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Why does Garmin remove parking areas from the maps? Extra distance/busy roads as a consequence in routing..

spinnekopje

It took me a while to figure out the problem, but it is clear that Garmin filters out parking areas from the map in the Garmin Explore app.

This is very annoying because certainly here in Belgium lots of those places are used for walking/cycling. The result is that you get lots of extra distance and the use of major roads although there is a much better alternative available!

When I know the area I can switch to a direct route for those pieces, but when the area is unknown you just can't guess..

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    Likely due to map filtering or routing data simplification, where parking areas aren’t treated as routable paths, forcing navigation onto main roads and causing longer, less efficient routes.

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    Likely due to map filtering—Garmin doesn’t treat parking areas as routable paths, so routing avoids them and prefers main roads, causing longer, less efficient navigation.

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    It seems Garmin excludes parking areas since they’re not considered routable, but that ends up forcing longer routes on busy roads. A toggle to include them would make navigation much more practical.

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