My i3 loves a closed road!!

supercliff · Posted: Mon Nov 06, 2006 7:10 pm Post subject: My i3 loves a closed road!!

Hi,
I was doen in ccornwall and used my i3 to find a route to somewhere in the middle of knowhere. A Karting track to be precise. I had the post code, so felt pretty confident that I'd get there.
There was only one problem, one of the tiny country roads was closed for about a 2 mile section (somewhere between the A30 and newquay).

I saw tha the road was closed, so went off at a tangent, hoping that my i3 would then find me another road. It did, but we ended up going back to the same raod, but half way down the closed section, if you see what I mean. I ended up again back tracking and heading off at a tangent, to get 'Re-Calculating' to another route.

I eventually got there by driving further out of the way, and attacking at a different angle.

i'm pretty sure there's no way of telling the i3 that a road is closed, unless anyone knows a way?

Can you tell any gps that a road is closed? so that it uses an alternative route?

Ta

Cliff
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tkerby · Posted: Mon Nov 06, 2006 7:22 pm Post subject:

I've been thinking about this for my Nuvi. Technically, the maps have a priority system such that routing takes place on the more detailed maps rather than the less detailed maps such as the basemap where possible. If we could create a very small map tile to replace an area where a road was closed with open space, effectively removing the road and assign it a higher priority than the normal maps then this should be possible.

How we would go about this - I dont know. It would be a really useful feature for Garmin to add to mapsource - I could see pocketgpsworld publishing a road closures database in addition to the speed cameras for this purpose

Nickwolf · Regular Visitor Joined: Apr 01, 2005 Posts: 219

It will work out a completely new route if you use the "detour" function.

As far as other sat. nav. systems go, you can tell a Tom Tom that there is a roadblock and it will work around it. You can also draw an area on a map and tell it to avoid that area (or at least you could on my old Tom Tom system). These are the types of features you are paying the extra money for over the cost of an i3.

Nick.

supercliff · Posted: Wed Nov 08, 2006 12:14 am Post subject:

Doesn't the Detour button take you on a completely new route? i.e attempting to avoid all the roades oon it's previously calculated route?
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bumpkin · Posted: Wed Nov 08, 2006 3:28 am Post subject:

tkerby · Posted: Wed Nov 08, 2006 9:38 am Post subject:

But mapsource has no way of downloading avoidances to your gps Sad

swing · Posted: Wed Nov 08, 2006 10:36 am Post subject:

I wonder if it's possible to get MapSource to create a map with the avoidances in it, and then use one of the img2gps / send map tools to create a supplementary map and then transfer this to the SD card to achieve what Garmin won't let us do....?

bumpkin · Posted: Wed Nov 08, 2006 11:44 am Post subject:

bumpkin · Posted: Wed Nov 08, 2006 11:46 am Post subject:

swing · Posted: Wed Nov 08, 2006 1:29 pm Post subject:

bumpkin · Posted: Wed Nov 08, 2006 2:30 pm Post subject:

billb · Posted: Thu Nov 09, 2006 12:08 pm Post subject: Re: My i3 loves a closed road!!

Hi Cliff

Try selecting the detour function, this has worked well for me.

billb

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