First negative route

On my 2689 there is a setting to avoid ferries which I was unaware of until driving from Charleston SC to Williamsburg VA. Sure enough the GPS took me to a ferry. It probably would have been the shortest time except I arrived as the ferry was leaving the dock. Naptime!!!!

Did you have an opportunity to visit the Andy Griffith museum or enjoy a bologna sandwich while there? Or even have your picture taken with Andy and Opie?

Thanks for the memory. I grew up In Lorain OH and one of my favorites was a fried bologna sandwich.

Sure, My Garmins have given me "negative" routes on occasion. Not always the fastest or shortest, but they nearly always get me there.

Since the calculated time to destination is usually spot on, it allows me to allot enough time for the trip. Most of the time, I never know if there was a better route.

I think that's a fascinating concept - I had to read this thread just to find out what a "negative route" is. I assume a "positive route" is one that gets you to the destination, and the positive number is the number of minutes (or hours) that it takes. So, what if that's a negative number? I think that's when you don't reach the destination, and in fact end up far away from both your destination and your home.

For example, if a positive route has a value of 20, then you reach your destination in 20 minutes. Now, a better route might only have a value of 15 (you arrive more quickly), so smaller numbers must be better! If the value was 0, then you must already BE at your destination, so the route doesn't take any time to complete. By definition, that is a "null route".

But what about a negative number? That could only mean you are getting farther from your destination after you pass the 0 value. Like, you wanted to go to Kansas City but ended up in Pittsburgh? If we go with that way of looking at things, higher POSITIVE values would be worse routes.... like, it should only take 20 minutes, but your route took 40!

Now, there's also an old programming tradition, where if a function returns a value of -1 (instead of the expected positive number), that indicates an error. This is mostly just in legacy system software, from what I see. If we went with that tradition, then a negative value would mean that the route was a complete failure and you ended completely in the wrong place....

if (route > 0) {result = completed};
else if (route < 0) {result = you_are_lost};
else if (route == 0) {result = you_are_already_there};

OK, sorry... I am spending way too much time writing computer code these days. Have a nice Sunday!

I was using Garmin maps for navigation before and the avoid highways option mistakenly got toggled on. It told me getting to upstate SC from Columbia, SC was going to take like 8 hours an had me pass over I26 multiple times before I decided to stop and figure out the issue.

I'm another transplant here, from Parma! White socks and pink flamingos!

Mentioned this to neighbor with Garmin, and he mentioned he had strange routing in that general area too!
I mentioned it bring a ‘negative route’, and he knew exactly what I was referring to!

We both feel it’s due to the back roads area there.
And preponderance of gravel roads.

I turn on highway avoidance a lot especially when I am trying to avoid i95 traffic.