For those of you with the Navi option, what map view do you use the most? Do you see an advantage of using one over the other? I have mostly been using Bird View, but sometimes switch to Plan view when driving in my city. Just curious as what other members have been using and why.

 

I use the plan view Shane, it is much more useful for me and easier to view, similar to a map. The birds eye just looks prettier, but definitely not as practical for me.
You said you switch to the plan view when driving in your city, and I would imagine the reason is that it is easier to follow as well.

 

Birdview for me. I think Gee35X hit the advantages -Bird looks "cooler", wherease Plan may be more practical.

 

+1 I use the bird option as well. The only thing that sucks about the navi is it sometimes waits till you are right upon a turn and then it will say in 2 meters turn right.

 

I prefer Bird View. I find that with plan view I don't have enough information on the "coming ahead" route...

Bird View is more practical and should have been the standard option on all cars.

The only times I switch to Plan view is when driving long distances outside my region (out of state) where I would want to see where I am in relation to the continental U.S. layout - something that Bird View doesn't do well.

 

Birdview, no particular reason I just think it looks better.

 

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Question - Not related to the topic.

I opted without the nav during my purchase and now regretting it. I wish I had waited couple of more weeks and got the nav option.

Now, from the look of the new dash, there's no option of adding aftermarket nav player. (Beside the hand held or the mount type – TomTom, Magellan….etc.)

Is there not a way to upgrade to nav?

 

I would say there is definitely no way to upgrade to the Navi since you dealer would have to install the internal hard drive, new buttons around Infiniti controller, steering wheel buttons....etc. I would say you are SOL.

 

Split view, with plan and bird view. Best of both worlds.

I would prefer to have the plan on the right, or be able to hit the map button to swap between which map is controlled by the zoom/direction buttons.

 

I'm a bird view kind of man.

 

bird view looks cooler, but not that easy to view like the plan view, we use these views in our class (architecture) and plan view is the most common and easy to view...

 

yah i prefer the bird view too... looks cooler.. and that's one of the reasons i bought the G

 

I use plane view, easier to actually use the navigation with it

 

plan view.
north up.

i'm a map person. and i find it alot easier if I always have the same point of reference for north no matter what direction i'm driving.

 

Bird view.

It has non-linear scale... the stuff close to you is of large scale (zoomed in) and further away it is smaller and smaller scale (zoomed out). Thus, you can see street detail nearby and still see that the road you are on eventually hits the interstate.

For bird view, the angle setting is somewhat important.. find one that balances close-up detail vs. knowing what's coming in the distance.

Basically in bird view the content areas are trapezoids and in plan view they are squares.

Plan view will need a lot of zooming in and out to have an idea of what is going on. So I leave it on bird view... and when I'm using the navi I set a destination or a route... this way when approaching key areas (turns, waypoints) the navi automatically splits the screen to show a detail planview of the intersection/merge area/waypoint crossing.