real easy problem I'm sure, but having missed a point on a route, its always trying to turn you around to go back and hit it.... How do you get it to move on? I'm a very basic user
This problem is taken care of in your GPS.
On NAV 5/6 You do as follows:
1 On the Home Page, push 'Setting' (Lower right corner)
2 In Settings Page, push 'Navigation' (Line 2 on my NAV6)
3 In 'Navigation' page, hit Off-Route Recalculation..
4 In 'Off-Route Recalculation' page, the default is Automatic. This means that any time you miss a point, the GPS will recalculate the route in order to help finding your waypoint. (Meaning in many cases turning back)
There are two more options: 'Off' and 'Prompted'.
In 'Off' mode, the GPS will not under any circumstance change the selected route, and if the GPS has selected a small shortcut on the road that will take you away from the desired road and onto a less attractive road only to join the desired road further down (a detour chosen in order to save time/distance by a fraction of time), the pink line on the GPS will hold on to the selected road, and if you zoom in, the road may disappear from the screen and you will see it again when the route once again joins the rode that you ride on.
The 'Prompted' option pops up a window whenever you miss the selected road and ask if you want to recalculate or not.
The latter option is rarely used, however, if you navigate without voice- command in the helmet this option is pretty handy. In Automode the GPS will quickly recalculate whenever you miss an intersection. If you happen to not look at the screen as you miss the turn-off, the GPS recalculates and you continue to follow the pink line as happy as a redneck with a cold beer. If you select 'Prompted' the window asking for permission to recalculate pops up, and you will be notified that you missed the planned route.
All options have their pros/cons, I personally change between them, depending on how and where I ride.
One more function that is quite handy:
On the BMW navigator (No other Garmin GPS that I know of) you may select two buttons that are positioned on the right side of the screen.
Go to Settings/Map&Vehicle.
On the Map & Vehicle page, the 'Map Buttons' come up as option line 5, so there is a need to scroll.
When you hit the Map Buttons option, the selected Dashboard comes up, and on the right side there either show two buttons already selected, or two circular symbols with a '+' inside.
When you hit one of the '+' buttons you will come to a list of choices. I prefer the 'Skip' command and the 'Detour' command.
When 'Skip is activated, and you pass a way point that you do not want to return to, the 'Skip' button will become visible, and by hitting it the GPS will act as if the waypoint was not there. In automatic calculation, a new route will be calculated.
With automatic recalculation switched off the skip button still becomes visible, but no recalculation will be performed. This is where the 'Detour' button becomes handy. By pushing it the GPS will recalculate the route form your present position via the next selected waypoint on your route.
