital of region and one of biggest in Russia. In actual fact a few street and half of its without any traffic during many years!

Adrenalin have the insolence to say that I be guilty after that. For him opinion we must pay for device and map to Navicom, and draw nearly all of map oneself? What is why I recollect BY and UA specialists. They do not know anything about country on map. This people make money but do not qualitative product.
At old time Navicom had real and genuine russian specialists opening for cooperation, but small wage kill their. So far we have reap of their actions only.
Today to Navicom map add only marshland from map.google.com and JCV for Moscow. But price for Garmin increase in Russia at last time. It is business in Russian...

By any way welcome to Russia. Adrenalin and other BY and UA specialists dwell in Moscow. Other population is very friendly in most and help you to find right way!


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