redsmartie
Registered user
I have done a bit of reading of previous posts and I know it has been covered in parts but without hijacking a post I thought you could indulge me with a conversation on the issue I'm having.
95% of the time I just stick in a destination on the fly (usually a short section i.e. Bala to Porthmadog for instance, or take me home). I ran into a problem when taking my planed routes to the Alps and had to recreate them on the NAV manually. Since then I'm done a bit more research and fully understand waypoint vs shaping points, etc. I'm happy to use Basecamp and also MyRoute-App (more recently). Once I've created the route it ends up on the NAV as a track. I select this and after selecting options it ends up in the Trip Planner.
It may be options and the way of transferring the files that I am getting it wrong but I'm experiencing the following scenarios.
I have 8 days of routes planned for the NC500 and beyond (I know its hard to get lost on a coast road) and I'd hate to have done all the work only for me to have to abort as I did in the Alps.
95% of the time I just stick in a destination on the fly (usually a short section i.e. Bala to Porthmadog for instance, or take me home). I ran into a problem when taking my planed routes to the Alps and had to recreate them on the NAV manually. Since then I'm done a bit more research and fully understand waypoint vs shaping points, etc. I'm happy to use Basecamp and also MyRoute-App (more recently). Once I've created the route it ends up on the NAV as a track. I select this and after selecting options it ends up in the Trip Planner.
It may be options and the way of transferring the files that I am getting it wrong but I'm experiencing the following scenarios.
- If I select the track and I see it calculate the route and stick it in Trip Planner. But regardless of whether I let it do this or tell it not to recalculate in the options I get no voice prompts for the shaping points other than the first waypoint I have set. I want to keep my eyes on the road and not follow a line on a map.
- Sometimes if I have preselected a track and sent it over to the planner the day before and I select the trip it then both refuses to give me voice prompts, but worse the route is just am 'as the crow flies' starlight line between waypoints and shaping points with only Proceed to X at the top of the screen.
- I have on occasion triggered the desired behaviour but I don't know how, in that I selected a track, it calculated, I selected it in planner, clicked go and it gave me voice instruction from waypoint to shaping point along the route (even though it did try and drag me back to one shaping point without an onscreen option to skip (but at least the voice was telling me I'd gone wrong).
I have 8 days of routes planned for the NC500 and beyond (I know its hard to get lost on a coast road) and I'd hate to have done all the work only for me to have to abort as I did in the Alps.