Zumo not tracking position

[monkeyboy]

I'm heading east across Europe. Zumo was perfect until the moment I crossed the Dutch border and since then it has me way off the road all the time. I'm on autoroutes etc and it has me way off to the side so it's constantly recalculating. It's making things very difficult. In cities, forget it! The final destination lat longs are right when I arrive so it seems the bike is in the wrong place all the time when moving. When I crossed the Dutch border the road on the map jumped way to the right, like a big diversion when the road was just straight. It's really pissing me off and I still have a long long way to go! Any advice welcome

 

[Kenny Rodkiss]

Sounds like you are running on the basemap and not a detailed road map.
Done the same myself when I failed to load all the map tiles to cover the route I was taking.
Was only accutate to about 50 meters and instructions were only, head north or east with no turn by turn.

 

[monkeyboy]

Buggery sh@t I wondered why the details were rubbish! First time with a gps and I make a monumental feck up. Never mind eh. So I'd have had to load more maps from the web even though it had nt Europe on. I guess there is too much to hold onboard. I've got the sd card... Sitting in Southampton

I've got sd cards for Russia and china with me. I presume they'll be 'full fat'? I fecking hope so

Thanks anyway. I've been a home to mr knob end and now I'm paying for it ! Back to the maps it is then.

 

[Colin]

GPS

this might not be any help but my Tom Tom R2 was doing that 2 years ago going across France to Austria. I pushed a pin in the little hole to reboot it and then selected factory settings. and it worked. It just meant I had to put destinations in each day as we went out. good luck.

 

[monkeyboy]

Yea I was wondering about that too. It seems odd that it can't even put me on the few roads it knows about! I had a quick look earlier but could not find anything. Off to Warsaw tomorrow so another GuessPleaseSir day it is. Feck it. I've always managed with maps anyway

 

[iand46]

Yea I was wondering about that too.

If you do a hard reset (factory settings) on a Garmin it will delete all your favourite's & routes.

 

[Katnip]

zumo

I had something similar last year where the icon was about a centimetre off the road I was travelling and it was playing up. Throughout the day I noticed the map detail was getting less and less. I took out the battery, you need a small allen key, left it for a few minutes and when I replaced it, it ran perfectly!

 

[stever1]

It may be a daft question but are the maps up to date ?.

 

[Wapping]

It is not unknown for devices' aerial / receiver circuits to fail, resulting in exactly the problem you are encountering. Then, the only fix is an exchange unit from Garmin.... Or buying a new unit.

Whilst it appears that the OP's problem is nothing more than having no detailed maps installed, the same might not be true for other fellows: so here's what to do:

Keep it simple.

Go in order:

Check your detailed maps are OK

Soft reset

Hard / full reset (back the data up first, if possible)

Garmin exchange device

New device

Or,,,, just don't go to Holland

 

[monkeyboy]

Thanks all. Did the soft reset, no difference. I'm in Lithuania now heading east. No turning back! I've got sd cards for Russia and china and I hope they work. I was a complete cock before I came out and didn't even plug the unit into the computer! If the offset problem still happens I'll do the battery out thing. If that fails I'll get the sextant out

 

[Kenny Rodkiss]

If your maps are on memory card they will be classed as suplimentary maps and if you zoom out to, 120mls, the supplementary map tiles become visible.
So you can then see what areas you have loaded on the card.

 

[monkeyboy]

Thanks kenny. The Europe maps I'm having problems with are base only and are on the device. The sd card maps are for when I get to the other countries

 

[Bumpkin]

If you're lacking detailed mapping and have internet access in the evenings then you could buy an SD card, if you don't have sufficient room on one of yours, and download mapping from OpenStreetMap, it's really very good. Or alternatively go retro with paper maps, in reality no great hardship if your trip is a relaxed one.