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jook
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 Posted: Mon Jul 25, 2005 9:25 am Post subject: Avoid minor roads? |
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| I recall the TomTom Navigator had an option where you could choose your road preference e.g. avoid motorways, avoid minor roads. Has the option been lost in TomTom Go? I have the 700 model and used it for a trip to rivington pike (just to see how it would cope). I only live 15 miles away. It took me up a small side road which then preceded to turn into a dirt track ending in a field! Telling it to calculate an alternative route then got me there, but through many narrow b roads where there is only enought room for 1 car at a time to get past. I would have got there a good 10 minutes earlier sticking to the route I would normally pick on the more major roads! |
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linknet
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| Posted: Mon Jul 25, 2005 10:04 am Post subject: |
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| Quote: | | I recall the TomTom Navigator had an option where you could choose your road preference e.g. avoid motorways, avoid minor roads. Has the option been lost in TomTom Go? |
This is a major problem with all versions of TomTom 5, whether on the GO, PDA or mobile platform. I am constantly being routed down extremely narrow roads when there is a perfecly good alternative, slightly longer, but much less risk of bodywork damage.
Currently there is no way to change the basic routing algorithm to avoid, unless absolutely necessary, all minor/unclassified/narrow roads apart from actually modifying the route yourself. To do this usually requires you to have a knowledge of the local area and if you have that then you don't need TomTom anyway.
There needs to be a means of adjusting the road speeds and preferences to create a more sensible routing model.
It's about time TomTom addressed this.
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Tumbleweed
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| Posted: Sat Jul 30, 2005 8:32 am Post subject: |
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| linknet wrote: | | Quote: | | I recall the TomTom Navigator had an option where you could choose your road preference e.g. avoid motorways, avoid minor roads. Has the option been lost in TomTom Go? |
This is a major problem with all versions of TomTom 5, whether on the GO, PDA or mobile platform. I am constantly being routed down extremely narrow roads when there is a perfecly good alternative, slightly longer, but much less risk of bodywork damage.
Currently there is no way to change the basic routing algorithm to avoid, unless absolutely necessary, all minor/unclassified/narrow roads apart from actually modifying the route yourself. To do this usually requires you to have a knowledge of the local area and if you have that then you don't need TomTom anyway.
There needs to be a means of adjusting the road speeds and preferences to create a more sensible routing model.
It's about time TomTom addressed this.
Roger |
Got to agree, an 'avoid minor roads where possible' or 'choose route with fewer turns' (eg a 'use main roads' option would be far more preferable to me than the 'avoid motorways' or 'shortest route' options.
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Stanley_Tweedle
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| Posted: Sat Jul 30, 2005 2:12 pm Post subject: |
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I would vote for this feature, most minor roads are good to drive and some aren't; is the map data good enough to distiguish, I thought the maps were checked by actually driving roads?
But yes a setting to exclude them would be good.
What is wrong with the old autoroute style preference settings, these could be hidden behing a Custom screen, so we could have Fastest, Shortest, cycle etc and Custom. |
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rkm_hm
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A possible solution may be to navigate using the 'Major Roads of Europe' map rather than the detailed country map. This should get you pretty close to your destination without using minor roads (because it doesn't know about them!).
Not sure whether you can do this on the 700? Maybe it doesn't have MRE because it has a detailed map of the whole of Europe.
My idea should certainly work on the Classic - where MRE comes as a separate map, supplied on the CD. On other models, you'd probably need a Plus map for a different country from your present location so that it would be forced to use the MRE portion.
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bmwman
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What's your Routing Preference set to?
Mine is set to "Ask each time" and I usually select "Quickest", in which case it avoids minor roads like the plague.
If I want to take a particular route via (say B roads) then I have to set some Waypoints to force the routing onto minor roads.
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alix776
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| Posted: Sat Jul 30, 2005 5:07 pm Post subject: |
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dont have the problem at all its not taken me the wrong way yet
though i am useing limited speed set at 54mph might have a ride up to rivi later
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