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Complete disaster Edge 1040 road treatment on every main road in Spain (All territory afected)

      Finally, what seemed to be a local error on several roads near my house has converted in a complete disaster in the treatment of the main spanish roads by Garmin Edge1040 unit which understands that the majority of roads frequented by cyclists in Spain are not suitable for use on a bicycle. To facilitate the understanding of this disaster, I am attaching a photo with the main Spanish roads. These main Spanish roads are designated with a letter (N) followed by a number (XXX). In the photo this roads are the blue ones. Thousands of kilometers, as you can imagine.

All these N(XXX) roads appear in OSM Maps "not classified" for bicycle access. As you can see in the pic below

As anyone with a modicum of common sense can imagine, the problem that all Garmin 1040 series users are having is tremendous. Climb Pro (the super announced feature) does not work on any of these roads (thousands of kilometers). Navigation whenever one of these roads is involved becomes a nightmare and what is more serious, something very dangerous since  the Edge will only make beeps and illogical and/or dangerous routes avoiding this N(XXX) roads.

This is not a problem about the Garmin Maps, this is a problem about the way Edge 1040 interpret the classification of the N(XXX) roads. The classification in the map are good, Not classified for bicycles, it would not have to prohibit their use on a bicycle but due to some way or software error the device understands that they are prohibited for circulation on a bicycle

Finally, i attached a pic of one of this N roads N320 in this case as an example and a pic about strava segment as you all can see bicycle are accepted and are rode by thousand of users every year.

And finally (again) i ask someone at Garmin be sensitive to Spanish users who have been suffering from this big bug for months on a new (and expensive) unit without even someone at Garmin Spain realizing such a terrible mistake for any user. Or users from any country who visits Spain. I am open for anyone at Garmin Spain to contact me and help or explain anything that due to my poor use of English has not been clear. I demand a quick solution as well.

  • David, please check the settings in your activity profiles at:
    Navigation -> Routing -> Set up avoidance
    The “Major highways” option must not be activated there.
    Why ?
    The name is very misleading. All OSM-based routable maps have the attribute “WAY” for paths that can be traveled by bike. If the option is activated, routing will not take place on these paths!!
    Btw: The OSM classification for real highways is "highway=motorway" and this feature is not used at all in bike-optimized maps.

    Thanks for a feedback

    Servus peggatsch

    This text was described by Google Translate - The attributes may be different in Spanish

  • I have in this way. Hope this was the issue. I will turn off the first.

  • I deactivated the Major Highways and go out for a ride. The same behaviour. Climb pro not working on the N Roads. When i left the N road, all perfect. I will put a pics with the todays route.

  • Ohlala David, I completely misunderstood you. What I said refers exclusively to routing/rerouting.
    The only thing that comes to mind about ClimbPro on national-roads (N-xxx) is that you could check whether the settings for ClimbPro are correct:
    Activity Profile - Climbs
    Rise detection - all rises
    Mode - Always
    Terrain Type - Various (or Paved if you want)

    Servus peggatsch

  • Yeah, my configuration about climb pro is as you wrote. Yesterday with the map you suggested me, climb pro was fine. Today not working. Tomorrow I will check navigation and routing. About climb pro must be a problem about the map. With the other map, all is all right. 

    A friend of mine in other Spain region tell me that works in N320. I look forward and in this N road, the classifies is listed as "Yes" for bicycles. I continue thinking that if the road is not classified as "yes" the 1040 software understand that Bicycle are not permitted

  • David admitted, ClimbPro is a touchy ***. On my home route, I sometimes see five out of five climbs, other days it's only three out of five. I haven't figured out why yet (poor GPS reception?)

    Btw: Your picture is not suitable for my eyes, I see almost nothing

  • this is the image where i noticed that some N roads are classified as "yes" and others are classified as "not classified". In the not classified, climb pro does not work. This is the N340, one of the "yes" classified