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My zumo sends me down the A40, but when I do it on the Mapsource it sends me down the M4
Iv'e checked the settings
Fu cken thing

 

[iandavid]

Edit>preferences> routing - in Mapsource. You need to set the slider to position 2 of 5 from the left to get Mapsource to avoid motorways. If it's the Zumo route that you don't like then switch of auto-recalc in the Zumo and the mapsource route will transfer as is. FWIW I also have Base Camp installed on my mac and that has a routing prefrence called "scenic". If you check that box it gives you some lovely non-motorway routes.

 

[Deleted account 250319001]

Edit>preferences> routing - in Mapsource. You need to set the slider to position 2 of 5 from the left to get Mapsource to avoid motorways. If it's the Zumo route that you don't like then switch of auto-recalc in the Zumo and the mapsource route will transfer as is. FWIW I also have Base Camp installed on my mac and that has a routing prefrence called "scenic". If you check that box it gives you some lovely non-motorway routes.

Cheers for your reply Ian,
What I don’t understand is that when I click go home from Brecon, with fastest time and no avoidances (As I do on Mapsource to check routes before I leave home) How possibly can the A40 with all its traffic lights, roundabouts, tractors and caravans be quicker than the M4. Which all my previous Garmin’s have always sent me down? If I chose to avoid motorways then fine. but I didn't.
I loved the 660 until it did this

 

[Steptoe]

Cheers for your reply Ian,
What I don’t understand is that when I click go home from Brecon, with fastest time and no avoidances (As I do on Mapsource to check routes before I leave home) How possibly can the A40 with all its traffic lights, roundabouts, tractors and caravans be quicker than the M4. Which all my previous Garmin’s have always sent me down? If I chose to avoid motorways then fine. but I didn't.
I loved the 660 until it did this

So you do this route regularly - why use the GPS

 

[Deleted account 250319001]

So you do this route regularly - why use the GPS

Oh here we go.... The stupid argumentative type of reply...
The actual route from my friends place, yes I do use regularly, however, the place I was going I was not familiar with. Is that OK? Or should I throw my GPS out into the ditch as it’s not cool to have a GPS.
Fuck off and do one ya great big tosser (I know you’re a midget but you get the drift)

 

[Steptoe]

Oh here we go.... The stupid argumentative type of reply...
D

Not really - just a logical question

 

[Timolgra]

Just use the GPS for the final/first bit and common sense for the rest

 

[Steptoe]

Just use the GPS for the final/first bit and common sense for the rest

Ahh, yes, but remember, nigel likes to obey orders

 

[Engineer]

Cheers for your reply Ian,
What I don’t understand is that when I click go home from Brecon, with fastest time and no avoidances (As I do on Mapsource to check routes before I leave home) How possibly can the A40 with all its traffic lights, roundabouts, tractors and caravans be quicker than the M4. Which all my previous Garmin’s have always sent me down? If I chose to avoid motorways then fine. but I didn't.
I loved the 660 until it did this

Sat navs are fundamentally stupid, they do not possess intelligence - I used to think that they were great, but after a several trips to France with a friend I have come to the conclusion that the human brain is a far superior navigational computer.

Matey had a Tom Tom and I had a Garmin and no matter how hard we tried they would never give us the same route (obvious really if you know about computers and electronics) - this caused all sorts of tension and stress as I want to go one way and he another.

Matey is non-technical and unlike me didn't really understand the reasons why they were different, it really did his head in .

Maps and the brain working in conjunction are far superior - blindly following a sat nav means that you don't bother to actually work out where you are (bit like a girl ) and as soon as there is a problem you are truly lost.

 

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Sat navs are fundamentally stupid, they do not possess intelligence - I used to think that they were great, but after a several trips to France with a friend I have come to the conclusion that the human brain is a far superior navigational computer.

Matey had a Tom Tom and I had a Garmin and no matter how hard we tried they would never give us the same route (obvious really if you know about computers and electronics) - this caused all sorts of tension and stress as I want to go one way and he another.

Matey is non-technical and unlike me didn't really understand the reasons why they were different, it really did his head in .

Maps and the brain working in conjunction are far superior - blindly following a sat nav means that you don't bother to actually work out where you are (bit like a girl ) and as soon as there is a problem you are truly lost.

Never been lost.

 

[Engineer]

Never been lost.

Then there is no need for a sat nav gps thingy innit.

As some have said they can sometimes be useful for the very start and the very end bit of a journey, but never rely on them.

 

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Then there is no need for a sat nav gps thingy innit.

As some have said they can sometimes be useful for the very start and the very end bit of a journey, but never rely on them.

Thank you for your advice
God, how would i ever get by without it

 

[Bumpkin]

I find that Garmins (not sure about TomTom as my experience is pretty limited with them) tend to ignore things like traffic lights etc. in calculating the time it would take to drive/ride a route. This may go part of the way to explain why your GPS is favouring the A40.

I'm pretty sure that mine just assumes that you can do the posted speed limit everywhere irrespective of the things that, in the real world, slow you down. I can just about keep up with the ETA on the bike on a cross country route, throw in a significant town or two and the ETA starts to creep. On the motorway or dual carriageway I can easily improve, slightly, on the ETA in both car and bike. As always; It seems so easy to slip behind yet so difficult to make time back up.

These days I rarely use my Garmin without pre planning the route, however, when I ask it to just get from A to B I just accept the routes it does come up with. That's unless I know better, or think I do, ignoring it's advice and let it recalculate.

For me my GPS is most useful for planning long trips or days out. For these I spend some considerable time researching the route and painstakingly plotting it Mapsource. My bike time is relatively limited so I like to make the most of it.

My Garmin displays an ETA on screen, which I can then adjust with local knowledge should the route be familiar. So if anyone calls and asks when I'll be at the destination I can provide a pretty accurate answer.

 

[Deleted account 250319001]

I find that Garmins (not sure about TomTom as my experience is pretty limited with them) tend to ignore things like traffic lights etc. in calculating the time it would take to drive/ride a route. This may go part of the way to explain why your GPS is favouring the A40.

I'm pretty sure that mine just assumes that you can do the posted speed limit everywhere irrespective of the things that, in the real world, slow you down. I can just about keep up with the ETA on the bike on a cross country route, throw in a significant town or two and the ETA starts to creep. On the motorway or dual carriageway I can easily improve, slightly, on the ETA in both car and bike. As always; It seems so easy to slip behind yet so difficult to make time back up.

These days I rarely use my Garmin without pre planning the route, however, when I ask it to just get from A to B I just accept the routes it does come up with. That's unless I know better, or think I do, ignoring it's advice and let it recalculate.

For me my GPS is most useful for planning long trips or days out. For these I spend some considerable time researching the route and painstakingly plotting it Mapsource. My bike time is relatively limited so I like to make the most of it.

My Garmin displays an ETA on screen, which I can then adjust with local knowledge should the route be familiar. So if anyone calls and asks when I'll be at the destination I can provide a pretty accurate answer.

Thanks Bumpkin,
I'm sure that’s right, it will just have a 60 mile an hour road without any lights or roundabouts. I do the same, I use the Sat Nav and trust it and plan in more detail on longer runs...

 

[B4ndit]

If I want to plan my route down a particular road I use Tyre.

 

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Thanks