Destinations and Via Points

What model number?

destination is your last stop. If you go to your last stop first the machine only knows you want to go to the via point as well as the primary destination. Via means "by way of" or "through" thus I think you may be using your GPS incorrectly.

Your via point is an intermediate location that you go to first not last as you seem to be saying you did; thus the GPS will always try to get you to the end point of your journey until you cancel the trip.

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Your primary destination always remains your final destination. If you enter Via points, your unit will guide you to your via points first, then continue to your final destination. This is handy if you want to force your unit to use a certain route, rather then one your GPS selects to get to your final destination.

Here is a better explanation:

Primary point entered as Kroger

Via point entered as Wal-Mart

I first go to Wal-Mart.

Then I try to go to Kroger (my final destination), but the device whats to take me back to my via point (Wal-Mart) even though I have been to my via point and am now traveling to my primary (final) point, Kroger.

The device is a 1450LMT.

Did you drive 'through' the checked flag? Until you do, it won't know you hit that via point.

Do you have to go directly through the flag or is there an allowance of a few feet?

There is a few feet, but I've found I have to be careful of where the POI is set especially in 4 lane entrances/ exits.

I've noticed if I don't go to to my via flag and keep going for a little while it will stop trying to take me back.

Same here

Your unit has an estimate of accuracy and allows a certain radius around the POI location. I don't know what that is; Hopefully someone else can answer that. The place your unit thinks it is located has to overlap the location of the poi on it's internal map, plus or minus that radius I mention above, before it will accept you have made it to the location. If they don't it will eternally try to route you back to that location because it doesn't know you'll already made it there.

I use Mapsource along with Google Earth to refine the locations of all of my Favorites so I have the best chance of actually driving through my POI as I arrive at my destination. Automatic completion of navigation is less critical when you are ending your trip, but as you see, when a location is used as a via point, then it becomes a necessity.

The only way out of the situation you describe that I have found is to stop navigation and then reselect my final destination and have the unit start navigating again.

On my 660 I can't creat routes like some so I put in a start and end then just add a stop in between. If I don' stop or get right to the location as soon as I pass it then it recalcuates and goes ont to the end. I use a way point to change the route it I don't like how it is taking me.

I never thought to do that but I am going to try it out.

Did you ever hear "Arriving at destination"? I am going to make the assumption that if you did, you were in the radius within which the GPS recognized the waypoint. If you did not, your GPS is still trying to do what you asked it to do.

To help us understand, how were the points entered? If you did it yourself and put the coordinates in the middle of the Walmart, you would not likely be able to get the "Ariving at Destination" unless your drove past the front door.

Just a thought.

Last weekend I set our cottage as the destination and added a viapoint (waypoint) 1/2 mile left (North) off our intended route. When we purposely did not turn off the main route to the waypoint the GPS did not even respond with "recalculating", the map simply no longer displayed the purple road to the left. There must be some sort of cut-off distance for "passing" a waypoint because when I set another waypoint to the other side of a 4 lane highway (tried this test) the 1350 wanted us to exit and do a cloverleaf to get to the waypoint.

In my Nuvi 2450 when I have a route and a via point, just below the via point in the detailed info there is a green button to say go. If you miss the spot or decide to not go there you just punch the go sign and then it takes you to the next spot.

I sure do like my 2450!!!