I have a 2014 Edge with MyTouch Nav. I just did the latest update.
The Navigation System is horrible:
- Search by POI usually won't find the business or location you are searching for...it is nearly useless unless you are looking for a big name like Walmart or a Gas Station.
- Entering the address by typing is incredibly painful and slow. There is no way to change the State.
- Changing the State is an exercise in frustration
- The actual navigation traffic rarely shows actual slow or stopped traffic. Instead you repeatedly get "Incident boxes" that tell you something ahead, like "vehicle broken down on roadway" It is nearly impossible to figure out the relevance. Google Maps works GREAT. I use Google Maps for traffic, and can't trust Ford Navigation.
- The Navigation doesn't give you context as to where it is taking you. If you miss a turn, it doesn't say "Missed turn, send you to make a U-turn"....you just blindly go where it sends you, which can be miles out of the way...just to make a Uturn.
- There is no way to select alternate routes, as you can in Google Maps;
- THere is no way to send addresses from Google Maps to the Navigation System.
- The last update that was done deleted all but six of my Favorite Destinations. Ironically, it kept all the Recent Destinations.
- There is no way to back up the addresses or phone numbers in the system
- Speed Limit sign is too small to read.
Phone/Text integration works pretty good.
Stereo/XM works really great
Climate works pretty good.
Here is what I want: An App that takes Google Maps and puts it on MyTouch to replace the Navigation System.
OR, at least a way to sync the Google Maps destinations so that when I search, I am using Google Maps search, and finding a good address, and then have that address set as the Ford Navigation Destination.
I am ready to go out and write the app myself.
Frustrated in Navigation land.
Cody