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Navigating past 'the same path'

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over 3 years ago

I'm about to find out (or possibly get lost!) - but does anyone know what happens in this scenario...

I have a Course that I've dropped CoursePoints into (using Plotaroute) and manually copied to 945 as usual so I get directions when I want them as opposed to the Garmin TBT directions (that I don't really like). This is all good and is what I always do and it works really well.

My question is - if you can imagine I have a CoursePoint at say 5k into a route that tells me to turn left....to send me off on a circuitous route that takes me round some distance and then I join back to an earlier bit of the same path, but then this time I need to run straight on where I'd previously turned left...will the watch be aware that I'm 8k into my route, so will ignore the "5k CoursePoint" as I run past its location this second time, or would it alert on every CoursePoint I pass on a route where I'm travelling multiple times along the same path, irrespective of "how far along the complete course" I am?


  • 0 over 3 years ago

    The watch do not know how far you've travelled on a course. Every time you start running on a course it will start to navigate you from that point no matter where on the course you start.

    If the route is planned so you got two lines on top of each other it will chose one of them. I think it will try to follow the route you are on and not switch. It will probably only switch if you first get off route and then it might choose the wrong one since it will not know which one you were on.

  • 0 over 3 years ago in reply to e7andy

    I don't think this is necessarily entirely correct.
    If you think about it, there are "ETA / ETE" fields which refer to the 'next' CoursePoint - that would be totally broken as a concept for any course that had laps or covering the same area multiple times.

    I think (or hope!) it possibly maintains 'how far along a course' you are, so only alerts the CoursePoints at the relevant distance along a repeated path...EXCEPT if you go off-course, then when you rejoin course I suppose it really has no way of knowing which distance you're at along the course, if there are multiple paths covering the same location (although it should maybe choose the path which is closest in distance to the distance you were at when you left the course, as thats probably most likely going to be the one you've wanted to rejoin).

    Should find out tonight anyway! I've created a Course with some of these kind of overlapping paths and directions that need to be different each time passing the same place.