FEATURE REQUEST: Avoidances

Right now I'm in the middle of a couple of migrations -- first from Windows to Mac, and then from Mapsource to BaseCamp -- and noticed that BaseCamp does not appear to support avoidances (specific roads or areas which will not be used in routes).

For example, I'm traveling on an Interstate where one interchange with a US highway is currently closed, with the US highway itself being closed in that area. I would like to be able to say either

1) don't use this stretch of US highway, or

2) don't pass through the areas parallel to the Interstate (where the ramps would pass were they open).

Mapsource does this, and it's pretty handy when planning a number of routes in the area since I don't have to remember move routes away from a closed highway.

Thanks!

Don

I would like to see avoidance, but if my GPS can't use the feature when I upload the route, I'm not sure it would be of much benefit. If BC had avoidance, it would be extremely useful for the many closed roads, especially on national forest property. Some of the roads have been close for 20 years and I don't think the Garmin maps or anybody maps will ever be updated. I'm probable missing something here but if I have to add 20 shaping points to get the route in my gps, what good is it? Can you upload an avoidance waypoint to the montana and have it use the avoidance? If Garmin does not make a gps that can receive routes from BC calculated with avoidance, should we not be requesting this feature form Garmin as opposed to the developers?

This is the issue I have with this feature in BaseCamp, as I've stated in a different post. No device since the Streetpilot 27xx supported the same form of avoidances. So putting them into BaseCamp doesn't really help when the route is sent to the device and makes the difference between BaseCamp and the device routes even bigger.

I would strongly recommend that people chime in on the Garmin Ideas location to request the device support this feature.