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No Possible Route
Jaywalker
32 Points
I borrowed a friend's TomTom Via 1535 TM to see if I liked the newer (than my old XL340) models. I did, but at a start from a location I had driven it to, the unit informed me there was "no possible route" to where I wanted to go. I'm wondering if the fact I was in a private parking lot off the street was the issue here, or possibly being parked under a tree. Any ideas?
FWIW, the unit had never been updated, so the map was "38 months old."
FWIW, the unit had never been updated, so the map was "38 months old."
Comments
Now this was probably 7 years ago, but I guess TomTom software still does the same thing. With Garmin, routes work fine and the GPS just prompts with "drive to road".
With Garmin, it will happily route you to the nearest point on a paved road, and just give you the "drive to road" prompt while the route is still active. It seems to interfere with time calculations on my more recent Nuvis however. It would add several minutes to the estimate for me to go the 1000 feet from the road to my house. :)
I've pretty much decided I need two units, one TT and one Garmin. Garmin for its better maps out west and the ability to plot a location not on a road, and a TT for the quick action of an unknown city, where exit choices come fast and where Garmin has recently sent me on many a merry chase, off and then back on freeways.