Does any system let you dictate which route?

[Aeroadster]

I've got a Garmin Nuvi and my wife has Tom Tom mobile on her Nokia N70 and one of the frustrating aspects I've found is that there's no simple way to take a route and use a shortcut or alternative route for part of it.

For example, I can travel from Leeds to London using either the M1 or A1. Since I know there's road works pretty much all the way down the M1 at the mo, I prefer to take the A1.

However, for the uninitiated, they may not know that taking the A1 is quicker so when you programme your London destination, there's no option to specify your route via the A1.

As a result, the Garmin and Tom Tom frustratingly keep trying to get me back onto the M1.

Does any system out there allow you to select the road you want to travel down?

The only way to achieve this presently seems to be to programme the route via another destination, which isn't necessarily the best or most accurate way of tackling the problem.

Thanks in advance

[alix776]

the only way at the moment for device and applications you have is to put a way pount in or use an itinery one option mabe to use the avoid part of route in tomtom or try planning an alternative route

copiot 6 will allow you to place more than one way point on your route or plan it on your pc.

iGO will allow you to place more than one waypoint on aswell
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[Aeroadster]

It's a shame that no one builds the functionality to let advanced users input which junction numbers they should join and leave motorways.

Also, if you choose to "Avoid Motorways" on many of these systems, you also end up avoiding anything that isn't B road.

I found this out when I tried to get from M1 junction 13 (after 3hours in a tailback) to cut through to Stevenage at 10pm one night.

I stupidly inputted the "avoid motorways" option and it took two hours to get home through the country roads.

[Oldboy]

On the TomTom the route will avoid the M1 for it's full length, if you use Find Alternative | Avoid part of route, and selecting the 166 miles of M1.

If you just use Find Alternative | Calculate Alternative, it will do the identical Route, in most cases.
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[robertn]

I you think carefully about what you are asking for, it's a lot more complex than it seems. You are asking the device to incorporate your local knowledge and personal preferences in it's routing algorythm. Although some adjustment is posisble, and a lot more could be done, there is, and never will be, a correct answer to any thing but the most trival route calculation

The device is designed to keep most people happy most of the time. Keeping one person happy all the time is possible but would be prohibitively expensive for most of us.

So what to do given the current state of technoloy and your local knowledge. Why not just drive the way you know is best, then use the Navigator when you don't know. Don't just follow it's instructions blindly, have a look at the rout it has calulated first, and if you don't like it, you can force it to change by
Adjust settings (limited usefulness)
Use Via (way points)
Use detour features
Use avoid road / area features

If all else fails, a paper map is an essential fallback.

[AllyCat]

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