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Return Route Error

Former Member over 4 years ago

Hi,

Is there a limit on the distance that a 1030+ can calculate a return route for whilst riding?

I did a 88 Mile outward route to my destination using a preloaded route. I wanted to try using the calculate the most direct route home (not the return to start using same route). The Garmin kept on saying that I needed to put some waypoints in as the route was too big (or words to that effect. It showed on the initial map that the return route was 70 odd miles , when i clicked on Ride it jumped to over 100 and then wouldn't navigate. luckily a friend had a Wahoo?

It was only when I got within 30 miles of home did it calculate a route properly. In the end the ride was 195 miles long in a day.

I know the moral of the story is to have the preloaded route in the Garmin before you start, but has anyone else had this problem with long routes?

Thanks

Stewart

0 dpawlyk over 4 years ago

The Wahoo calculates routes on web . You could do the same with the Garmin.

What the Wahoo can do by itself is much less than the 1030 (you can't calculate routes on the Wahoo itself).

How hard would it have been to do the trip in separate legs or to use a few extra waypoints?

It should be easier to calculate routes on a phone (without needing the internet) and copy the routes to the device.

0 Former Member over 4 years ago in reply to dpawlyk

Hi, it wouldn't have been, but the fact is, is that it is a feature that didn't work until the distance was less than 30 miles.

I thought people might want to know

0 dpawlyk over 4 years ago in reply to Former Member

Yes, it's good people know about it. (I've known about it since the 800.)

It's not a "30 mile" limit. The limit isn't specific and depends on how much "stuff" is between the two points.

That is, if there are fewer roads, the devices can calculate longer routes.

The Wahoo can't even calculate routes (on the device).

People should also know that these are very limited computers and that it's harder to calculate routes for cycling than it is for cars.

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I had no problems having a 1030 calculate a route that was 51 miles (direct distance) away. The calculated route was about 82 miles. The device did warn me that it adding intermediate points might make the calculation faster (it was fast enough without the extra points). So, it's not like the device doesn't indicate that there won't be "issues" with calculating long routes.

0 Former Member over 4 years ago in reply to dpawlyk

The strange thing was that it didn't pick up that I was trying to do a return route from a different location.

So i cycled 50 miles back and then asked it again, and it didn't pick up I was 50 miles closer to home and kept on saying I had 100+ to go. It was assuming I was still at the location from when I first aske it to do a return route. Its almost like the cache wasn't reset for my current location

0 dpawlyk over 4 years ago in reply to Former Member

That's odd.

When you load a course and are not at the start, the devices give you an option to navigate to the start.

That might work better.

0 Former Member over 4 years ago in reply to dpawlyk

I know, I tried that as well?

I'll try again

0 dpawlyk over 4 years ago in reply to Former Member

There is no cache.

You should see the route start from your current location.

Routing to the start should work like routing to a location.