When I pre-plan a route and then follow it in navigation mode during a running or walking or hiking activity, the problem is that my Forerunner is not giving any "turn signals" unless the turn is really sharp, like 90° left/right or so.
So e.g. if I arrive at a Y-shape cross-sections and the pre-planned route turns e.g. 45° to the right into a side-road (instead of following the main road straight ahead), I won't get any turn signal and will miss the turn.
I am wondering: When creating the route, is there a possibility to label or tag certain way points with a property that telles the Garmin watch "here you have to give a turn signal, even if the turn is not very sharp".
The whole problem occurs because the Garmin Forerunner apparently is not aware of streets in navigation mode, although it displays the street as a map on the watch's display. But logically, this only seems to be pixel graphics that the watch is not associating with the route to be followed. This is why in the given example situation it does not give a turn signal. It jsut doesn't know that there is an Y-shape crossing and that the person (me) should be directed in one direction via alarm to walk/run the right way.
Of course, if there was a possibility to make the Garmin aware of the streets/ways and generates a turn signal more frequently during route navigation, where necessary, this would be great.
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Update: Meanwhile I realized that there *is* an option to tell Garmin to guide me along the streets of the map material, i.e. put the route onto the street net, so to say. However, this comes with many other deficiencies and is therefore not a viable option:. Deficiencies of this mode are:
- Forerunner does not warn me if I miss a turn and deviate from the route. Instead, to make things even worse, it "invents" a new route that is very far away from the pre-planned route (relaly with no relation to the pre-planned route) and wants to lead me along that route, not even warnign me that this is not my original route.
- If I missed a turn and then realize it 300 m later and walk back to the pre-planned route, the Forerunner still does not realize that I am "back on track" and wants to guide me in random completely implausible directions - absolutely crazy.
- Often, althouth I am Navigating right along the pre-planned route, the Forerunner suddenly deviates from this route without any reason! Often, I should turn left or right into a street, according to the pre-planned route, but the Forerunner wants we to go straight ahead. This defies the whole purpose of navigating along a pre-planned route.
Bottom line: The navigation along a pre-planned route in combination with a map match mode is completely unusable. (unfortunately, the mode without the map match is also unusable, just for other reasons.)
