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Skip a waypoint while navigating a course

2571168
over 3 years ago

Hi!

A question: sometimes a pre defined route contains an 'impossible' waypoint (e.g. blocked route, middle of a field etc.). It seems to be very difficult to tell the Edge 530 that it should skip this waypoint and focus on the next one instead.

Is this even possible?

And if not, would this not be a very simple and usefull feature?

Thanks,

Koen

  • 0 over 3 years ago

    What should it do when you skip a waypoint?

    The devices don't navigate by waypoint anyway.

    They follow a track.

    When I need to take a detour, I just go off course and use the map. Doing that is easier if you can pan and zoom the map.

    I would think the 530 has some ability to handle rerouting when going off course.

    The 1030+ does. The 1030 does but it doesn't work quite as well as the 1030+ does.

  • 0 over 3 years ago in reply to dpawlyk

    Hi;

    I'd loaded a Komoot route, that was why I thought it was focussing on a waypoint, which was in de middle of a field (which looked like a road on Komoot). The track passed trough the field - as there were no other entry points, that might be the reason why the navigation device kept redirecting me to the start of the field. 

  • 0 over 3 years ago in reply to 2571168

    At least, would be useful to indicate to navigate to next section of the course

  • +1 over 3 years ago in reply to 2571168

    1- The Garmins use roads/paths on the map installed on the device for "turn guidance" (the big white arrows). I'm guessing there is no path on the map on the field. One question is why the route goes through the field. Komoot might use things like waypoints (the Edges do not with loaded routes*).

    2- there are no "sections" in the route/track. On some of the Garmins (maybe, the 530 too), you can pan and zoom the map and drop a pin. You can then ask the device to calculate a route to there. You could drop a pin on the loaded track to skip a part of a route.

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    * Tracks can have things called "course points", which are sort of like waypoints but you can't navigate to them. They are only used for display. They are an alternative to "turn guidance" for providing turn instructions (mostly, for units that don't use maps).

  • 0 over 3 years ago

    Hi, I have exactly the same problem regardless if it is a Komoot/Strava planned route or one planned in Garmin courses. Current Edge 530 behaviour is maybe good for races where one needs to follow exactly the route/track. But in everyday use it would be nice to be able to control Edge's behaviour and be able to change it to ie. reroute with the shortest route or reroute to the nxt waypoint/course point. What really annoys me is that it will not direct You further unless you choose to come to Garmin's chosen waypoint ... Any ideas to that?

  • 0 over 3 years ago in reply to yareckey

    Routes are the same regardless of where they come from (Komoot, Strava, Connect, etc).

    Your only options are to drop a pin where you want to go (not sure how to do that on the 530) or just follow the roads on the map to get there.

    (I said this 16 days ago. Things haven't changed since then.)

  • 0 over 3 years ago in reply to dpawlyk

    Well looks like I was misunderstood :) 

    I don't want do be forced to do anything what I would like Edge to do is to reroute me back on my original track in the shortest possible way. What it does now is more less that it forces me to get back to the point on the track where I left it or its last waypoint. If I won't do it Edge will actually stop navigating and only focus on coming back to that point. And YES unfortunately nothing has changed for the last 16 days...

  • 0 over 3 years ago in reply to yareckey
    yareckey said:
    what I would like Edge to do is to reroute me back on my original track in the shortest possible way

    It doesn't let you do that. It might if you go far enough.

    yareckey said:
    And YES unfortunately nothing has changed for the last 16 days...

    It's likely it won't change for many future 16 days.

  • 0 over 2 years ago in reply to dpawlyk

    Did you manage to find a way? I just bought Edge 530 and discovered this rather unpleasant "feature" - I thought this would be a no brainer for a navigation app that can find routes (because it does), but somehow it seems to not be possible to get back on track using different route - today it would route me back 5km from where I was, because that was what it thought I need to be, while I was already on the way back, on that very track, just later part of it. I just had to ignore the navigation completely and use the map, which is really silly for a GPS so expensive. Komoot on my mobile does that perfectly...

  • 0 over 2 years ago in reply to noizex

    My thoughts are with You ;) Looks like it is a too big a challenge for Garmin...