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Trip Planner in Nuvi 3790T

Hi.

Please can you tell me how to create a route directly on the Nuvi screen which goes through a number of via points without treating each point as a separate route.

I have lost count of the number of time and the amount of fuel I have wasted due to the delay in the Nuvi slowly calculating the next part of the route and in the mean time I have ended up going down an incorrect road causing the Nuvi to then calculate a totally different route.

There appear to be two approaches to solving this problem:

1. Ensure the Nuvi goes through all Via Points if the End Point of route is selected as the GoTo point instead of it calculating a direct route to the End Point.

2. Provide the Routing capability which is available in the StreetPIlot 2610, GPSMap 76CSx and Zumo 550.

All three of these devices provide a sensible and reliable way of getting from start to finish with one contiguous set of routing instructions.

I cannot understand how anybody could have thought that Trip Planner was a replacement for Garmin's previous excellent routing.

Trip Planner relegates Garmin devices to being as poor as the early TomTom devices which suffered the same problem and on many occasions my motorcyclling colleagues had similar problems with their TomToms if the actual route did not pass precisely through each Via Point.

I know that I can create a route in Mapsource or BaseCamp using only Shaping Points but that is not much use if I am out on the road when I need a new route and anyway the Nuvi is quite capable of trashing a route which has been carefully crafted on the PC.

On this subject, downloading a number of routes at a time frequently results in only a random selection of them actually appearing in the Nuvi Trip Planner.

How I long for the old days of MapSource and StreetPilot when Garmin Devices and software worked reliably.

Regards

Roy

0 stuartmw over 12 years ago

I cannot understand how anybody could have thought that Trip Planner was a replacement for Garmin's previous excellent routing.

My bet is that all future nuvi products, and perhaps others, will have "Trip Planning" in lieu of routes.

All my devices (76CSx/Oregon 450/nuvi 1490T) support routes and I wouldn't have bought them if they didn't

As another poster said today "they can pry my (routing model) nuvi from my cold dead hands".

0 POPEJ. over 12 years ago

I have just bought nuvi 1440. Now I have all back: real routes with support in Mapsource, TMC delay info, POI on map. All for 1/5 of the price of my nuvi 3760.

@TURNERTECH: You can have multiple points route in 37xx, but only as active route. You should create route on nuvi manually. First use "where to" menu and select destination. Then use again "where to" and select a VIA, nuvi will give you option to add this as a real VIA to current route. 2 notes:
- You need to add VIAs starting form the farthest first. Nuvi 37xx is not able to sort VIA, like for example does old nuvi 255.
- Use it while it lasts. On recent nuvis adding VIAs to active route is no more possible. Or maybe nuvi 30/40/50 can add single VIA?

0 TURNERTECH over 12 years ago

Nuvi Routes

PopeJ,

Hi.

I can create multiple via points on the Nuvi directly and/or on the PC and download them. It is also possble to change the order of Via Points.

My beef is that it takes so long to activate the next section of each route that I end up driving on the wrong road before I get the new instructions.

I can see from other replies on the forums that people are abandoning Garmin in droves, either not purchaing new devices or moving to other more enlightened manufacturers.

This is a real shame because a few years ago Garmin was the world leader until they went mad on churning out masses of poor quality badly implemented products.

Roy

0 POPEJ. over 12 years ago

I can create multiple via points on the Nuvi directly and/or on the PC and download them. It is also possble to change the order of Via Points.

My beef is that it takes so long to activate the next section of each route that I end up driving on the wrong road before I get the new instructions.

You are talking about trips and trip planner. This is very different to multiple points active route described above.

0 TURNERTECH over 12 years ago

Active Route

PopeJ,

You are right.

I do not think I have needed to modify an Active route. Normally I would enter the new point and just use the "Start a New Route" option.

Later I would use Go to a Recently Found point.

Having 6 Garmin SatNavs I sometimes get confused remembering how I operate each of them.

The thing about standards is having such a variety of them. :-)

Roy