Shortest detour POI
Sun, 01/18/2009 - 10:52pm
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16 years
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On a recent trip, I wanted to go to a chain restaurant and my nuvi had plenty of locations store. I had trouble finding the one with the shortest detour from my current route. The arrow on the right just seemed confusing. At the time I did not really care whether I had to drive 50 miles down the road, but I did not want to drive 10 miles out of my way. Is there a way to pick a POI by shortest detour?
Arrow Plus Distance
Rev,
The screen you were looking at 'should' have had both the arrow (which is an 'as the crow flies' indicator) and distance to the restaurant. You use both of those items to choose the target closest to you. Obviously you don't want something 'behind' you or even 50 miles ff to the left or right if there's one that's roughly the same distance ahead or a few degrees left or right.
If you're in an area where roads tend to be pretty straight then the navigation is simpler, if you're in a place where the roads are twisty you just have to use some common sense. Basically anything in front of you trumps anything to the rear unless to the rear is close and, in the case of food, you're really hungry.
Nuvi 760 & 660, Streetpilot, GPS III, GPS 10X
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There is a very good tool to search along the route -- it's reached by Near/Along-the-current-route while looking for built-in or custom POIs. The problem is that as I just discovered via another thread, they don't work the same way, at least on my unit and, near as I could tell, any unit. When searching for a built-in, it seems to limit the search to a distance of 1 mile or less from the route. When you do it for custom POIs, it returns the 52 locations closest to your current location -- just as if you had searched without using Near/Along-the-current-route. If your location is available only via the custom POIs, or if the built-ins return no hits using the Near/Along-the-current-route, I guess you are stuck with the technique mentioned above -- if the arrow is pointing in the direction you are headed and the distance isn't too far, it can't be very far off the route.
You should look at http://www.poi-factory.com/node/19898
Nuvi 660 -- and not upgrading it or maps until Garmin fixes long-standing bugs/problems, and get maps to where they are much more current, AND corrected on a more timely basis when advised of mistakes.
this is exactly what I was
this is exactly what I was looking forward, just could not find it. I thought "Near" selects a region. Never occurred to me that the route itself can be the region.
Wokring with the arrows and distances is distracting when you are driving. I want the GPS do the math for me.
Thanks a bunch.