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1040 course reroute. Does it work?

Pete1336
over 3 years ago

I have the Edge 830 and the reroute option when going off course whilst navigating has always been pants. It just tried to reroute you back to the point you left the set course as opposed to finding you the fastest way back on up ahead.

I hear Garmin improved this on the 1030 plus but I've never seen evidence of this. As a future potential buyer of the 1040 then I want to know does the reroute function work properly? 

Here is my scenario...I'm navigating along a route which is on device and  for example I miss left a turn carrying on ahead a few hundred yards. The device warns me and asks to recalculate. If I accept does it recalculate getting me back on the route nearer my destination as opposed to rerouting me back to where I missed the turn?

What would really be helpful would be if someone could post a short video clip of how it's rerouting works.

Thanks.

Peter

  • 0 over 3 years ago in reply to krazyeone

    No.  One big route. 1600 km almost.  Every day I would just load the course. It would ask if I wanted to navigate to the beginning. I said no and it just found the course and continued. One day I went a different route and it did not try to find or recalculate as I was a ways off it. I just used the route on the screen to work my way back to it. Hit the route and it picked it up no issues.  Overall it worked fantastic. 

    One day I went off route and it gave me 2 choices to get back on route.  

    Not sure about nav settings. I can look into it. 

    I am very please with it. 

  • 0 over 3 years ago

    Just finished a 185km Route. 
    mid you leave route, you are asked if you want to pause navigation (awesome option if you just need the air pump of the gas station) or recalculate. If you don’t react, it will recalculate after an unknown amount of time (didnt take that much care). 
    the route back to the route didn’t insist on u-turns If not necessary. 
    For example: you did take the wrong way around a square. It will just go parallel to the route and around the next corner to rejoin the route. My Edge 830 always insisted on U Turns. 

  • 0 over 2 years ago

    In my experience so far with the Edge 1040, it does a better job of routing and re-routing than my old 830 and 1030+. Mine has gotten me back on the route ahead, rather than making me turn around and get back on at the point of departure.

    That being said, I find my Karoo 2 is still far better and faster than the Garmin at routing and re-routing. The display and maps are also sharper and more detailed than Garmin's. I tend to use my Garmin on group rides on my racing bike, where people know the route if I don't. When I'm on my own exploring or on my gravel bike and on tails, I take the Karoo 2.

    The Edge 1040 is, in my opinion, an improvement over previous Garmin head units.

  • 0 over 2 years ago

    I did my 1st route test on 1040 yesterday (done loads on 1030 so far from my 1st route ever!). All went fine. Near end I went off course and whilst it presented a few option buttons I ignored them. It quickly re-routed where 1030 often would spend ages telling me to turn round. Accidentally my "off-course" happened to be onto an earlier part of the already cycled route and it seemed to assume I was doing another lap (which seemed fair enough). Then after a few miles I turned round and again a few options I ignored and it quickly rerouted and gave directions to destination (which also happened to be back to my route.

    Only a single test but it worked without problems and I thought a lot better than my 1030.

  • 0 over 2 years ago

    Granted I "may" have done something wrong.  I downloaded a course and accidently picked the wrong road.  When I actually rode the course I realized I wanted the second right not the first ( the roads run parallel one gravel one paved, both intersect the same road at the end) What I feel should have happend was simple seemless re-route.  Instead I got a nasty c*nt of a head unit that just kept yelling at me that i'm off course... I got so annoyed I turned off the navagation.  I'm climbing a hill, want to see my data and instead beep you suck beep you suck beep you suck...or whatever the screen says... either way it was so fing annoying.

    So yea, I have been  trying to learn what I did wrong, because I have found that when something goes wrong I personally do not have the ability to continue to ride gravel with one hand and keep up with the group AND fiddle with screens and settings while I'm doing this.  It is NOT intuative unless you have been with garmin before.  I came from wahoo to karoo to here and am getting really close to just sending it back and living with my karoo

  • 0 over 2 years ago in reply to zivadaddy

    reading some of the other answers it appears there should have been on my screen some sort of option to reroute.  I DID have the big pause thing flashing my screen ...as I'm climing a steep section really wanting to see my heart rate....I did not see the "reroute" option but it could have been there, I was aggravated and not looking.  Like I said I need to learn this.  THE ONLY reason i'm playing with routes at all is to get the climber functionality...which...I do NOT need a route with the Karoo..climber just works all the time on that unit.