We see lots of posts shouting frustration with Garmin GPS devices, running routes created in My Route and other non-Garmin software. Most often the cause is nothing more than incomplete data being transferred between My Route and the Garmin device, compounded by user error.
Whilst a route might well look perfect in My Route, sending it directly from My Route to a Garmin device - with no check in between - can create problems. These problems only manifest themselves on the road, when correcting them is difficult.
Good advice would be:
A. Do not send a route directly from My Route into your Garmin device.
B. Send the route to BaseCamp first. Then check it properly, correcting any errors. Then send the route from BaseCamp to your Garmin device.
C. When the route is installed into your Garmin device, summon it up and check it again. Does the mileage match? Does the estimated journey time match? Does it look right? Is it straight lines? If it does not, it is better to realise now, rather than in a week’s time when you are standing frustrated at the roadside.
D. Learn how your very clever (but sometimes very dumb) Garmin device works. In short, crap in, results in crap out.
Doing this will save you the frustrations suffered by users, as tipified in this thread and others like it:
https://www.ukgser.com/forums/showt...-a-Nav-VI-running-a-route-created-in-My-Route
Richard
PS Advice C is good advice, no matter how or where a route was created. It doesn’t take long. Do it.
Whilst a route might well look perfect in My Route, sending it directly from My Route to a Garmin device - with no check in between - can create problems. These problems only manifest themselves on the road, when correcting them is difficult.
Good advice would be:
A. Do not send a route directly from My Route into your Garmin device.
B. Send the route to BaseCamp first. Then check it properly, correcting any errors. Then send the route from BaseCamp to your Garmin device.
C. When the route is installed into your Garmin device, summon it up and check it again. Does the mileage match? Does the estimated journey time match? Does it look right? Is it straight lines? If it does not, it is better to realise now, rather than in a week’s time when you are standing frustrated at the roadside.
D. Learn how your very clever (but sometimes very dumb) Garmin device works. In short, crap in, results in crap out.
Doing this will save you the frustrations suffered by users, as tipified in this thread and others like it:
https://www.ukgser.com/forums/showt...-a-Nav-VI-running-a-route-created-in-My-Route
Richard
PS Advice C is good advice, no matter how or where a route was created. It doesn’t take long. Do it.