U Turns 2720

[Popeye]

Is there a way of setting up "AVOID U TURNS" in the routing preferences using a 2720 as there was with the 2610 ?

 

[st13phil]

Is there a way of setting up "AVOID U TURNS" in the routing preferences using a 2720 as there was with the 2610 ?

Yes, there is. I don't have my 2720 in front of me, but from memory the menu path is Settings>Navigation>[down arrow]>Avoidance Setup. Then use the down/up arrows to scroll through the list of road types to avoid.

 

[Popeye]

Yes, there is. I don't have my 2720 in front of me, but from memory the menu path is Settings>Navigation>[down arrow]>Avoidance Setup. Then use the down/up arrows to scroll through the list of road types to avoid.

Yup, thanks, found that options screen myself but there is no U Turn avoidance choice. Is it buried elsewhere or is it just not available anymore.

 

[st13phil]

Yup, thanks, found that options screen myself but there is no U Turn avoidance choice. Is it buried elsewhere or is it just not available anymore.

It's definitely available, and my unit is set to avoid U-turns! I'll double check the nav path tonight with SP2720 in hand and post back. In the meantime, which unit software version are you using and (obvious question) did you scroll down on the options screen to see all the categories?

 

[John Armstrong]

Tried looking in the "Off Route - Recalculation" in changing the navigation settings pages?

Page 34 of the manual, here: http://www8.garmin.com/manuals/StreetPilot2720GPS_OwnersManual.pdf

 

[Tomcat]

Think twice before avoiding U-turns

I was using my Quest to guide me on a run down in the South of France at Easter. It was a Sunday, I was a bit low on fuel but was heading for my hotel about 60 miles away when I saw a turning off to the Gorges Galambos (or something like that). The gorge sounded too good to miss, so I turned off the route, and let the Quest recalculate... The gorge was brilliant, and the route carried on out the other end, then another 5 miles to a small town, where it took me round the centre of town....then back up through the gorge .

I couldn't figure out at first why it had done this, until I looked at a map. The road through the gorge was in the opposite direction to the hotel, so having ridden through it, the quickest/shortest route back to the hotel was to turn around and ride back through. But because I had the Quest set to avoid U-turns it took me on a 10 mile ride just to turn around in the next village . If I had not had the 'avoid u-turns' set I would have turned round in a layby at the bottom end of the gorge and saved the 10 mile detour.

Because of the detour I ran seriously low on fuel so had to blag a fill from a local with a French credit card at an automatic pump

So now I've set the Quest so that it does not avoid U-turns!

 

[John Armstrong]

I couldn't figure out at first why it had done this, until I looked at a map. The road through the gorge was in the opposite direction to the hotel, so having ridden through it, the quickest/shortest route back to the hotel was to turn around and ride back through. But because I had the Quest set to avoid U-turns it took me on a 10 mile ride just to turn around in the next village . If I had not had the 'avoid u-turns' set I would have turned round in a layby at the bottom end of the gorge and saved the 10 mile detour.

Had this as well, also in France, and like you don't have the avoid u-turns on

I've also noticed on the PC that "avoiding u-turns" can mess with the routing on some of the mountain passes The one I found it one was the Grossglockner heading north and diverting off to the Franz Joseph parking area (IIRC). Avoiding a u-turn it wanted to take me back south, and not north and continue up the pass

 

[Popeye]

Thanks for help and thoughts, I've now got it sussed

Just trying to acclimatise myself to the changes between the 2610 and 2720. It's amazing how proficient you become with one model and then end up all a bit at sea with the new one.

Good transition though, glad I made the switch.

 

[skellum]

Had this as well, also in France, and like you don't have the avoid u-turns on

I've also noticed on the PC that "avoiding u-turns" can mess with the routing on some of the mountain passes The one I found it one was the Grossglockner heading north and diverting off to the Franz Joseph parking area (IIRC). Avoiding a u-turn it wanted to take me back south, and not north and continue up the pass

Yup, had the same problem with a quest doing the Stelvio Pass - it was telling me to perform a U-Turn all the way up and down!..

 

[st13phil]

Thanks for help and thoughts, I've now got it sussed

OK, for those who haven't sussed it, the navigation path is: Settings>Navigation>[Down Arrow]>Avoidance Setup>[Down Arrow]U-Turns

 

[PanEuropean]

...It's amazing how proficient you become with one model and then end up all a bit at sea with the new one...

No kidding - try having to start using a new unit on the motorcycle about once every 6 weeks, whilst going back and forth between a 496 and a 500 series panel mount in the aircraft at the same time. Sheesh, it's like a Tower of Babel.

The reason for all the UI (User Interface) changes is understandable: Personal Navigation Devices are becoming more mainstream now, thus the user interface has to be something that your mother can figure out as soon as she takes it out of the box, without reading the manual. I suppose this can be a good thing for new users who are just starting out with their first GPSR, but it can be a bit of a 'speed bump' in the road for those of us who have been using automotive GPSRs for a few years.

In many ways, it is like the evolution of personal computer operating systems over the past 20 years, except it is happening at about 10 times the speed. Imagine using DOS one year, Windows 3.1 the next, Win 2000 the next year, then Vista the year after that. (Perish the thought).

An interesting postscript - I went out to lunch a couple of weeks ago with a group of Garmin software engineers that I collaborate with. I had a new GPSR sitting on the dash of the car, and the engineer sitting in the front passenger seat had not seen or used that model before (he specialized in a different model). He picked it up and started to try and figure out how it worked, just poking his way through the menus. The guys in the back seat - those being the folks who wrote the software for this new device - would cheer each time he successfully figured out how to do something, and would razz each other with "Ooops, gotta make that one smoother" comments each time the guy in the front did not successfully accomplish a task on the first attempt.

Michael

 

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good to see you back... what new in the GPS world