Telling Garmin satnav to go via places
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I'm driving from London to Cologne and Garmin 1440 says go via Brussels and Liege. The Brussels ring road is a nightmare so I figure go via Lille in France, Mons and Chareleroi and on to Liege. How do I tell the bloody Garmin 1440 that I want to go that way without actually going into the city centres? Does anyone know?
Cheers,
BoxsterChris.
Cheers,
BoxsterChris.
On my old Nuvi, set your ultimate destination and 'GO', then back to 'where to', select a destination, hit 'GO' and it gives the options of 'intermediate point' or 'new destination'. Pick your intermediates carefully, junctions on motorways for example, and it should do what you need.
Sell the piece of s
t and buy another make. I have just had two weeks of hell driving around France with a Navi 1390T via all sorts of odd places. I tried all modes,shortest,quickest,motorway,non-motorway,you name it, anyway, we ended starting up the old sat nav i.e. my wife and a map and that worked fine.
t and buy another make. I have just had two weeks of hell driving around France with a Navi 1390T via all sorts of odd places. I tried all modes,shortest,quickest,motorway,non-motorway,you name it, anyway, we ended starting up the old sat nav i.e. my wife and a map and that worked fine. Chris944 said:
I'm driving from London to Cologne and Garmin 1440 says go via Brussels and Liege. The Brussels ring road is a nightmare so I figure go via Lille in France, Mons and Chareleroi and on to Liege. How do I tell the bloody Garmin 1440 that I want to go that way without actually going into the city centres? Does anyone know?
Cheers,
BoxsterChris.
I'd guess you need to set a route to lille Centre and when approaching Lille, set the destination back to your original Cologne destination??Cheers,
BoxsterChris.
Garmin are now realising people would like to "set-their-own-route" as we used to be able to do on Mapsource with GPS Vs & Quests. Some of the latest 3xxx I understand are now able to download routes from Mapsource.
HTH
Trev
With an older nüvi, such as the nüvi660, the easiest way is to store somewhere such as junction 15 on the E42E near Charleroi (at about N50°28'10" E004°32'5") as user waypoint (e.g. 'E42EJ15').
Choose your Cologne address as the destination and click GO, then click 'Where to?' again, find 'E42EJ15' in your list of favourites and click GO. You will then see a page asking whether you want to 'Set as New Destination' or 'Insert in Route as Via Point'. Choose the latter option.
Your route will then be via Lille, Mons, Charleroi, Liege rather than via the god-awful Brussels ring road. About 12 miles longer though.
Choose your Cologne address as the destination and click GO, then click 'Where to?' again, find 'E42EJ15' in your list of favourites and click GO. You will then see a page asking whether you want to 'Set as New Destination' or 'Insert in Route as Via Point'. Choose the latter option.
Your route will then be via Lille, Mons, Charleroi, Liege rather than via the god-awful Brussels ring road. About 12 miles longer though.
Hope it works for you! I've just tried it in my nüvi660 from Dunkerque ferry port to an hotel in Köln and it worked fine.
I usually find somewhere which will force the route to go where I want it to by using Microsoft Autoroute, then trying it out in the nüvi660. I sometimes need several waypoints, but have worked out a simple technique for 'leap-frogging' waypoints when necessary.
For some reason, the latest Garmin City Navigator NT Europe map set seems to use some rather odd routings at times...
I usually find somewhere which will force the route to go where I want it to by using Microsoft Autoroute, then trying it out in the nüvi660. I sometimes need several waypoints, but have worked out a simple technique for 'leap-frogging' waypoints when necessary.
For some reason, the latest Garmin City Navigator NT Europe map set seems to use some rather odd routings at times...
Well I find that somewhat surprising.
According to the User Manual http://static.garmincdn.com/pumac/nuvi_1100_1200_1... , you should certainly be able to create waypoints in the manner I described. The nüvi1440 should be able to save 1000 waypoints/favorites/locations and you should also be able to save 10 'routes' - not something I can do with the nüvi660.
Either touch the desired location on the map or enter it as a lat/long co-ordinate, then save it as a favourite.
According to the User Manual http://static.garmincdn.com/pumac/nuvi_1100_1200_1... , you should certainly be able to create waypoints in the manner I described. The nüvi1440 should be able to save 1000 waypoints/favorites/locations and you should also be able to save 10 'routes' - not something I can do with the nüvi660.
Either touch the desired location on the map or enter it as a lat/long co-ordinate, then save it as a favourite.
Sounds like you had a good trip - glad to hear that the SatNav worked OK!
Whenever I go to Europe by car I use the excellent Norfolk Line to Dunkerque rather than the Chunnel or Calais - cheap fares and very comfy!
I think that the first owner of my SLK32 AMG must have ticked the 'brutal' option in the suspension specification list though - so smooth roads are a mercy after the UK's rutted cart tracks.
Whenever I go to Europe by car I use the excellent Norfolk Line to Dunkerque rather than the Chunnel or Calais - cheap fares and very comfy!
I think that the first owner of my SLK32 AMG must have ticked the 'brutal' option in the suspension specification list though - so smooth roads are a mercy after the UK's rutted cart tracks.
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