So far, I've posted about this problem in the following places:
- Dakota WikiSpaces: Create route in the field for hiking
- GPSReview.net Garmin Handheld Forum: Dakota 10: Creating a route in the field for hiking
- GPSpassion.com GPS Portables Autonome - Rando Forum: in French, no title, scroll to the bottom of the page
I've also spoken with and written to Garmin Tech Support about this anomaly.
The problem can be summarized as follow: on my Dakota 10, which has been suitably configured for pedestrians and on which is loaded a routable Garmin topo map of NE France, when I create a route in the field, the Dakota invariably directs me to the nearest highway and thence to my destination. The highways it chooses are equivalent to state routes in the U.S. Sidewalks or trimmed shoulders are not present. The routes are dangerous for hikers, though not forbidden for their use. When I return home and use BaseCamp to create the same routes, it invariably chooses trails, streets and small roads between the same two waypoints.
I realize this forum is not for Dakota routing problems, but for BaseCamp problems. I have no problem to report with BaseCamp. I'd just like my Dakota 10 to create routes in the field suitable for hiking.
Would the BaseCamp developers, by any chance, have anything to suggest?
