Can U turn-off auto recalc on Zumo?

[JayGee]

Hi Folks,
About to buy my first GPS and considering a Zumo (maybe wait for the 450). Is it true that you can't turn off the automatic route recalculation? In my view a bike GPS that destroys a pre-entered route (by recalculating)whenever you go off route is practically useless (well it is for me). Most riders I know turn off the auto route recalc as the way we get somewhere is just as important as getting there. Any comments from Zumo users would be appreciated, is there a way round the auto route recalc?

 

[mandoonsouf]

I can't help but am subscribing

to this thread. I am awaiting delivery of a nice shiney new Zumo, and was hoping to use a file of Logis hotels (as donated by Mr Whatton) and other POIs, uploaded once, but as time allows, take the odd detour - I would not want to lose all the route(s) I had created and uploaded.

Have I misunderstood how these things work? Can you create a route by selecting items such as 'No Motorways' for example?

 

[Dutchman]

Hi Folks,
About to buy my first GPS and considering a Zumo (maybe wait for the 450). Is it true that you can't turn off the automatic route recalculation? In my view a bike GPS that destroys a pre-entered route (by recalculating)whenever you go off route is practically useless (well it is for me). Most riders I know turn off the auto route recalc as the way we get somewhere is just as important as getting there. Any comments from Zumo users would be appreciated, is there a way round the auto route recalc?

Garmin tell us the 450 will not be imported into the UK.......

Dutch

 

[ebbo]

Hi Folks,
About to buy my first GPS and considering a Zumo (maybe wait for the 450). Is it true that you can't turn off the automatic route recalculation? In my view a bike GPS that destroys a pre-entered route (by recalculating)whenever you go off route is practically useless (well it is for me). Most riders I know turn off the auto route recalc as the way we get somewhere is just as important as getting there. Any comments from Zumo users would be appreciated, is there a way round the auto route recalc?

According to this thread on the Zumo forum, Garmin will be issuing a fix quite soon.
http://razorbiker.com/zumo/viewtopic.php?t=369

And your quite right, as things are now, you go to all the trouble of design a route on the PC and the Zumo will redesign it for you the moment you go off route....

 

[JayGee]

According to this thread on the Zumo forum, Garmin will be issuing a fix quite soon.
http://razorbiker.com/zumo/viewtopic.php?t=369

And your quite right, as things are now, you go to all the trouble of design a route on the PC and the Zumo will redesign it for you the moment you go off route....

It seems that there are two issues with recalculation of routes:-
Put a route in Mapsource "download it to Zumo" and it gets recalulated before you even start to use it.
The other problem is that it auto recalcs when you go off route. It will be interesting to see which if any of these two features they change.

i see Dutch says that the 450 isn't planned for distribution in the UK and I'm sure he's right but with the plummetting prices of the competition garmin may well change their mind in order to have a competitive non-blue tooth model. There are many bike riders for whom blue tooth is an irrelevance (well there is at least one- me )

 

[mandoonsouf]

Planning routes on MapSource

The other problem is that it auto recalcs when you go off route.

I was going to build one route for an entire weeks holiday in France - is it better to create several, one for each day then I wonder


Just set up each day as a seperate route - a lot easier to manage. Then I think (RTFM) I could stop the route when travelling, start a new one if there was somewhere we wanted to visit off route, then start the old one again.

 

[chasr]

I was going to build one route for an entire weeks holiday in France - is it better to create several, one for each day then I wonder


Just set up each day as a seperate route - a lot easier to manage. Then I think (RTFM) I could stop the route when travelling, start a new one if there was somewhere we wanted to visit off route, then start the old one again.

I think you've answered your own question

One tip - 'drag' your routes via (non-dual carriageway) roads that are outside of towns/villages, rather than selecting the middle of such places. You'll find yourself doubling back on yourself, otherwise.

 

[ebbo]

One route or many routes, it’s what ever takes you’re fancy. On our last trip I had 4 routes pre planned and shared with my GPS buddy.

First route: To Southampton docks including pre arranged stops for fuel and refreshments every 100 miles.

Second route: Santander to Jaca and the first nights accommodation in Spain

Third route: Jaca to Tossa through the Pyrenees on the Spanish side (two days).

Fourth route: Tossa back to Santander through Andorra and the French Pyrenees (three days).

All together it worked very well, If I was doing the trip again I wouldn’t change that layout. How you number/title the routes really matters though, so you don’t get confused what route to use next!

 

[mandoonsouf]

Good tip

I think you've answered your own question

One tip - 'drag' your routes via (non-dual carriageway) roads that are outside of towns/villages, rather than selecting the middle of such places. You'll find yourself doubling back on yourself, otherwise.

Cheers

 

[JayGee]

Am I correct in assuming that you can force route recalculation once the route is in the Zumo. Then add via points to make the route go the way you want it. Presumably that would then mean that recalcs when you go off route would be less of a problem.
Is there a problem adding quite a few via points to a Zumo?
If my experience of a friends Quest2 is anything to go by it's vital to add via points that are a point on a road either just before or just after a village/town; if you put a village/town as the via point then it takes you into the town centre and out again. Untill we worked this out we did a circuit of several village squares, leaving the road to visit the Marie and then rejoin the road