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Old 05-18-2009, 10:10 PM
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What are the yellow dots on the nav screen?

I have these little yellow dots on streets on my nav screen. I don't have any location things on (like atm's gas, etc) and there are lots of them all on side streets. Any idea what these small dots are?

I'm trying to upload a pic now.

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Old 05-18-2009, 10:11 PM
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it is the routes u travelled before. it is like ur history dots. the car knows where u've been. u can set it to off.. tracking or something like that
Old 05-18-2009, 10:14 PM
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But the dots are a bit random.....like its not an even breadcrumb trail......
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It's Pac man.
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Originally Posted by Retromoe
It's Pac man.
LAWLZ

I was wondering what those dots are too. I usually see it on highways, history makes some sense.
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Originally Posted by Retromoe
It's Pac man.
Old 05-19-2009, 01:47 AM
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Originally Posted by Mike S.
But the dots are a bit random.....like its not an even breadcrumb trail......
How do you mean random? Are they not in lines along roads that you have traveled in your car since you got it?

It's been dropping these "breadcrumbs" since you got the car or since you set it like that. They may look like a mess because they are everywhere you've been driving and overlap quite a bit maybe?
Old 05-19-2009, 09:05 AM
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But the breadcrumb trail would still be uniform over the traveled roads. Are these dots really little yellow stars? If so, then you (or the dealer during a demo) may have entered a Point Of Interest, such as a Starbucks, and I believe it shows the locations with those stars.
Old 05-19-2009, 10:36 AM
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They are not yellow stars, but yellow dots (just a circle, nothing fancy). They are DEFINITELY not points of interests, there would be like 8 on a small stretch of suburb road shown on my screen and there is nothing interesting about the mailbox.

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Old 05-19-2009, 10:44 AM
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I'm starting to think that your car is smarter than you.
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^ The biggest contribution to the thread yet, heh.

I suppose route history would be the best explanation for the yellow dots
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its your cars route/travel history, sometime is can be random if you travel one route more than another, or 2 routes intersect that you travel. happens to me all the time as i tend to take 2 diff routs to and frm work
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i dont understand.. they're 2 different people now.. TL62 is not the OP..
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