Via points?

 

Just removed my Nuvi 885t for an in dash Kenwood with Garmin GPS. DNX9980HD.
My question is:
What is the easiest way to map out a route for visiting six different stores while in Toronto next week. I want to map a route that will take me to nearest first and furthest last.
I thank you in advance for your assistance.

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Being ALL I can be for HIM! Jesus. Kenwood DNX9980HD Garmin 885t

Wow no help on this one???

PastorMC wrote:

Just removed my Nuvi 885t for an in dash Kenwood with Garmin GPS. DNX9980HD.
My question is:
What is the easiest way to map out a route for visiting six different stores while in Toronto next week. I want to map a route that will take me to nearest first and furthest last.
I thank you in advance for your assistance.

I was hoping to get some feedback on this question.

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Being ALL I can be for HIM! Jesus. Kenwood DNX9980HD Garmin 885t

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You may have a very small audience for your question, Pastor. Hence, the lack of replies.

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nüvi 3790T | Those who make peaceful revolution impossible, will make violent revolution inevitable ~ JFK

Hmmmm

I don't believe it's possible, at least not on a Garmin. "Nearest first and furthest last" sounds like something useful, I just don't see how it can be done.

Larry

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It's possible on a Garmin, but a Kenwood in-dash (DVD) unit? We have a few here that own a Kenwood. Hopefully, they'll see this and reply.

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nüvi 3790T | Those who make peaceful revolution impossible, will make violent revolution inevitable ~ JFK

it's relative

PastorMC wrote:

Just removed my Nuvi 885t for an in dash Kenwood with Garmin GPS. DNX9980HD.
My question is:
What is the easiest way to map out a route for visiting six different stores while in Toronto next week. I want to map a route that will take me to nearest first and furthest last.
I thank you in advance for your assistance.

Furthest and nearest will depend on your starting point, but something like Streets and Trips will have the ability to load all the planned stops and optimize a route to hit all. You just have to be careful of what you pick as the beginning and end of the route. My suggestion is to use the place where you are staying as both start and stop otherwise the system will optimize just the points between the two chosen.

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Huh?!

Box Car wrote:

My suggestion is to use the place where you are staying as both start and stop otherwise the system will optimize just the points between the two chosen.

WTH? Do you realize what you just said? Whoa, dude...

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nüvi 3790T | Those who make peaceful revolution impossible, will make violent revolution inevitable ~ JFK

Custom Routes or Trip Planner?

Does the Garmin GPS that is built into your Kenwood receiver have a selection under "Tools" or "Where to" called "Custom Routes" (round icon with three flags) or a "Trip Planner" selection? Custom Routes will enable you to create a route with multiple via points and to add via points and manually re-order them.

It is my understanding that "Trip Planner" (found under "Apps") replaces "Custom Routes" on the newer models and includes similar functionality.

There are some questions

There are some questions that only owners can tell you/us.

Will the Kenwood accept routes comoing from Streets and trips or mapsource?
Can it accept external poi's.

You probably have to put each one in separately. Most built in units are not very user friendly.

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Nuvi 2460LMT.

you haven't used S&T obviously

Juggernaut wrote:
Box Car wrote:

My suggestion is to use the place where you are staying as both start and stop otherwise the system will optimize just the points between the two chosen.

WTH? Do you realize what you just said? Whoa, dude...

I do this fairly regularly with S&T. It can calculate the most efficient route to all stops between the starting and ending points entered. It's really great for planning day trips when you want to start and end at the same place but hit several different stops along the loop.

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I do this also

Box Car wrote:
Juggernaut wrote:
Box Car wrote:

My suggestion is to use the place where you are staying as both start and stop otherwise the system will optimize just the points between the two chosen.

WTH? Do you realize what you just said? Whoa, dude...

I do this fairly regularly with S&T. It can calculate the most efficient route to all stops between the starting and ending points entered. It's really great for planning day trips when you want to start and end at the same place but hit several different stops along the loop.

In Mapsource make a waypoint for your starting point, make waypoints to where you want to go. Start the route tool, put your home as start and end then add the way points in any order inbetween. Calculate it and see what it has done on it's own. Then if needed move the waypoints up or down as needed to make a circle. This works for me.

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Mary, Nuvi 2450, Garmin Viago, Honda Navigation, Nuvi 750 (gave to son)

Thank You All

I thank you all for your suggestions;
I sat up this morning until about 3am collecting addresses from my iPad and then checking the map to decide the proximity of each desired stop.
I then entered them into the unit earlier today; also have a hard copy with each stop listed and numbered.
The long way, but it worked.
I forgot about streets and trips;
I used this in the past; Will have to check to see if it will coordinate stops by nearest first.
Thank you again....
Now let us pray that the snow will not be a problem.

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Being ALL I can be for HIM! Jesus. Kenwood DNX9980HD Garmin 885t

With my 3760

With my 3760 I notice that in my recently found file the closest is always at the top of the list

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Today is a gift, that's why they call it the present...

Recently Found

ShenanigansNZ wrote:

With my 3760 I notice that in my recently found file the closest is always at the top of the list

On my 295 & 1490, the most recent search is on top of recently found list

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1490LMT 1450LMT 295w

Recently found

spokybob wrote:
ShenanigansNZ wrote:

With my 3760 I notice that in my recently found file the closest is always at the top of the list

On my 295 & 1490, the most recent search is on top of recently found list

My 765 experience matches spolybob's.

@ShenaniganaNZ, would you please do some Where Tos to somewhere across town and then try Recently Found again to see if they are not listed in the more recently looked for first? Thanks.

I'm wrong again, bugger

jgermann wrote:
spokybob wrote:
ShenanigansNZ wrote:

With my 3760 I notice that in my recently found file the closest is always at the top of the list

On my 295 & 1490, the most recent search is on top of recently found list

My 765 experience matches spolybob's.

@ShenaniganaNZ, would you please do some Where Tos to somewhere across town and then try Recently Found again to see if they are not listed in the more recently looked for first? Thanks.

Sorry you're right, I'm wrong again, bugger, it only tells how far they are away. I use recently found a lot when I'm using the trip planer with the extras file because the extras file wont show in the trip planer, do you have a better way of encluding extras into a trip?

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Today is a gift, that's why they call it the present...

ipad?

PastorMC wrote:

I thank you all for your suggestions;
I sat up this morning until about 3am collecting addresses from my iPad and then checking the map to decide the proximity of each desired stop.
I then entered them into the unit earlier today; also have a hard copy with each stop listed and numbered.
...

Thought iPad can do everything, so we do not need a dedicated GPS device any more...

God bless Garmin and Garmin users.