I created a round trip route using via points in Basecamp and transferred it to my Oregon all good, but then when I select the route and press 'Go' it just take me to the final point! What am I doing wrong here, thanks.
Hmmm, I say round trip but I did have the end about 200 metres from the start just to not confuse the gps but it still navigates to the final point as the next point and then calls it a day. What I do not understand is that the Routes are directional so I'm perplexed how this problem occurs. It appears that the Oregon is simply ignoring anything other than what shaping point is the closest.
I'm thinking that maybe the problem is that the Oregon changes shaping points into Via Point? Guess I'll just have to split the route or maybe turn the shaping points into waypoints and then make a route by numbering them in order. What I do notice though is that when I look at the route in basecamp it does not say 'start' or 'end' like it does sometimes. I guess this is just a problem of the Oregon then not handling this well.
Hmmm, I say round trip but I did have the end about 200 metres from the start just to not confuse the gps but it still navigates to the final point as the next point and then calls it a day. What I do not understand is that the Routes are directional so I'm perplexed how this problem occurs. It appears that the Oregon is simply ignoring anything other than what shaping point is the closest.
Correct, all Garmin handhelds work that way, at least the four I've owned have, hence my comment about ensuring you're closer to the start than the finish.
Hi, I perhaps worded my comment badly. I do have the start point where I am starting from and the end point is a few hundred metres away, are you saying then that it is normal for handhelds to ignore the direction of the route and simply just go to whatever the next point is that is the closest even though it starts at the right point to begin with?
Correct. It'll go to the nearest point wherever you start it. If you want to start at the start you must be closer to it than any other point.
That was not what User1123 wrote.
Think of a route consisting of points 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5. You are standing at point 1 when you start. Point 2 is 400 meter away. Point 3 is 800 meter away. Point 4 is 700 meter away. Point 5 is 200 meter away.
What User1123 was speculating was this: After picking up that you are at point 1, the watch will select the next point to go to. We would of course want it to select point 2 because that one is next in line, but could it be that it instead picks the nearest of the remaining 4 points, which happens to be point 5?
I do not think I have seen that behaviour. I have of course seen the behaviour you describe, but that is something else.
Well you can surmise all sorts of things, but the OP was initially wondering why it was choosing the final point rather than the end, and it will do that if you're closer to the end than the start. Also should you start a route somewhere along the route between the start and finish it'll pick up the nearest point. This makes sense if you think about it when walking, If you veer off route then your device will lock onto the point it was expecting you to visit next until it's closer to another point then it will switch to that. Equally if you decide to cut across your route your device will start increasing 'distance to end' as it assumes you're trying to get back 'on route', eventually it will realise what you're doing and your distance to end will then reduce appropriately. All perfectly normal, reasonable and consistent with how Garmin handhelds have always worked ;)
In any case your device cannot 'take you' to any point. Which way you go is entirely up to you :)
