I'm fairly sure this is what's happening. I raised this issue with PanE some time ago, but the latest maps/routeing still suffer this problem. Untick 'Avoid U-turns' and all should be well.
Takes silly little detours... advice please!
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Davy F
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Just back from a trip to Normandy and whist driving down through England, we were sent off on a tour of a housing estate for no apparent reason. Looks like it's an easy mistake to make when setting up a route. 
Bumpkin
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That's the danger of dragging and dropping via-points from great altitude and not zooming in to check each one afterwards.Just back from a trip to Normandy and whist driving down through England, we were sent off on a tour of a housing estate for no apparent reason. Looks like it's an easy mistake to make when setting up a route.
This is when your travelling companions start to take the mickey saying how useless your gadget is and aren't maps so much better... etc... etc...
It's funny that they tend not to sing its praises when your GPSR swiftly delivers you all, with out fuss, to the door of your hotel late at night in a one-way infested foreign town
Howard Millichap
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You all have to remember that these things are programed by Americans. What we call a "hairpin bend" they call a "U turn". That's why it has difficulty routing up an Alpine pass when the "aviod U turns" is ticked.
Also, the reason it'll route away from a main road onto smaller roads is that it's avoiding 30mph zones. Those smaller roads most probably have a 60mph speed limit. So, the programing thinks that it's going the "faster" way.
It's all about the preferences you've chosen. I have my "road selection" setting right in the middle and it works fine.
