Thx Wapping, but my orange flags are alert shaping points, not way points right?
I don’t have my GPS device available but I think the orange flags shown in post #1 are waypoints, not shaping points that - whilst they may have been created by you just to shape a route - the device sees as specific points that:
A. You must go through
B. You can, unlike simple unannounced shaping points, ascribe a quality to. For example give them a specific name, give them an owner created stopover time, give them an owner created symbol other than a flag. In a way, they are just like your start point home, to which you could have ascribed a departure time to. That time, let’s say it was 10 AM, would then have appeared as 10:35 against Birch Bank, the device having already calculated that the journey time between home and Birch Bank as taking 35 minutes
These waypoints then become intermediate set destinations in their own right, part of (but independent of) your main journey route of A to B. You can see how your Garmin device treats them as specific standalone destinations in their own right in the second picture:
In short, Birch Bank and 1st Action are specific destinations (waypoints, which Garmin actually calls viapoints) in their own right, set in stone just as solidly as home and your final destination.
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This thread shows how powerful the BaseCamp / Mapsource software, when coupled to the latest Garmin GPS devices, has become. They can do the simplest of things, taking a bod from A to B say and do all sorts of other things as well. Their usage is sometimes not completely intuitive, which I think is what sometimes spoils the experience for some people, who are used to things ‘Just working’. The best way to learn is to keep trying things out and doing so in real life, not just sitting at home. Suddenly, it will all just click into place, though I’ll confess to sometimes forgetting how or why I did something. I can usually guess and learned long ago that I really can’t break it..... and I can always turn it off!
In a separate thread, you can read about how to change announced waypoints (flags) into unannounced shaping points (little blue dots) and back again if needs be, all from within the Garmin device itself. Have fun whilst you muck about.
PS Somewhat confusingly perhaps, Garmin themselves call the flags and blue dots something different, as this cut-and-paste from their manual shows. Leaving aside the name changes, the purpose and role of the little flags and their sisters, the blue dots, is explained quite well:
Trip Planner
A trip can consist of up to 29 via points and one final destination. Up to 125 shaping points can be included between each via point.
About Via Points
Via points are intermediate destinations within a trip. An orange flag indicates a via point on the map. A trip can contain up to 29 via points and one final destination. While navigating a trip, the device announces your arrival at each via point.
About Shaping Points
Shaping points are intermediate points between destinations or via points that can be used to shape the direction of your route. A blue dot indicates a shaping point on the map. You can have up to 125 shaping points between each destination or via point. While navigating, the device does not announce your arrival at each shaping point.