Stephen Cannon
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That sounds about right. There was a lot of pushback around 2013-2014 era with the SD Cards. At that time I believe it was A4 Cards and that was it. The pushback was this and yes I was one of the people feeding the fire to get movement. I had sent a letter to NAVTEQ (MAP SD card vendor) and asked when newer updates were going to be available. Simplified version of their reply....and yes I can't make this up.
"We appreciate the input but our infrastructure is not set up for more frequent updates" Focus on the IS NOT SET UP. I replied....You are a MAP company THAT IS YOUR INFRASTRUCTURE AND Purpose in life. That is what you do, I am not asking you to provide sports scores or movie listings.
I submitted the reply to Ford and basically this is what your vendors think about providing assistance and service to their customers. A little over month later all of a sudden the A5 card came out, this was around April-May 2014 time frame. After that every year about the same time pretty much like clockwork the new card comes out. I am sure it wasn't just me that pushed the updates through but he it sounds good right?
If you are this far along in the update cycle I would wait until the A10 card comes out.
"We appreciate the input but our infrastructure is not set up for more frequent updates" Focus on the IS NOT SET UP. I replied....You are a MAP company THAT IS YOUR INFRASTRUCTURE AND Purpose in life. That is what you do, I am not asking you to provide sports scores or movie listings.
I submitted the reply to Ford and basically this is what your vendors think about providing assistance and service to their customers. A little over month later all of a sudden the A5 card came out, this was around April-May 2014 time frame. After that every year about the same time pretty much like clockwork the new card comes out. I am sure it wasn't just me that pushed the updates through but he it sounds good right?
If you are this far along in the update cycle I would wait until the A10 card comes out.