iDrive map updates?
Posted: Fri Aug 19, 2022 1:46 pm
This is just curiosity, but how often do you update your map files?
When I bought my F25 in mid-'18 the maps were still the 2012.2 ones that I presume it came with, as it was built in October '12. Within a few weeks I had updated them to 2018.2.
A couple of times recently I've been on roads that don't exist, according to 2018.2, so I've just updated again to 2022. It seems that map updates for my car are now only issued once a year.
These days I don't often go to places I don't know so I actually don't use the nav. that often, but we are going on holiday to Cornwall next month and it's somewhere I haven't been for 15 years or more. If we start going places again, like we used to a few years ago (Wor Lass doesn't like to be too far from home - on a regular basis - at the moment, in case something happens to one or other of her parents), I might try to get in the habit of updating the nav. every other year, or so.
When I bought my F25 in mid-'18 the maps were still the 2012.2 ones that I presume it came with, as it was built in October '12. Within a few weeks I had updated them to 2018.2.
A couple of times recently I've been on roads that don't exist, according to 2018.2, so I've just updated again to 2022. It seems that map updates for my car are now only issued once a year.
These days I don't often go to places I don't know so I actually don't use the nav. that often, but we are going on holiday to Cornwall next month and it's somewhere I haven't been for 15 years or more. If we start going places again, like we used to a few years ago (Wor Lass doesn't like to be too far from home - on a regular basis - at the moment, in case something happens to one or other of her parents), I might try to get in the habit of updating the nav. every other year, or so.
