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Originally Posted by Mark Kenepp
Are you saying that this Nav software can not read the contacts database and you need to import the data into the program to make use of it!?!
I have experience with only two Nav programs (iGuidance and CoPilot) and I just thought that that feature would be standard!
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Well, no, the software can read the contacts database, but yes, you need to import the data into the program to make use of it. At first I also thought it was a bit outrageous, but then I realized that all OCN6 is doing differently from other nav software is that by doing the import, it's pre-identifying contacts with addresses that it can parse. With other nav software, you don't find out if the program can't parse a contact's address until you try to use it.
I will say, however, that OCN6's parsing routine appears to be less flexible regarding different ways of formatting addresses and the use of abbreviations than other nav software that I've used. Which lead to my frustration in trying to do the import. Had the parsing routine been able to work effectively with non-abbreviated terms, punctuation marks, etc., the import would really have not been an issue.