Changing Routings
Wed, 04/08/2009 - 12:32am
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15 years
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Is there a way to change the route that is programed in my Nuvi? I usually travel on a less traveled road than the GPS thinks I should be on so I continually get recalculating and wanting me to turn off of the road that I want to be on. I would like the unit to know where I want to be.
I'd like to know the answer
I'd like to know the answer to this too. I have a feeling the answer will be to set a via point somewhere along the route you really want to drive.
Would be sweet if you could grab and drag the route on the touchscreen the way you can route in Google Maps.
Kennedy808
You called it
I have a feeling the answer will be to set a via point somewhere along the route you really want to drive.
If you have checked your setting for Navigation/Route Preference and Navigation/Avoidances, you are stuck with setting via point(s).
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.
dingve wrote: Is there a
Is there a way to change the route that is programed in my Nuvi? I usually travel on a less traveled road than the GPS thinks I should be on so I continually get recalculating and wanting me to turn off of the road that I want to be on. I would like the unit to know where I want to be.
This is probably not what you want, but off course you can make a route in MapSource with the route tool, save it and load to GPS.
Nüvi 765T, Nüvi 1390T, Nüvi 2559 and 2695 LMT, GPS12, GPS18 (used in nRoute and Oziexplorer on laptop), GPSmap76CSx, SonyEricsson X1 (For OziExplorer CE maps)
I know there may be other
I know there may be other reasons to have it the routing mode so you can see things like the ETA, but if you already know where you want to go, why does the unit evenneed to be in navigate mode. Just leave it in the map view mode and there won't be anything to recalculate.
Mapquest is an easier option than Mapsource
at least for me...you can enter start and end points in Mapquest, and it will more than likely lay out the same route your nuvi would have.
but then you can drag the route to another road, and with a little patience, probably get the route you want.
BUT, you will need to right click on the little dot that is created at the new intersections, and make those waypoints, and then click the send button to send it to your nuvi.
if you ignore that step, you can still send the route to your nuvi, you can still import it as a custom route from MyData, but the nuvi will simply ignore the route you created and recalculate it's own.
the only downside to this, and for me it is a big one, is that your nuvi will annouce the arrival at each of these waypoints...it is a big deal for me, because I use the mp3 player most of the time, and it means additional times that Jill needs to interrupt the playback.
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I can think of one other reason
... if you already know where you want to go, why does the unit evenneed to be in navigate mode.
Traffic reporting.
Changing Routings
From home when I go east to whatever destination rather than taking the most direct route to the freeway I jog a mile to another street that has fewer traffic lights and less traffic. Even after turning on the street that takes me directly to the freeway enterance the gps wants me to go back to original route. I just want it to say OK, continue on what is now the most direct route.