Route planning

[denny]

I'm currently on the south coast of Turkey and have had an unexpected change in plans. This means that my return leg to Istanbul will take a different route. I've plotted my new route and entered each town that I will ride through on the 'plan route' feature on the zumo, however when
I hit the go button it takes a whackey extended line plotting a 1250km route, when it should be about 650km. I entered each many points/towns so it wouldn't go astray but it has.

Unfortunatly I don't have access to mapsource (or a pc). Is there any way I can order the zumo to take the exact route I have entered?

Ps. First time posting on a phone...what an arse!

 

[diplomaticdanny]

Hi, I had the same issue, I went into avoidances, changed a couple of things and then recalculated route and it sorted itself out. You could also try (once it has calculated the route) going back to the home page and pressing detour. It is also worth checking the route zumo has chosen by tapping on the first command at the top of the screen and then pressing show map. This will give you an overview of the whole route, you may have routed through a town miles away with a similar name.

Danny

 

[denny]

Tried those mate, detour put another 750 kms onto the journey!!

Don't see the point of adding a new route when it doesn't take the tracks specified. Might save each town as a favorite & update as I go along...unless someone knows how to get this thing to do what I want it to do.

 

[Bumpkin]

When you preview the route does is display flags at the way-points you've plotted? Does this "whacky extended line" go way off the route and have a flag at the end of it? If the latter then it looks like you've got an erroneous way-point in there.

I assume that you've tried recreating the route.

Be careful if you're adding points using the 'Browse map' feature as adding a via-point on a dual carriageway or motorway it can easily wind up on the wrong side of the armco meaning your GPS will be asking you to double back the way you've come...

If all else fails, just do point to point or break the route up into chunks that do seem to work and link them together on the road.

Despite saying coverage in Turkey is comprehensive I just tried a sample route there and Mapsource did something very weird giving me a practically circular route of 500+ miles when it only really needed to do about 80

 

[denny]

It's the latter, with a chequed flag at the end. The route I have chosen has flags on the right places (towns specified via search) however there is a stretch of road highlighted running parallel for approx 350km north, 100kms east from my specified route...then another stretch with similar spec running west, neither route has a flag, both are roads that I want to avoid!

First time I'm using this & it already seems to be a waste of beer tokens! Hope it worksbetter in Europe!

 

[Bumpkin]

Can you give us a list of the towns that make up your route, will have a look in Mapsource and on my Garmin and see if I can replicate the issue.

I've only had puzzling diversions in Europe, when plotting in Mapsource, when I didn't realise that there were seasonal road closures on the route.

 

[denny]

Just managed to create three seperate routes after a lot of fiddling! Realised when very close up on the map that some towns shown on my paper map are off the main roads which might have been one reason why I was plotted a silly route. Doesn't explain why the same thing happened from when trying to reach a major city (Antalya) from a small town.

Thanks for the offer Bumpkin but I think I'm sorted for the time being. As mentioned earlier I'm new to the gps world and have spent no time getting accustomed to the device or it's features. Poorly laid out roads in Turkey doesn't help either.

Denny

 

[Bumpkin]

Glad you've sorted it. Have a good trip.

 

[denny]

Thanks, will try posting some pics on my return