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Absolutely disappointed of Trip Planner feature (or I am doing it wrong?)
Last weekend, we made a trip to Mount Washington with an idea if we like the area, we will make the same trip in Fall. Following some guidebooks and looking into the scenic routes, I made a plan in Google Maps, exported to kmz, imported to Basecamp and then sent it to the GPS. Everything worked fine as expected.
(If anybody wants to know how I did it, instructions are here, https://sites.google.com/site/transferkmzfilestoyourgarmin/)
But when the time came to use the trip planning feature, it rerouted route to the quickest route and completely ignored the planned trip. I went through the trip planning feature to start the trip. There was not much to fiddle around on the GPS, tbh to make a mistake.
Has anyone used this feature and how to make sure that it follows the trip planned?
The GPS unit is Drivesmart 50LMT
Thanks in advance.
P.S - I could not trial run the feature before departure as it would start calculating the route from my current location to the point where the trip started.
(If anybody wants to know how I did it, instructions are here, https://sites.google.com/site/transferkmzfilestoyourgarmin/)
But when the time came to use the trip planning feature, it rerouted route to the quickest route and completely ignored the planned trip. I went through the trip planning feature to start the trip. There was not much to fiddle around on the GPS, tbh to make a mistake.
Has anyone used this feature and how to make sure that it follows the trip planned?
The GPS unit is Drivesmart 50LMT
Thanks in advance.
P.S - I could not trial run the feature before departure as it would start calculating the route from my current location to the point where the trip started.
Comments
I suggest having sent the route from Google to BaseCamp you then create a new route in BaseCamp that matches the Google route and send that to your device, it should then work correctly.
I plan to reach out to Garmin to ask for didactic instructions on making the route and executing that in the trip planner. If I get instructions that I can replicate on the trip, I will post them here.
Again, I suggest you import the route into BaseCamp then create a completely new route using the BaseCamp route tool. Adjust that route as necessary to match your imported one and then send your newly created route (not the one you imported) to your device, it will then work correctly.
The only time I run into problems is when I have changed my preferences (shortest route etc) or avoidances (dirt roads etc) for a specific purpose and the next time I may get a different result because the route may have an out of date section of unpaved road in the map.
You need to remember the Garmin is storing the "trip plan" based on the waypoints not the route that varies based on various parameters and avoidances.
I set a GOTO to the destination to achieve the shortest route then add waypoints along the way for POIs I would like to visit. I am surprised at some of the routes that the GPS proposes and the addition of a few shaping points are often added to make sense of the route. Sometimes I find roads that are marked as not paved require setting the unpaved avoidance off, I then have them updated for future use.
I play a few "what ifs" to see how far they take me off the rumb line, then set out my expected daily drive distances with extra waypoints.