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Garmin 1000 - taking me off course

wmar67
over 4 years ago

I have a course laid out on the Garmin website. I noticed some time ago that Garmin was taking me off course - a shortcut if you will. Where I should've been going up to a roundabout and turning right and coming down a parallel road, my Garmin was taking me through a housing estate as a shortcut to get to the parallel road.

I was ignoring it - thinking I must have messed up when I created the course. But it does it every time and reports a Route Calculation Error - which was getting more than annoying.

So recently I logged in to Garmin Connect, attached the device and deleted the course. I then checked the course on the Garmin website and it was showing exactly how the route was showing on my Garmin and how it should've been. So I uploaded it again to my Garmin 1000 and went out riding.

Again, it tries to take me this shortcut - off route to what the Garmin "blue line" is showing for my course.

Is there a setting that's been added recently or switched on that would do such a ridiculous thing?

The below image shows my route (green and blue) and the red dotted line is the line it constantly tries to take me. The blue line is my actual course and is the course mimicked on my Garmin 1000 - but for some bizarre reason it keeps trying to take me down the dotted line.

  • 0 over 4 years ago

    It might be a map issue. Where is this?

    Note that this is the 1030+ forum. There's a 1000 forum (that you should have probably posted to).

  • 0 over 4 years ago in reply to dpawlyk

    Sorry - for some odd reason I didn't see the 1000 forum!

    I'll post over there

  • 0 over 4 years ago in reply to wmar67

    You don't have to.

    Where is this location?

  • 0 over 4 years ago in reply to dpawlyk

    UK...Colchester. I didn't answer that specific question because I didn't understand why it was relevant...the route shows properly on the Garmin unit. But as soon as I get to that junction, it takes me off course

    I've deleted the error and recreated it...checked it and double checked it

  • 0 over 4 years ago in reply to wmar67
    wmar67 said:
    UK...Colchester. I didn't answer that specific question because I didn't understand why it was relevant

    I've fixed issues on maps that were behind problems people where having.

    Even if you don't know the relevance, what's the harm in providing the information?

    You haven't provided any information that would be useful in trying to investigate your issue.

    Knowing the location (more precisely) gives something people can look at. It would even make it possible to create a route to reproduce the issue.

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    In any case, the units sometimes get stuck on creating a shortcut. There isn't any way to fix that.