I have created my route on BaseCamp and imported to the RV760. However, once I start navigating the actual route is changed by the RV760. Is there a way to disable any calculation and force the RV760 to follow what was created in BaseCamp?
As well as using shaping points the other things to check are that you're using the same map and version on both your device and in BC and that as far as possible routing and avoidance settings are the same.
I am using the same maps, I am using Shaping Points, I mam using the same profile. However, no matter what I do, the RV760 recalculates the route. The logic is not the same on BC and the RV760. Worst is that I do not know how to force the RV760 to follow the route created on BC. Why one will use BC if the GPS will do whatever it wants?
Well the GPS won't do 'whatever it wants' but you may not find it does exactly what you want. Sometimes you may have to alter a route sent by BaseCamp to ensure it matches what you want but generally I find routes sent to my GPS match most of the time. If you're finding that's not happening something is wrong. Are you able to post any examples?
Hi SUSSAMB, I am in Northern California, San Francisco Bay Area. Please try to route with a RV profile thru highway 152 off Highway 101. Start on 101 South, exit on Tennant Ave, Morgan Hill, turn left on Monterrey St., turn right on Watsonville Rd. Turn Right on 152 (Hecker Pass HWY) and go all the way to the entrance of the Mt. Madonna County Park at Pole Line Road. I have done this road with my RV more than 50 times in the last 10 years. Hwy 152 has a limitation of 45ft. If you use the RV profile, Base Camp will not allow you, no matter what, to go the last 5 or 6 miles before the entrance of the park. It will send you around the world so that you can approach Pole Line from the other side of 152. The only way to navigate this road is using a car profile. Once you import this route into the RV760, it will reroute everything unless I use the car profile.
Hwy 85 (north of Morgan Hill) has a limitation of 4.5 Tons for Commercial Trucks. There is no limitation for RVs or Buses. My RV is 13.5 Tons. If I use the right weight on the RV profile on the RV760, it will route me around all freeways, Hwys and bridges that have Commercial trucks limitations. The logic on the RV760 is the same as the 760DZL and it thinks the RV is a 18 Wheeler and therefore can't use the roads with limitation. I have to lower the weight to 4.3 Tons so that it will allow me to actually travel on most roads. However, there are places in which the limitation is real for ALL vehicles above certain weight and I am trying to pay attention to the advisory placards so that I do not get in trouble.
The logic in BaseCamp, even though you create the profile similar to the RV760, does not route the same way as the RV760. Someone needs to really gets deep and highlight all the differences so that users can adjust for this issues. Similarly, we need a recipe to STOP the RV760 to recalculate what has been done on Base Camp. Otherwise, as I said before, why use Base Camp. If creating a route on the RV760 would be easy....
At the moment, I am using Google Maps to explore all possibilities, then I go into RV forums and validate assumptions with locals or people that have travelled the roads in question. Then I change the profile for both BaseCamp and RV760 to car and create the route accordingly. I did this before Thanks Giving weekend as I was going to a new place in Santa Paula, Southern California. My route was set up for 101 all the way South with Shape Points. Imported the route into the RV760 as a Trip. Once I started navigating the Trip (using car profile), the RV760 change the route to use HWY 5 South (Truck preferred Route) off 101 using HWY 152 East that is the connector between the 2 HWYs . At least I know this part and simply kept going on 101 and then the RV760 recalculated as the difference is just 4 miles shorter on 101. Very unreliable if you do not know the place where you are navigating!!!!:(:(:(
