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Sun, 02/19/2023 - 8:15pm

I have the Nuvi 2797LM , I keep this update, I went on a road trip this weekend and I was getting wrong directions and some places. I was going to Delaware on North I-95 when the gps was giving me directions to downtown Washington DC, which was out of my way, there was some traffic on the road but not that much. And it did the same in delaware trying to take me about 5 miles south in de then back up again in a big circle.
I have Nav set on faster time, Detour unchecked. This GPS cannot be trusted, anybody have any ideas?

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Sun, 02/19/2023 - 8:35pm

navigating to a location?

Were you navigating to a specific location or on a route (trip) with several via points?

Sun, 02/19/2023 - 9:03pm

Garmin has always had a bad

Garmin has always had a bad habit of going through DC instead of The Beltway. What avoidances do you have elected. Can you tell us what the final destination was, or a point near it?

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Frank DriveSmart55 37.322760, -79.511267
Sun, 02/19/2023 - 9:11pm

Wrong way

I was trying to go to Newark De, by the University Of Delaware. which is North of 95 and garmin wanted me to exit 95 and go south to pick up 40E then to rt 896 to go North to my destination

Sun, 02/19/2023 - 9:14pm

yes

Just a straight shot, fastest way I could go.
University Of delaware

Sun, 02/19/2023 - 9:30pm

Using Basecamp, Garmin took

Using Basecamp, Garmin took me around 495 Inner Loop, (west side) then get off 95 at 279 then north to U of DE. I used Dumfries as the start point. But I don't think that makes any difference.

Most of the time when stewy routs ar shown there is some sort of out of the ordinary avoidance is chosen. My GPS is on my school bus so I can't check it.

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Frank DriveSmart55 37.322760, -79.511267
Sun, 02/19/2023 - 11:16pm

I've found

I've found that how you set your speeds for the different road types is a big factor in the routing used. Set the speed for city streets to something like 15 MPH with the next level up around 40. Interstates can be set for 60 and a lot of the routing issues like going thru DC rather than the Beltway will go away.

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Mon, 02/20/2023 - 8:00am

How done?

Box Car wrote:

I've found that how you set your speeds for the different road types is a big factor in the routing used. Set the speed for city streets to something like 15 MPH with the next level up around 40. Interstates can be set for 60 and a lot of the routing issues like going thru DC rather than the Beltway will go away.

Which devices allow users to set a road's speed and what's the procedure?

Mon, 02/20/2023 - 8:48am

I Think

CraigW wrote:
Box Car wrote:

I've found that how you set your speeds for the different road types is a big factor in the routing used. Set the speed for city streets to something like 15 MPH with the next level up around 40. Interstates can be set for 60 and a lot of the routing issues like going thru DC rather than the Beltway will go away.

Which devices allow users to set a road's speed and what's the procedure?

Boxcar may be referring to Basecamp, not a particular GPS.

You can set individual road speed preferences in Basecamp as follows:

Edit> Options> Activity Profile> Routing> Adjust Your Average Speeds.