country lanes and garmin760

[niva441]

I've not thought of trying that before, I assumed it just opened up road restrictions (e.g. Cambridge City Centre). I didn't expect it to change routing references, I'll be find out how it performs next week

[K4TRV]

bigbadbikercats said:

carlovers said:

please dont come in and say you should sort it out before you go,i do a shed load of miles and what would be the point of a satnav.

You should sort it out before you go.

Basically all self-contained nav units will suck to a greater or lesser extent when left to do all the routing for you (for a start they're never going to be any better than the data and Mr Garmin seems to have better things to do with his time than measure the width of every single minor road). In my experience it really is far better to use Garmin mapsource on the PC to plan your routes (much better/easier/nicer to do on a sensibly sized screen) in advance, review them using a bit of common sense (and the "show in Google Earth" button for really dubious looking bits), and then download to the device for later use. Either way best treated as a navigational aid rather than a replacement for your brain.

Personally I quite like narrow country roads, don't mind opening (and closing) the odd gate, don't necessarily freak out when the tarmac goes away and I've found some quite interesting places/roads/sights by setting my trusty old Streetpilot 2610 to "shortest distance" routing or using routes Mapsource has generated with the road preference slider cranked all the way across to "Prefer minor roads" - I can see it could be kind of annoying if you just want to get somewhere though

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JG

Interestingly, not all Garmin Nuvi series will let you transfer a route from Mapsource to the unit - It is not available on the 250W for example - Much to my annoyance after purchase and with Mapsource loaded and used for a number of years with a GPS V and then a Quest.

Think you cannot use mapsource for planning routes for the Nuvi Series 2xx & 3xx, the rest allow downloading - it's in the small print...............!!!!!

Trev McM