Silly routes

 

My Rand Mcnally routes some un usual routes. On a route from Ontario to Florence KY it would have me go though downtown Teledo rather than staying on I75. I can use trip maker to change my route but that leaves waypoints that are awkward in themselves. They prevent seeing the entire route for instance and the leg times do not reflect the time between destinations. I am not sure how to get around this. Suggestions???

GPS units don't

replace common (which is not so common) sense. A lot ot the routing is based on distance and options you select in your unit during setup can affect the route chosen. Because these are electronic devices drawing on a database of possible routes with the distance and posted speed limit for each segment but they can't account for traffic, stop lights or signs. This means a road posted at 35 MPH may be faster than a 65 MPH road that is 10 miles futher distance, but is, as you have observed, faster because of traffic and stops. The best solution is to either review the route on a paper map or on a computer and insert "shaping points" to force the GPS to force the unit to follow your chosen route.

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RM 7720 Silly routes

I have experienced the same issues with RM. Recently I have up dated the maps getting ready for a trip. Now when I come to the road to my home I get exceeding weight limits? It has me going 5 or 6 mi. out of my way just to back track thru the city to get to my home. I went back to the update screen and tried to reload no help. Only thing I can say is, I am glad I know the way HOME!!

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Will an update help?

dlan603 wrote:

[RM7720 silly routes] I have experienced the same issues with RM. Recently I have up dated the maps getting ready for a trip. Now when I come to the road to my home I get exceeding weight limits? It has me going 5 or 6 mi. out of my way just to back track thru the city to get to my home. I went back to the update screen and tried to reload no help. Only thing I can say is, I am glad I know the way HOME!!

If I understood your post, the reason for the re-route was "exceeding weight limits". I know nothing of the RM devices, but I assume there is some "avoidance" that would cause this. Is that true? And - if so, how would a reload help?

traffic light algorithms

One would think that the algorithms used by rm would account for traffic lights like in said example. It is sad that it does not. Really no excuse to not use at least the estimated traffic flow by the manufacturers.

I've seen a few nutty things

I've seen a few nutty things over the years too, like taking me off a highway only to run on a parallel road for a short while and get back on the same highway.

Another, by far the craziest, hard to explain without a photo (see link), is having me bare right onto a cut-off for a right turn only to have me go straight across the road for the cut-off to get back on that road.

http://i184.photobucket.com/albums/x101/soberbyker/pa2a/gpan...

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No explaining it

Fortunately (for me) paying attention and trusting myself over Jack, while traveling along a divided street with 2 lanes each way plus a left turn lane at the intersection, my route was to take me left and as I approached the left turn lane Jack got excited and wanted me to turn right, then make a u-turn to accomplish the left turn. I did my thing and let him sit there "recalculating" until he realized I was back on his course and he was happy. I tried to recreate this a few days later on the same road and he behaved properly so I'm at a loss to understand why this happened. The only thing that even makes sense to me was that the nuvi thought I was in the right lane and too close to the intersection to access the left turn, but then I remembered that well before I got to the intersection, it wanted me to turn right. Go figure...

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its really quite simple

TXRVer wrote:

Fortunately (for me) paying attention and trusting myself over Jack, while traveling along a divided street with 2 lanes each way plus a left turn lane at the intersection, my route was to take me left and as I approached the left turn lane Jack got excited and wanted me to turn right, then make a u-turn to accomplish the left turn. I did my thing and let him sit there "recalculating" until he realized I was back on his course and he was happy. I tried to recreate this a few days later on the same road and he behaved properly so I'm at a loss to understand why this happened. The only thing that even makes sense to me was that the nuvi thought I was in the right lane and too close to the intersection to access the left turn, but then I remembered that well before I got to the intersection, it wanted me to turn right. Go figure...

Jack is blonde and was having a blonde moment! shock

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Was that "Bare Right" or "Bear Right"?

soberbyker wrote:

Another, by far the craziest, hard to explain without a photo (see link), is having me bare right

Was that "Bare Right" or "Bear Right"?

That could be a real distraction for the other drivers. LOL

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GPSgeek wrote:
soberbyker wrote:

Another, by far the craziest, hard to explain without a photo (see link), is having me bare right

Was that "Bare Right" or "Bear Right"?

That could be a real distraction for the other drivers. LOL

yea yea, spell check didn't pick up on the improper use of a correctly spelled word razz

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Yes...

A bare right would have distracted me too.

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True

camerabob wrote:

A bare right would have distracted me too.

"bare right and then bare left" would be more than distracting.

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