Navigation and roundabout

Is there a way of telling the unit not to do this ?

meltonboy said:

Is there a way of telling the unit not to do this

Not giving spurious turn instructions while the white arrow is straight on?  That is a glitch in Garmin's software. Pester Garmin for a fix.

Avoiding paths? No.  These will often direct you onto paths when road cycling.  The only way to stop this I have found is to remove the paths from the map.  Then the device can't use them.  I make my own maps and remove paths that bikes are not allowed to use when making the maps.  If I come across a path that bikes should be on still in the map while cycling I will edit the path in OSM to put a bicycle restriction in so next time I update my maps the path is gone.  Note that these unbits ignore bicycle restrictions so if a path is marked as forbidden to bicycles the units can still try and navigate you along it.  Who knows why.

I don't strip out cycle paths so if there is a cycle path parallel to a road and the unit tries to navigate me along it I just have to deal with it.

Thanks. If i want to route along a bike path (like a UK cycle superhighway) i will deliberately click on it when doing a strava route, otherwise in London i avoid them as they are slow and often full of folks standing in them.

I do get that there's no "one size fits all" approach here and having more customisation options for the user takes time and money by Garmin. For me it's only very occasionally that I'm riding a part of a city that i don't know but then it's a PITA and genuinely confusing.

MB

Attila said:

If it is set to "Road Cycling" then it will be in sort of a permissive city riding mode, where it ignores the direction of one way streets for example. I think this is a pretty horrible decision from the creators of the map, and this bit me in the bottom twice, as when I switched back to the maps I created (or from other sites) then it was trying to bring me on highways.

That decision was made (a long time ago) to make the maps more useful on older units that just had one cycling option.

Some people (especially in Europe) wanted a "cyclotouring" mode that didn't prefer roads. Other cyclists wanted more road-oriented routing. Using the automobile option allowed for both.

Wongataa said:

I have just tried setting the routing mode to automobile driving and the issue is fixed.  It seems that in road cycling navigation mode it ignores motorways so can't count motorway exits from roundabouts where as it should not route down motorways but acknowledge their existence to correctly count junction exits.

One way of preventing certain classes of roads from being used is to remove them from the routing network.

These maps have data used for drawing stuff (the stuff you see on the screen) and separate data for the routing network (the "web" of interconnected roads/paths used for routing). A road can be in one set of data and not the other.

Hi, hoping you can help. I’ve downloaded open source routable maps for Eng&Wales bit does not show up in the map section in an activity profile. The file is then when searched via MS Edge.... any thoughts? Edge 530

You put it in the "Garmin" folder rather than "new files" ?

Make sure the map IMG file is in the \Garmin folder and that you have enabled the map in the map settings for the relevant profile and disabled any other routeable maps that cover the same area.

Meanwhile, i went out on saturday and had a mixture of - fully clear roundabout images, super zoom confusion, super zoom but with multiple arrows (less confusing) and i even had a super zoom that flipped into a clear roundabout image whilst i was on the roundabout. This still isn't great, but manageable. I do think that the super zoom bug is more of an issue to confuse navigation than the "Garmin maps not recognising all roundabouts" bug. But, that's just a hunch,

MB

If the superzoom didn't happen navigation glitches would definitely be less of an issue.  When you can see the whole junction and where you go exiting the junction at a glance the navigation text is less important.It is still best to get both right though as it was on earlier units so I know it is possible.