How to program the correct route on a Nuvi 360?
Fri, 07/18/2008 - 8:50am
 16 years
|
My Nuvi 360 always takes me the really long way to get on a certain freeway by my house. The problem is that it gets confusing as it makes me get on another freeway before getting on the freeway I want.
Is there a way to program it so my shorter, better route comes up instead when accessing this freeway?
Set an intermediate destination
You can't override the route the 360 chooses but you can choose a point on the route you want it to take and save it as a favorite. Then after you set your unit to take you home, go to favorites and choose the point you saved and press go. The nuvi will ask you if it is a new destination or if you want to insert it as a via point. Choose the later and it will re-route you the way you want. Maybe you will have to try a couple of times to find a good via point to use.
Strange routing
The problem is that it gets confusing as it makes me get on another freeway before getting on the freeway I want.
As has been said here MANY times before, the GPS is just a tool. It doens't MAKE you do anything; really it doesn't.
For trips close to home, set your destination....and then if you know a better way, by all means, go that way. The GPS will re-route and the two of you should be back together in short order.
The other option, of course, if you are travelling in an area you are familiar with......is to leave it turned OFF.
The units are not perfect and do some strange routing at times. You either need to accept this and not get upset about it OR have a general knowledge of the route so you will recognize stupid route segments and ignore them.
Magellan Maestro 4250// MIO C310X
I just mute it when driving
I just mute it when driving familiar routes, so I don't have to hear it recalculate over and over. Sometimes routes that I think are familiar, I'm wrong - it's good to see its suggestions. (Sometimes I'm right, though. I'll ignore it, and when it recalculates it shaves off a few minutes, despite being set for "fastest time".)
This way I get the benefit of having the arrival time on screen. If I do something stupid and get lost, then don't have to fish the unit out, wait for it to lock, and so on.
The only tricky spot is, for a long trip, sometimes I'll want to take a different route. I know I want to take that route (say, it's less traffic) but also need the reminder so I can't mute it. You obviously do this by adding out a waypoint, but I'll make a separate post on that.