XM NavTraffic Suddenly Working - Promo?

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  1. Tideland Prius

    Tideland Prius Moderator of the North
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    I haven't seen free NavTraffic before (aside from my initial free trial when the car was new). It's always been just music for me.

    Cool. Another week and a half of it. Too bad I came back from my road trip the weekend before the promo started. Good for those who are driving out this long weekend.
     
    #21 Tideland Prius, May 18, 2018
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    I still have NAV traffic two days after the promotion, so maybe it is free now.

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    #22 AzWxGuy, May 31, 2018
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    Ditto.

    It's hit and miss though.

    It got the construction on one of the bridges with the left lane closed (listed as "lane closed").
    It picked up the slow traffic on the local highway on a weekend

    It completely missed the PM rush hour traffic on a different bridge (bumper-to-bumper.. it had green lines)

    and for some reason, one of the main street is "closed" (Do not enter icon on the map) but it appears to be open when I drove by.
     
    #23 Tideland Prius, May 31, 2018
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    Sirius is via polar orbit sats. XM is on two geo-stationary sats., named rock and roll (one east and one west for the US). Sirius isn't affected by northern location but XM is. Though most of Canada is fine on XM as most of us live within 500km of the 49th. Edmonton is north of that, but it still works fine.

    I can't speak on how well it works in Pearl S because I've -never- used it, even during the "free intro". I've tried the nav. a few times and it's, well, pretty useless. And now so far out of date it's a joke.
     
    #24 David Beale, Jun 1, 2018
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  5. Tideland Prius

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    Note that the map disc matters in displaying traffic data. I updated my maps from 8.1 to 11.1 and I got more traffic coverage in Edmonton. (and of course got the Henday instead of driving through grass and apparently a lake)
     
    #25 Tideland Prius, Jun 1, 2018
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    Promo is done. Traffic is no longer displayed on my nav.
     
    #26 Tideland Prius, Jun 10, 2018
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