Detour button on Nuvi 205
Tue, 01/20/2009 - 2:26pm
 15 years
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I was on a trip this past weekend and notice when I was enroute and click the menu at bottom of map, at the bottom of the menu screen I had a stop and detour button. Was wondering what the detour is used for.
I'm assuming it's to be used if a road is closed but how does it work exactly. Because how would it know how far it needed to re-route you for the detour.
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It takes you off the current street/route and will try to put you back on the original street as soon as it can route you back to it.
It could only take you around the block or it could take you to the next exit.
It would be the same as if you made an unscheduled turn or took and exit unexpectedly. Except that it won't tell you to make a U-Turn.
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Detour
I know some other brands, and some of the higher-end Garmins I believe, allow you to set an amount of road that you want to detour around.
useless "feature"
The nuvi "detour" feature is pretty worthless. You might just to have to bypass a block, but you might be taking a detour because you know a bridge is out 5 miles ahead. In the second case the GPS would do it's best to keep routing you back to the road that you need to avoid. Better to just ignore GPS routing when you have to detour, or, if you can, add a via point that will help you work around the detour. Why they included this "feature", and didn't even bother to document it, I don't know. This has already been discussed in another thread.
Garmin Manual says..............
I was on a trip this past weekend and notice when I was enroute and click the menu at bottom of map, at the bottom of the menu screen I had a stop and detour button. Was wondering what the detour is used for.
I'm assuming it's to be used if a road is closed but how does it work exactly. Because how would it know how far it needed to re-route you for the detour.
Taking A Detour
1. With route active, touch menu
2. Touch Detour
The nuvi attemps to get you back on your original route as quickly as possible. If the route you are currently taking is the only reasonable option, the nuvi might not calculate a detour.
I have used detour to get around traffic jams or accidents, in unfamiliar areas.
It will take you off your current route, then try to get you back on a route, to your final destination, as quickly as possible. It's not perfect, but has been helpfull to me, on occasion.