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  Topic: Bad routing with a Garmin Nuvi 255W
philbattenburg

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PostForum: Garmin Portable Navigation Devices   Posted: Sun Oct 24, 2010 12:57 pm   Subject: Bad routing with a Garmin Nuvi 255W
YOu can get strange options selctd if the device is told to operate as a pedestrian or on a bicycle as opposed to an Automobile.

Check the
Tools
Settings - System - Usage Mode value.
Already do ...
  Topic: Bad routing with a Garmin Nuvi 255W
philbattenburg

Replies: 13
Views: 4476

PostForum: Garmin Portable Navigation Devices   Posted: Sat Oct 23, 2010 1:19 pm   Subject: Bad routing with a Garmin Nuvi 255W
Are you using any sort of Traffic (TMC) reciever with it?
No.


My mum has the 765T and she has the same complaint of "odd routes". I've advised her to just use her own / Google maps to plan most ...
  Topic: Bad routing with a Garmin Nuvi 255W
philbattenburg

Replies: 13
Views: 4476

PostForum: Garmin Portable Navigation Devices   Posted: Sat Oct 23, 2010 12:35 pm   Subject: Bad routing with a Garmin Nuvi 255W
It's running on the latest software available from Garmin, using the Garmin WebUpdater Software (checked just before I started this thread), and has the CN Europe NT 2011.10 Maps.

When I used the G ...
  Topic: Bad routing with a Garmin Nuvi 255W
philbattenburg

Replies: 13
Views: 4476

PostForum: Garmin Portable Navigation Devices   Posted: Sat Oct 23, 2010 11:48 am   Subject: Bad routing with a Garmin Nuvi 255W
I relatively recently switched from TomTom to a Garmin Nuvi 255W. I have found that the routing with the Garmin is dreadful. It always seems to want to take me down some stupid routes rather than usin ...
  Topic: Waypoints in TT5
philbattenburg

Replies: 30
Views: 8119

PostForum: TomTom Software-Only Products   Posted: Thu Jan 05, 2006 11:46 am   Subject: Waypoints in TT5
Phil

Who ever said it was well designed?
Roger
Nobody could ever accuse TomTom of producing well-designed software Wink

Without wishing to insult your intelligence try the following step by ...
  Topic: Waypoints in TT5
philbattenburg

Replies: 30
Views: 8119

PostForum: TomTom Software-Only Products   Posted: Wed Jan 04, 2006 11:07 pm   Subject: Waypoints in TT5
OK lads, to further demonstrate my point. Can anyone please send me a TomTom 5 Itinerary which takes me completely around the M25 circuit, in either direction, starting from any junction you like and ...
  Topic: Waypoints in TT5
philbattenburg

Replies: 30
Views: 8119

PostForum: TomTom Software-Only Products   Posted: Wed Jan 04, 2006 10:54 pm   Subject: Waypoints in TT5
Phil - Versions 5.1 and 5.21 will do exactly what you require above. Are you absolutely sure that Version 5.20 does not allow this? After all the various platforms use the same code base.

Roger

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  Topic: Waypoints in TT5
philbattenburg

Replies: 30
Views: 8119

PostForum: TomTom Software-Only Products   Posted: Wed Jan 04, 2006 7:03 pm   Subject: Waypoints in TT5
BodgerBaz,

I think that you are missing the whole point of what I am getting at.

I want to be able to use the TT5 software like a computerised road atlas, which you can with TT3. Here's an examp ...
  Topic: Waypoints in TT5
philbattenburg

Replies: 30
Views: 8119

PostForum: TomTom Software-Only Products   Posted: Wed Jan 04, 2006 4:06 pm   Subject: Waypoints in TT5
One of the uses to which I put my previous TT3 and PocketPC was to plan specific driving routes for a "driving club", going along roads of my choosing so that when I had the final route of MY choice, ...
  Topic: Waypoints in TT5
philbattenburg

Replies: 30
Views: 8119

PostForum: TomTom Software-Only Products   Posted: Tue Jan 03, 2006 10:12 pm   Subject: Waypoints in TT5
Workaround(5.1 only!)
It does actually work.
Roger

As already said, I'm using TT 5.2 and this workaround does not work.
  Topic: Waypoints in TT5
philbattenburg

Replies: 30
Views: 8119

PostForum: TomTom Software-Only Products   Posted: Tue Jan 03, 2006 8:43 pm   Subject: Waypoints in TT5
P.S.

I'm using TT5.2 on a Palm Lifedrive if that makes any difference to the performance of TT's features.
  Topic: Waypoints in TT5
philbattenburg

Replies: 30
Views: 8119

PostForum: TomTom Software-Only Products   Posted: Tue Jan 03, 2006 8:24 pm   Subject: Waypoints in TT5
Phil, use the advanced planning option on page two of the menu, this will do what you want - Mike

Perhaps I'm being a bit thick here. I understand how I can plan a route between, say, London as my ...
  Topic: Waypoints in TT5
philbattenburg

Replies: 30
Views: 8119

PostForum: TomTom Software-Only Products   Posted: Mon Jan 02, 2006 10:09 pm   Subject: Waypoints in TT5
I've just "upgraded" (IMO a backward step) fromTT3 to TT5.2 and the need for a GPS signal to allow you to experiment with the itinerary planning in the comfort of an armchair indoors, renders this fe ...
  Topic: Gps unreliable
philbattenburg

Replies: 6
Views: 3365

PostForum: Beginners GPS Lounge   Posted: Tue Jul 05, 2005 8:35 pm   Subject: Gps unreliable
I have an iPaq 2210 running TomTom 3 with the maps installed on an SD card, and a TomTom bluetooth GPS receiver which I've had for some 15 months. In the past few months, after the system has been swi ...
  Topic: Personal Points of Interest in Speed camera database
philbattenburg

Replies: 1
Views: 1490

PostForum: Points Of Interest (POIs)   Posted: Sun Oct 24, 2004 12:07 pm   Subject: Personal Points of Interest in Speed camera database
I'm presently running TomTom3 with the speed camera database available from this website. I've just checked and see that there is a newer database available, i.e. Version: v2.094 Last Updated on 30th ...
 
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