Hi,
So yesterday I had a minor confusing issue with navigation during a course and I was wondering what was the proper way of handling this... To explain briefly:
I went for a ride, following a course I had generated on the Garmin Connect web app and I was using turn by turn navigation. At some point I took a break and wanted to refill my bottle. So I
- paused the activity recording
- went to home page
- opened navigation from the navigation widget
- searched for water refills foutains (POI) using the category search
- started navigation to the nearest result from the list
However at that point I realised two things : 1) I could tell from the map that the POI I selected was just a gardening water faucet from the nearby graveyard and as such, there was a chance I would not be able to refill there (sometimes these small graveyards are closed or the water faucet is inaccessible). 2) I hadn't noticed I was litterally standing right next to a public bathroom that wasn't listed on the water refill search list from the device. Therefore I didn't need to go to navigate to the graveyard anymore.
That's when I started having issues and got confused.
I was unable to find a clean way to stop navigation to the POI and resume navigation for my course. I tried skipping it entirely and even got the "course detected" notification but navigation just brought me straight back to the village (in hindsight that was obvious, I don't know why I thought it would work). The only button I had from the screen tap menu was "pause navigation" but that didn't seem to do anything nor did it sound like what I wanted to do (i.e stop navigation to the water faucet, not just pause it). Then I followed navigation to the graveyard so that it would clear the destination but it was indeed closed and couldn't get close enough to the POI for it to count.
As last resort I just stopped all ongoing navigation using a "stop course" button. It stopped navigation for the graveyard and it also removed the my course's track from the map. Luckily I was able to start my course again, selected No when asked if I wanted it to guide my to the start location and it actually picked up my course from where I was and so I could resume recording my activity.
So that felt both confusing and frustrating and left me thinking I missed something, hence this question : Is there a graceful way (e.g other than quitting everything) to handle adding / canceling navigation to a POI during course navigation ?
Cheers,