Just when I thought I'd cracked it.

[vRSG60]

This was a test just to try something out. A simple route with 4 Waypoints plotted in Tyre.
Route set to "Driving", Picture 1. Settings as picture 2.
Route set to "Driving Tour", picture 3, settings as per picture 4.
Why on Earth has it taken me on such a route?
6 miles & 15 minutes longer? The only difference in the Route options is "State Highways" unticked. The road it's avoiding is a B road and the route it's taking is also a B road.
The second route even crosses itself and could take me back down the A682 to home on a road it's already planned for me to use on the outbound part of the trip but carries on into the back of beyond to get me home via Twiston & Roughlee.

Strange indeed. It's obviously the "State Highways" option which is cocking it up. How are we supposed to know what roads constitute each category!!!

 

[Wapping]

Easy answer first:Stop plotting your routes in one brand of software, 'Tyre' and then expect them to magically work just as you'd like them to each and every time in another different brand of software, 'BaseCamp'.

Easy solution, second: Use BaseCamp (or Mapsource) - not Tyre or some other non-Garmin derived software - to plot all your routes for use on a Garmin GPS in future.

Not quite so easy solution, third: If you must persist in using Tyre (or similar non-Garmin route creation software) and then displaying / using your efforts in BaseCamp for later use on your Garmin GPS device, get used to discovering the foibles and workaround solutions.... or contact the makers of Tyre to voice your extreme frustrations. They'll listen, or not.

 

[vRSG60]

I use Basecamp. The point of the excercise was to see what diffence it would make if I imported a Tyre route into Basecamp.
A 4 point route is fairly simple, the problem lies with the Basecamp interpretation of what each specific road type means.

It's the same result if I use Basecamp to plot the route.

 

[Wapping]

Just drag the route so that it goes along the roads you and not some dumb software (with all the foibles of the software writers' wishes and desires) and all your problems will be over.

Or contact Garmin to find out how they classify their roads, how that classification compares with the British, French and for that matter Japanese classifications and ultimately whether it matches your own interpretation.

Problem solved.

 

[leedude03]

when using one type of software/maps to create a route, and then transfering it to another different piece of software/maps this anomaly can happen. each piece of software has its own defining algorithms along with its own set of preferences that will define how it reacts within its own map, alter any of these and you may end up as you have done with different results, let alone then using a different piece of software/map to calculate what you expect to be the same route. you could do this with say google maps or bing or michelin online maps and maybe still get different results.
If you do not like the route that basecamp plotted you either alter it to suit, or dont use it and use your prefered software/maps to plot the route instead. me i use all sorts to plot routes, google, basecamp, mapsource, motogoloco, to name but a few, and without exception they all perform differently, but the garmin software/maps are as yet the only ones i can use without any form of internet or cellular connection, all i need is my netbook for either mapsource or basecamp to work.

 

[Wapping]

As always, the answer (or at least an answer) is out there:

https://forums.garmin.com/archive/index.php/t-143463.html

 

[vRSG60]

Thanks for that, clear as mud
Lots of "may & maybe" & "may & may not be" in there.
At least I know that State Highways aren't major roads.

Thanks anyway.

 

[leedude03]

Sorry about that, i have never been any good at explaining things, but as there are so many variables (settings, preferences, maps, software) there will be as many may and maybe and may or may nots between any or all combinations. i hope you can understand that.