Numptie question

[Flying banana]

A quick qestion, if you all don't mind.... Today I used the 2610 to take me to Birmingham to a particular place. I had plotted the route in Mapsource and dumped it to the GPSR. When I wanted to come back home, couldn't for the life of me remember how to get it to take me back on exactly the same route, but in reverse. I did get back onto most of the route, by remembering where we had been, but it wasn't as easy as it should have been.

Looked at the manual when I got home, but could not see what I was looking for, so I thought the good people of the board would probably be able to help.

What to I need to do/press to achieve this?

Pardon me if I appear a bit thick here I also need to claw back some brownie points, as my wife said "I thought you said this thing was simple" etc, etc, while I am trying to look all knowledgable, and cool under pressure

other than that, it was fecking brilliant, what a joy to drive stress free, not having to worry about watching all t he road signs like a hawk, and not having to argue with the wife as to which way to go...etc, you know the drill

 

[John Armstrong]

Menu - route - "route to home" or something like that on the bottom left of the screen IIRC.

 

[Rockbyter]

You would need to reverse the route on your PC then download both to the GPS.

 

[ampthill]

Not sure if its the same for the 2610, but straightfoward on the Quest

On the Quest just press the 'menu' key when in route planner mode. You will then call up a menu which includes a 'reverse route' option

Peter

 

[Andy Davies]

Look at page 28 of the manual (which of course you have read!). It says that once a route is active, to retrace a route go to MENU/ROUTE - Return to start reverses the route and returns you to the point from which it was initiated.

Hope that helps.

Andy

 

[Flying banana]

Thanks for the advice, chaps.

"Look at page 28 of the manual (which of course you have read!). It says that once a route is active, to retrace a route go to MENU/ROUTE - Return to start reverses the route and returns you to the point from which it was initiated.

Hope that helps.

Andy"

Andy, I did that, and I checked part of the route to make sure that it took me back on the route I had travelled to get there. It appeared to take me a different way, which I didn't want, as it involved going through a town centre.


"You would need to reverse the route on your PC then download both to the GPS."

Rockbyter, if thats the case its a pain, but I will have to work round it.


"Menu - route - "route to home" or something like that on the bottom left of the screen IIRC."

John, that button would appear to allow the GPSR to sort its own choice out, so to speak, rather than using the previously planned route, which as I said above, was done for a reason.

Interesting that there have been at least three differnt answers!!

I am experienting at the moment to see exactly the result of each option in the GPSR.

Ta muchly, one and all, its appreciated

 

[MikeP]

I find the simplest option is to mark your home as a Waypoint and leave it there.

 

[Flying banana]

I find the simplest option is to mark your home as a Waypoint and leave it there.

Mike, I have done that already, so no problem there. The issue is not the destination, more that I was trying to drive back exactly the same route as I had taken, but the GPSR tried to take me differently, through a town centre, rather than the reverse of the route I had already planned.

CHeers

 

[cookie]

You would need to reverse the route on your PC then download both to the GPS.

i think this is the only answer, there is no "reverse route" on a 2610 AFAIK

dumb isn't it?

 

[MikeP]

See what you mean. I suppose the unit thinks the route it has chosen is the shortest/fastest depending on what preference you choose.

 

[John Armstrong]

i think this is the only answer, there is no "reverse route" on a 2610 AFAIK

dumb isn't it?

Maybe not. Would you want to be routed the wrong way down a motorway? Or, travel the "right" way but heading in the opposite direction that you want to?

What you might be able to do is go to the add / edit vias and change their order, checking that none are direction specific. And then save the new route otherwise if you have a power off then it'll revert to the original route AFAIK.

 

[Taff]

.. The issue is not the destination, more that I was trying to drive back exactly the same route as I had taken, but the GPSR tried to take me differently, through a town centre, rather than the reverse of the route I had already planned.

I haven't got a 2610 yet (and from the previous post, there appear to be some useful features which the SPIII didn't have) but I would have thought that the chances of the GPS unit sending you back on exactly the same the route is very slim, eg you may have travelled up via a one way street, which of course it wouldn't let you travel back on etc.

 

[cookie]

I haven't got a 2610 yet (and from the previous post, there appear to be some useful features which the SPIII didn't have) but I would have thought that the chances of the GPS unit sending you back on exactly the same the route is very slim, eg you may have travelled up via a one way street, which of course it wouldn't let you travel back on etc.

well, it could take you back as close to the outgoing route as possible.

i did a fabulously convoluted route down to dijon last year, worked it out on the pc. it was such fun i wanted to retrace my route back, but there's no way it was realistically feasable for me to get the 2610 to work it out.

found out later, you have to d/l both directions from the pc. reverse route is available in mapsource and AFAIK does not send you up any one way streets.

 

[HMR]

The best solution is to do it in MapSource as said earlier. This means uploading two routes to the GPSR. Works fine.

But what to do if you are out there 100 miles away from the PC? Suddenly you realize that you drove The Greatest Road and you want to return driving on the same road?

Do this:

- Switch off automatic off-route recalculation.
- Switch off guidance.
- Switch off automatic zooming.
- Select the preferred route

This leaves you with a map with the preferred road showing as a fat red line on the screen. Just follow this red line home. The GPSR don't care if you drive the route forward or backward as long as guidance is "off".

 

[John Armstrong]

i did a fabulously convoluted route down to dijon last year, worked it out on the pc. it was such fun i wanted to retrace my route back, but there's no way it was realistically feasable for me to get the 2610 to work it out..

It already had! It's known as "Tracklog". Dot to dot, simple really.

 

[Flying banana]

Gents, as ever, most helpful. The comments about it not sending me back on EXACTLY the same route are logical really, but I hadn't twigged. It does make sense now I think about it. Part of the route I travelled on the way to teh destination was on the M42, and I had worked out a route around the Warwick by-pass. When coming back, it sent me through Warwick itself, which wasn't a great problem. I have fiddled a bit more with it, and I think I know a bit more what i am doing now.

Now I understand a bit more, I will do two routes, and D/L them both, as suggested.

Thanks again