Thread: Routing?
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Old 10-25-19 | 09:35 PM
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KC8QVO
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Originally Posted by Seattle Forrest
You said on a recent 55 mile ride, you set a point on the map and it generated a route to get there, but not one you liked. What I'm suggesting is that you do that, but then start riding the way you'd prefer to go. Leave it in navigation mode and it will keep re-adjusting the route. At the point where you need it for directions, it will still know where you're going and where you are, and it will have a plan for how to get from A to B, it'll be ready to guide you.
OK, I'm following you now, no pun intended.

I will have to try that.

I did get 25 miles in today - mostly trails that I have been on a bit, but some new. I didn't use the routing through the new part much, but I did get a mile or so in of routing through a neighborhood - and it worked to get me back to where I normally pick up the next trail. So that was good, it just wasn't a long test.

I did try to route with minimal waypoints at the start of the ride but it wouldn't get past the neighborhood. It told me "calculation error" every time. I zoomed in and a trail that connects a dead-end in the neighborhood with a trail that parallels a main throughway was physically there, but the map detail in the Edge 1000 did not have it complete for some reason. So the Edge 1000 couldn't route through the gap in the trail. Oh well. I tried.
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