Custom routes via POI

...asianfire, what route did it give you?

ML

You could probably do it that way, but what I'm curious about is ...

1)what avoidances you have set and

2)is it set to shortest or fastest?

I don't have any avoidances besides dirty roads. It took me the best way, but not the way I want to go. It took me up 15 through PA and I want to stick to the Interstates, just cause I like them better. The way that i want to go isnt the fastest nor is it the shortest, but just the way I want to go.

And ignore the voice telling you to go another way until it realizes you know where you're going. That's what I do.

It took me up 95
around DC
I-270
US-11
US-22
US-15
and then back on Interstates

That is what I usually do as well, but I am not familiar at all with that area and wanted some guidance going from one interstate to the another without any paperwork.

Wow, that's a long, long way around if you only want to go on Interstates.

Select Buffalo as your destination and then select Pittsburgh, PA as an enroute destination. As you approach Pittsburgh, select Buffalo as a new destination so as to stay off city roads into downtown Pittsburgh.

Based upon my presets, inserting Pittsburg adds five miles and 8 minutes (via downtown Pittsburgh) to the route.

...to get a broader picture for yourself. It chose a route that was mostly (if not all) interstates when I typed in the locations of VA and Buffalo, NY.

asianfire, make sure you see the 'Falls' when you're there - and don't go over 'em in a barrel either!

Good luck!

ML

After a few months with NUVI, I now have all the paper maps back in glove compartment. I hate the feeling of getting somewhere and back without any ideas where I have been. Too much technology often make us forget the basics.

If I have time to plan a trip, I use Mapsource to investigate my trip. I look for a route that works for me - which is usually not the fastest, nor the shortest.

It may include a side visit to a POI, or maybe a stop at a restaurant slightly out of the way, or avoid a known traffic problem area.

So, I play with Mapsource, adding waypoints when needed to direct the route where I want. When satisfied, I download that route and use it. With my GPS, I can still make on-the-fly route changes and get a recalculated route.

If I don't have time to plan a trip - I let the GPS guide me how ever it wants.

Absolutely ...this is the best way to set up long, cross country routes. I use GPS Visualizer to set up my Custom POI's everywhere there is a bypass around a city or where I know best. Can't always rely on GPS routing. This really sets up waypoints for you and keeps you in control of where you're going.

Yeah, I have been there before, I took my fam a couple of summers ago up there to see the falls when I had a business trip up there. Now I go tuhree every year to do Year End procedures for the client. I think I am going to fly after all.