Making a Route Using Garmin Adventurous Routing

[Wapping]

zūmo XT Owner's Manual - Taking a Route Using Garmin Adventurous Routing

www8.garmin.com

In post #13 of this thread:

XT ISSUES WITH ROUTES

In Germany at minute and if not for my mates old 660 we would have a spoiled holiday. Issues arise for 2 reasons i can establish. Firstly, set off this morning and route preview was fine 190 miles 5hrs riding, got to the first junction and had an announcement "there are road closures on route...

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Victor c, suggests setting the slider (point 5 above) to level two, to give the most satisfactory result, closest to routing offered up by Google.

 

[PitaNaanRoti]

Fucking useless function. Not adventurous at all.
the BMW app has far better routing when you select maximum twisty including many green/unclassified lanes.

 

[Wapping]

Fucking useless function. Not adventurous at all.
the BMW app has far better routing when you select maximum twisty including many green/unclassified lanes.

Great, use that if it works for you. Plenty of others find the BMW Connected app less than useful and pretty unstable.

PS It might be more interesting and useful if you gave some examples, showing how BMW’s ‘Adventure’ (with a capital A) algorithms and base mapping gIves better results.

There is a whole sub-section devoted to the BMW application and maybe more to come, when the new BMW Connected gizmo comes into the shops.

BMW Motorrad Connected App

Start a thread there and see where it takes bods.

 

[PitaNaanRoti]

Great, use that if it works for you. Plenty of others find the BMW Connected app less than useful and pretty unstable.

PS It might be more interesting and useful if you gave some examples, showing how BMW’s ‘Adventure’ (with a capital A) algorithms and base mapping gIves better results.

There is a whole sub-section devoted to the BMW application and maybe more to come, when the new BMW Connected gizmo comes into the shops.

BMW Motorrad Connected App

Start a thread there and see where it takes bods.

Was a comment stating how crap the “adventurous “ routing is on Garmin. It’s terrible. Tried it a number of times and back to back even having M’ways and major highways excluded it still looks for the fastest rather than twistiest route. When it does come up with a “twisty” route it’s far from it.
BMW doesn’t have “adventure “. You simply choose options, winding, then min-max.
But you know this Wapping.
On the XT, Garmin quite simply does not recognise anything beyond a certain point and/or classification. It’s certainly aimed at the road side of things. Even using Basecamp.
There appears to be no way to configure it to route any better.

 

[JohnnyBoxer]

Was a comment stating how crap the “adventurous “ routing is on Garmin. It’s terrible. Tried it a number of times and back to back even having M’ways and major highways excluded it still looks for the fastest rather than twistiest route. When it does come up with a “twisty” route it’s far from it.
BMW doesn’t have “adventure “. You simply choose options, winding, then min-max.
But you know this Wapping.
On the XT, Garmin quite simply does not recognise anything beyond a certain point and/or classification. It’s certainly aimed at the road side of things. Even using Basecamp.
There appears to be no way to configure it to route any better.

Well said
All true, sadly

 

[Wapping]

Well said
All true, sadly

For someone who rarely uses his XT, you are remarkably well informed. When you put the crap XT up for sale, do be sure to tell everyone what a pile of junk it is, JB.

 

[Wapping]

But you know this Wapping.

I never use the function. I only ever create my own routes.