Tomtom go 300 itinarary help@

scorpio1034 · Occasional Visitor Joined: Mar 12, 2006 Posts: 10

I have tried to plan my first itinerary which i have done using waypoints and destination points,and chosen my route the way i want to travel A roads and some Motorways etc,all is well till i press start navigation then the next box says please select a route type fastest route,shortest route etc,then select done,this is where it plans a route for but has not done the route i have planned it does a different route altogether,please can you help its driving me mad, or tell me if iam doing it wrong.Why does it ask me for fastest route shortest route etc if i have already told it the route i wish yo take?

sgould · Frequent Visitor Joined: Oct 05, 2004 Posts: 1320

If you have chosen "town centres" as waypoints the TomTom is unreliable. It seems to assume that anywhere within 5 miles is near enough. Make sure that you choose the waypoints as a point on map. Also zoom in close to make sure that you have chosen the point on the correct side of a dual carriageway.

It will still ask for fastest and slowest because there will still be a choice of routes between the points you have chosen.
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scorpio1034 · Occasional Visitor Joined: Mar 12, 2006 Posts: 10

Thanks for that, but i have made an intinarary step by step some motorway some A roads etc,then when i press start navagation it asks for fastest shotest route etc then calculates the journey but it is totally different to my itinarary.

gazza1 · Posted: Sun Mar 12, 2006 2:51 pm Post subject:

Add more waypoints until it follows the route that you want

Oldboy · Posted: Sun Mar 12, 2006 5:48 pm Post subject:

Oldboy · Posted: Sun Mar 12, 2006 6:31 pm Post subject:

scorpio1034 · Occasional Visitor Joined: Mar 12, 2006 Posts: 10

Yes i went straight to itinarary then put in start from home then after that made them all way points about 10,then destination on the last one,iam trying to plan a route starting at home then A roads joining motorway,back onto A roads down A5 south then pick up M1 tried it all day yesterday i have the plan and all the roads in the list but then it does the route all motorway and takes no notice of my listed route.

Andy_P · Posted: Mon Mar 13, 2006 1:16 pm Post subject:

scorpio1034 · Occasional Visitor Joined: Mar 12, 2006 Posts: 10

Yes i went straight to Itinerary,planned my route,then selected Start Navigation

Andy_P · Posted: Mon Mar 13, 2006 1:49 pm Post subject:

Bit stumped then, never seen "Start Navigation" Confused

If I go to "Itinerary Planning" and make my itinerary so it looks like this:

scorpio1034 · Occasional Visitor Joined: Mar 12, 2006 Posts: 10

Thanks Andy, my list is the same as you showed,then on the tomtom cd it says now select navigate to which i think is the same as selecting done,which then puts the screen navigate to destination yes or no i then select yes, then it pops up fastest route etc which i then select,it then gives me a different route altogether.This is the only problem i have with it all the other features work fine

scorpio1034 · Occasional Visitor Joined: Mar 12, 2006 Posts: 10

i have just tried it again i have all yellow arrows and destination at the end i have put in A roads, M53,M56,M6,A5,M1,Luton with address and house number,then i look at the route by text and it doesn't even use the A5

Andy_P · Posted: Mon Mar 13, 2006 2:59 pm Post subject:

I think this must all come down to how you are entering the data....
I just tried to do something like your route, and on my Go300 with maps v562 I can't find any of the M52, M56, M6, etc by searching via "address" (a real irritation I find).
The only way I could do it was to use "point on map" and scroll about until I could mark a point actually on the motorway carriageway (very laborious).

So how are you finding and entering these places? I'd love to know an easier way!

Anyway, having done it like that, I now had 6 entries:
M53 Md Wirral Motorway, M56, M6, A5, M1, Luton (done from "city Centre").

Selecting "fastest route" gave me an itinerary of (I wish I knew how to do screen shots):
M53, M56, M6, M6 TOLL, M6, A426, A5, A428, M1, A505, Luton.

So its doing what I ask, but then I've given it very specific instructions!

scorpio1034 · Occasional Visitor Joined: Mar 12, 2006 Posts: 10

Hiya iam starting off by putting in Wirral then m53 midwirral comes up j2,then to get to m56 m6 i put in Cheshire first then m56,m6, i must admit they could have made this a bit easier to pick out motorways when i chose M1 it always comes up Manchester M1 thats all,back to the drawing board i think,i still can't find out with all my waypoints in the list that it won't follow that route Crying or Very sad

Andy_P · Posted: Mon Mar 13, 2006 3:20 pm Post subject:

Mine accepts "Wirral" in the "Address" page, but not "Cheshire" Confused

How about go to the itinerary planning list, tap on one of the waypoints, then tap on "Show on map" on the next page, and see if that sheds any light.

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