![]() The GPS doesn't have this knowledge and reroutes me down a road I don't want, just like you explain. Some major roads are better at moving traffic along than others too. I often prefer a smaller road with stop signs and fewer traffic for instance, rather than a major road with traffic lights. The simplest answer is (similar to what you explain), is that I wanted that route because I had done my research ahead of time and knew it was better than a route the GPS would select for me. Garmin personnel couldn't understand why I would not want the GPS to recalculate since it would always give me the fastest or shortest route during the recalculation. In late 2015 and early 2016 I expressed my disappointment to Garmin about removing this feature. Unfortunately, the GPS's now days no longer have a setting to override it recalculating the route if you get off the route like my old one did. It was definitely a change at first, but i finally got used to it, and as a whole, it is better. When I bought a new Garmin GPS in 2015 I now had to use BaseCamp instead of MapSource. The destination time (or in those days the amount of time until I reached my destination) always recalculated as best it could to indicate when I would reach the next point or the final destination, even while I was off route. In those days, a shaping point and a via point (waypoint) were basically the same thing. I believe this is the same type of thing that you are talking about. When i got back onto it again, the GPS would continue to give me directions as if I had never gotten off the route. I could then see where the route was and could get back onto it as I originally programmed it. This kept the original route on the GPS and did not change it, no matter how far off the route i was. I almost always responded NO to that question. When I had to take a detour or missed a turn for some reason, the GPS told me I was off route and asked me if it could recalculate. That GPS lasted me until 2015 believe it or not, and i always used MapSource to create my routes, then uploaded them to the GPS. The 3 options were, Always Recalculate, Never Recalculate, and Ask to Recalculate. My original GPS from 2001 allowed me to have 3 settings for how to re-route on the GPS when you went off route (or missed a waypoint along the way). I've had this same problem for years, and I've had a Garmin GPS since 2001. I like Garmin products and have several but this monster is trying to be too much to too many. I want to drive my route not a trip or a route that DS thinks is best. It is very frustrating to have DS keep trying to get me back to some missed point for the next 15 or so miles after missing the sacred via point. Maybe my problem is that I'm trying to use my DS as a data display for my route. Is that correct?Īll that being said, should I be using shaping points to get the desired behavior out of DS? So how do you define shaping points in BC? Is there a way to redefine a via point as a shaping point when defining a route in BC? I use via points to give time and distance while driving, my understanding is that a shaping point will not display on the screen giving you the same data. In my opinion, thinking that routes are either shortest or fastest was a very bad assumption made by Garmin.Īnother related issue is that no matter what route I map in BC and download to DS when I initialize the route to start the journey the DS goes through a recalculation and I have been surprised at times that the DS has changed my preferred route especially if the end of my route goes through a major city. My routes are typically a mixture of shortest and fastest segments simply because not every trip is covered by interstate highways or short distances. Doesn't matter if the BC and DS are set to "fastest" or "shortest". I have put the beginning and end points in only to have BC place run the route through undesired roads or areas. So what do you suggest? Sometimes those via points have to be inserted in BC in order to get the route I want. It is as if DS is treating my route as a trip and I don't travel by trips. No interaction with the unit was necessary. If memory serves, the GPS units I've owned prior to about 2010 would simply ignore any missed point in a route and recalculate to the next. Having said that I shouldn't have to interact with the DS unit if I, through no fault of my own, miss a via point. Now back to DS I note that you're very happy with it, your satisfaction with it in no way lessens the frustration I have with mine. BC is a dog compared to MapSource and it is not very intuitive for me as I only use it maybe 2 or 3 times a year. My comment about BC was not related to the problem I am experiencing with DS.
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