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Road Trip Application Question

 
Sat, 04/18/2009 - 10:46am

If I plan a route from say Phoenix, AZ to Indio, CA; Road Trip gives me a route as if I were flying in an airplane. It doesn't follow any roads? Do I have to drag the route to the roads, time consuming!
Or is a preference in the Road Trip application that I missed?
Thanks,
Treeman

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Sat, 04/18/2009 - 10:04pm

You have it in offroad mode

I had this on my Garmin and set it back. Can't find the setting now.

Sat, 04/18/2009 - 10:13pm

Off Road?

I'll check the menus in Road Trip and see if I can find it.
Thanks for the reply.
Treeman

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"If hard work were such a wonderful thing, surely the rich would have kept it all to themselves." - Lane Kirkland
Sat, 04/18/2009 - 10:53pm

Edit/Preferences/Routing

If if follows the same general theme as MapSource, select Preferences from the Edit menu and then select the Routing Tab. "Use Direct Routes" will ignore roads, lakes, you name it and just draw straight lines from point to point. "Use Auto Routing" will follow the roads.

The same option in the Nuvi is to set for Off-Road mode.

Sun, 04/19/2009 - 10:34am

Road Trip for Mac

Yup,on my version I went to Road Trip>Preferences> Routing Tab> and it was set to "no preference," I set it to follow highways. Too bad this application isn't like Google Maps, where you can set a start point, end point, then drag the route around to change it.
Maybe I'm missing something?
Thanks,
Treeman

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"If hard work were such a wonderful thing, surely the rich would have kept it all to themselves." - Lane Kirkland
Sun, 04/19/2009 - 2:20pm

Route tool is the tool for you :)

What you describe sounds like the Rout Tool. There is an icon with three green squares with lines connecting them, the last icon on the right. Give that a try and see if that helps.

I'm new to this as well so I apprecaited learning how to make sure my route keeps me squarely planted on the road smile

Mon, 04/20/2009 - 7:20am

Isn't there a Selection Tool arrow?

Treeman wrote:

Yup,on my version I went to Road Trip>Preferences> Routing Tab> and it was set to "no preference," I set it to follow highways. Too bad this application isn't like Google Maps, where you can set a start point, end point, then drag the route around to change it.
Maybe I'm missing something?
Thanks,
Treeman

One would hope that it would reasonably follow the methodology of MapSource. In MapSource, after it calculates a route, you use the Arrow "Selection Tool" to drag the route segments to other roads. It's not that obvious, you have to click twice on the route segment that you want to "grab".