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CivPilot · 30th August 2006, 15:46

Ok... French points of interest update.

Just spoken to honda CS (nice bloke on the phone too) and they confirmed with the Technical department that currently there is no available fix as this is not an error in the code or the disk, it is down to licencing.

The bodies who hold the relevent licences for both English Pub's and fast food outlets (may be the same body, maybe different) currently have not agreed to let Honda use the licence in their software to display the POI's for these areas.

So in the short term there will be no correction for this issue and it will only ever be addressed (if the licence is approved) in the next disc update, maybe 1 or 2 years time.

Yup, you read that correctly. There is nothing wrong with our systems, they work fine, but there is just no information loaded for the UK in the areas we are looking at. And no amendment to the owners manual for us to find this information.

(FYI The general navigation data used by Honda for our system is supplied by Navtec)

I also asked about the officail Honda ipod MP3 solution hinted at on these boards and he know of nothing, but did admit that sometimes they wouldn't hear before dealers on option changes and such. so dont totally discount that rumour.

I asked about my dealer informing me of the Auto doorlocking notice on the alerts page (My dealer read me a note on their system that instructed them to DEACTIVATE auto doorlocking on any car found to have it active). The guy didnt even know about the feature being available to him but is going to look into it for me and try and get a deffinative answer on why a)Its no advertised in the UK & b)Why dealers are being told to turn it off.

Thoughly nice chap, very helpfull and told me he would check the board out (he drives a new civic himself) so Hello "A" and Welcome if your reading.

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CivPilot 您看了 Triangular Exhaust Join Date: 1st May 2006 Location: Surrey/Hants Posts: 446 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts iTrader: (0)	UPDATE FROM HONDA CS Ok... French points of interest update. Just spoken to honda CS (nice bloke on the phone too) and they confirmed with the Technical department that currently there is no available fix as this is not an error in the code or the disk, it is down to licencing. The bodies who hold the relevent licences for both English Pub's and fast food outlets (may be the same body, maybe different) currently have not agreed to let Honda use the licence in their software to display the POI's for these areas. So in the short term there will be no correction for this issue and it will only ever be addressed (if the licence is approved) in the next disc update, maybe 1 or 2 years time. Yup, you read that correctly. There is nothing wrong with our systems, they work fine, but there is just no information loaded for the UK in the areas we are looking at. And no amendment to the owners manual for us to find this information. (FYI The general navigation data used by Honda for our system is supplied by Navtec) I also asked about the officail Honda ipod MP3 solution hinted at on these boards and he know of nothing, but did admit that sometimes they wouldn't hear before dealers on option changes and such. so dont totally discount that rumour. I asked about my dealer informing me of the Auto doorlocking notice on the alerts page (My dealer read me a note on their system that instructed them to DEACTIVATE auto doorlocking on any car found to have it active). The guy didnt even know about the feature being available to him but is going to look into it for me and try and get a deffinative answer on why a)Its no advertised in the UK & b)Why dealers are being told to turn it off. Thoughly nice chap, very helpfull and told me he would check the board out (he drives a new civic himself) so Hello "A" and Welcome if your reading.