New Garmin routing questions

 

I am thinking about getting a new Garmin because someone told me there are some Garmin GPSs that can learn how I like to go to a destination and use that route instead of their default route.

What features (nuroute) of the new Garmin GPSs allow this?

Are their other new options for controlling the route to a destination?

Thanks

Go to

Go to https://buy.garmin.com/shop/shop.do?cID=134&ra=true and put check mark in Learn Traffic Trends located on left of screen near bottom.Also other selections to narrow you search to what you are looking for.

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Check 'Predicts Your Routes"

charlesd45 wrote:

Go to https://buy.garmin.com/shop/shop.do?cID=134&ra=true and put check mark in Learn Traffic Trends located on left of screen near bottom.Also other selections to narrow you search to what you are looking for.

Follow the above link and right below "Learn Traffic Trends", check "Predicts Your Routes".

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Ok but After the garmin

Ok but smile After the garmin learns all this stuff, does it use what it learned when I choose a destination?

Maybe I just need to see it in action to know if it will help me adjust the routes.

There's two settings

One is:
- use traffic trends
- use / learn user trends

Don't need trends

I only use a gps to get me where I haven't been before. Why would I need it to remember the route that I normally travel? I know the way.

I only use a gps to get me

Why use a GPS to learn routes? Time estimates and traffic, made on repeated drives.

I drive the same home way from work every day, which is slightly different than the typical route a GPS would find. The traffic is variable. There's probably a decent-sized jam once every few weeks.

When I get in my car at the end of the day, the 3760 figures out that I'm going home, and automatically puts up a banner "Home: 42 minutes, no traffic" which shows the time and traffic on my preferred route. No buttons to press, it just does it.

Occasionally, it might say "75 minutes, traffic on 495N", in which case I have the option to take a different route. Yeah, I know the alternate routes in my head, but I like being warned.

I also have text alerts set up on my.traffic.com, but the NavTeq traffic is a lot better in my area.

That is an interesting

That is an interesting feature but I do agree why would I want it to learn the way I normally take.

I only take out the GPS if I am really in a uber bad jam, and want some other roads away from the stopped vehicles ahead of me.

That is an interesting

That is an interesting feature but I do agree why would I want it to learn the way I normally take.

I only take out the GPS if I am really in a uber bad jam, and want some other roads away from the stopped vehicles ahead of me.

Changing routes..........

pilothaz wrote:

That is an interesting feature but I do agree why would I want it to learn the way I normally take.

I only take out the GPS if I am really in a uber bad jam, and want some other roads away from the stopped vehicles ahead of me.

I use my GPS for work trips. I have offices I have to visit from time to time that are hours away from home. Being geographically challenged I LOVE having the thing route me to these offices. Sometimes there is a better way than that suggested by the nüvi. I'd like the thing to learn that I prefer a different route. Lately - after the latest map update - the thing is choosing routes I don't like as well. It's no longer choosing the same route it used to take and I don't like that at all. I'd love to have it be able to learn the way I want to go and then use that route every time. Sadly, my 760 can't do that.

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Don't scoff

I wonder how many innovations in history people didn't know why they were made until it was put to use. Personal computers weren't thought to be useful when first introduced.

If It's Your Preferred Route, Why Use a GPS?

goboymd wrote:

I am thinking about getting a new Garmin because someone told me there are some Garmin GPSs that can learn how I like to go to a destination and use that route instead of their default route.

What features (nuroute) of the new Garmin GPSs allow this?

Are their other new options for controlling the route to a destination?

Thanks

If this is your preferred route, that you take regularly enough for the GPS to learn, why use the GPS.

It seems to me, to be a solution that doesn't really have a problem.

Am I missing something?

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confused

I love technology, but I am confused about why I would ever want to have this feature?

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Traffic?

davidkbrown wrote:

If this is your preferred route, that you take regularly enough for the GPS to learn, why use the GPS.

It seems to me, to be a solution that doesn't really have a problem.

Am I missing something?

Accidents, road closures, good old traffic congestion... smile

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Nüvi 2595LMT

That would

That would be the TrafficTrends part but there is also myTrends which is the part that learns your preferred route over time and then uses it in place of what it would suggest normally.

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Thank for the description of

Thank for the description of what I'd see.

Thanks to everyone who responded.

I guess I'd really like to be able to adjust the route like a google map sad

Route adjustment

goboymd wrote:

I guess I'd really like to be able to adjust the route like a google map sad

That would be great.

feature

You can avoid going on some bad roads or rough part of town.

Someone I know has a new

Someone I know has a new garmin with these features and there is some value in knowing the travel times of various routes I take regularly, so I'll probably jump in and get a new one with these features.

This Garmin feature could

This Garmin feature could get annoying sometimes. If you have the unit on and are driving without a planned route the trends feature occupies the top green bar and does not disappear until you enter a route.

Always nice to see someone

Always nice to see someone come up with a "new" use for a feature. Too bad we don't get traffic updates here!

Every person has their own needs

So while you put down this feature, it might be very important to someone else. This is like saying why do I need a computer, I can do all that stuff without one. That may or may not be so, but other people have other needs and wants.

jjen wrote:

I only use a gps to get me where I haven't been before. Why would I need it to remember the route that I normally travel? I know the way.

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maybe for others

jjen wrote:

I only use a gps to get me where I haven't been before. Why would I need it to remember the route that I normally travel? I know the way.

I have no idea how many GPSr owners ever lend the units to family and friends, this may be a good use for this feature if the travel from point A to point B takes you near a "bad part of town" and you are aware of it but they are not.

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It might not be for everyone...

I agree that it might not be for everyone, but it sure sounds like a good idea in areas where traffic can be extreme and variable. Forewarned (assuming the data is correct!) is forearmed.

Great

goboymd wrote:

I am thinking about getting a new Garmin because someone told me there are some Garmin GPSs that can learn how I like to go to a destination and use that route instead of their default route.

What features (nuroute) of the new Garmin GPSs allow this?

Are their other new options for controlling the route to a destination?
Thanks

I would love to have something like that but I don't think the 765 is capable.