i3 Routing

BERT_UK · Occasional Visitor Joined: Sep 15, 2005 Posts: 45

[quote="gcb"] With a touch screen unit you can pan out and examine a route before you start. [quote]

The i3 lets you review your route as well :D

1) Use the scroll wheel to pan the map in and out

2) There's an option to review your turns before making the journey

MaFt · Posted: Fri Nov 18, 2005 2:45 pm Post subject:

[quote="BERT_UK"][quote="gcb"] With a touch screen unit you can pan out and examine a route before you start.

ps73uk · Regular Visitor Joined: Jun 15, 2005 Posts: 116

To be honest i have decided i'm probably going to return my i3, some of the weird and wonderful routes it has tried to send me are at best beyond a joke, like the other day when it decided to get me home via Birmingham city centre instead of simply continuing to follow the M6 that i was already on and then going onto the M5 and off at junction 2 (like tomtom and medion do, and i would if reading a map!).

I had time to kill so i thought i would go along with the Garmin and see just exactly where it wanted to take me, as it routed me off the M6 motorway and onto the local A/B roads it added about 30 mins to my journey time. 8O

The Garmin strikes me as a good starter unit, but for an experienced user i dont think you can beat tomtom or medion/navigon. Looks like i'm going back to using my pocket pc.
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NoLCD · Posted: Fri Nov 18, 2005 3:23 pm Post subject:

Sticking up for the i3, its small (the amount of wires and aerials and cradles that I see in cars mean you need GPS as the windscreen is obscured Wink

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and its pretty cheap. As posted elsewhere its only as good as the map data.
In my case it beats an old Garmin GPS40 with no screen plugged into a laptop running Fugawi!
But you get what you pay for and the man at Comet wanted me to get a Tomtom he also was keen for me to pay £45 cover and to get Sky etc...
I am travelling 500 miles over the next week so opinion may change.

PS Is the verdict on 2.70 still bad?

gcb · Regular Visitor Joined: Oct 24, 2005 Posts: 151

In theory you can review your turns but in practice you cant.

Example as follows.

Set route and review it.

2 miles into journey ignore the Garmin to get out of traffic.

Garmin Does a recalculating when I ignored it.

5 miles later I am back on the route I reviewed earlier.

5 miles later where I was expecting to switch roads, I switch roads but not onto the one I expected.

Arrggh , when The Garmin recalculated my route, it said , OK, you want to avoid that town centre do you. Dont worry I found another one 10 miles down the raod, Im sure you'll enjoy joining thier 5:30 pm jam when your dying for a p**s and expected to be cruising down the motorway. Serve you right you B***rd for ignoring me before, hope you p**s your self! YOU don't think I know where Im going do you, I'll show you , Ill show you , I got every town in this piddly little place you call a country mapped out, get it , you see, do you .........

Review turns , notice something you can improve upon and change route, Garmin recalculates you are back

NoLCD · Posted: Fri Nov 18, 2005 3:40 pm Post subject:

As you said praps best you take it back to shop...

I admit I was curious as I went under Heathrow yesterday and wondered how she new were I was going, as described it must just 'coast' until signal restablished. Anyway shame you are not getting along with it.

BERT_UK · Occasional Visitor Joined: Sep 15, 2005 Posts: 45

BERT_UK · Occasional Visitor Joined: Sep 15, 2005 Posts: 45

Skippy · Posted: Fri Nov 18, 2005 6:29 pm Post subject:

Skippy · Posted: Fri Nov 18, 2005 6:38 pm Post subject:

gcb · Regular Visitor Joined: Oct 24, 2005 Posts: 151

I wanted to go by J33 but what ever I did the unit seemed to send me back into Cardiff? I tried shortest and quickest. I was right up almost at J33 and found I had been switched oonto A48 and ended up giving up and just following A48 th A48(M)
A48(M) I was about to join M4 and was told to pull Off, confused I panned out but it was still showing A48(m) to M4, Think it balled up the Junction and wanted me to go down onto roundabout to go back up other side onto M4 when there was probably a filter lane. As went down to roundabout ended up in wrong lane (partly my fault) was rally busy realy jammed up, Had to turn left when I didnt want to , RECALCULATING, wanted to turn around couldn't, I3 helped me by changing route entirely and by sending me through the centre on Newport , down some very narrow rat races, one way streets and a snarl up outside the railway station.

Skippy · Posted: Fri Nov 18, 2005 7:51 pm Post subject:

London_i3_Newbie · Regular Visitor Joined: Oct 18, 2005 Posts: 65

firstly if your a map reading know it all smart arse whats the point of owning a sat-nav?

secondly has everyone made sure they have selected between fastest/shortest and havent got any ticks in avoidances (e.g. highways/toll roads etc)?

There seems to be alot of talk about the Garmin being useless at navigating in the forum at the moment?

Clearly it wont know if the M25 is rammed in rush hour or a lorry has overturned in front of you.

So is the mapping ability of the i3 flawed and does it really choose insanely outlandish routes regularly/sometimes or is it a decent unit? Wink

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blackrat62 · Occasional Visitor Joined: Sep 08, 2005 Posts: 47

I have to admit that my i3 comes up with some odd route choices (set to fastest and the only avoidance is unmade roads at the moment) - I can rarely get it to match any route planner whatever settings I try.

But I am delighted with it and the routes rarely adds significant time to what I would consider the optimum.

That said, (and yes I know it cannot detect congestion) it does seem to have an uncanny ability to pick the most congested routes. I tend to change between quickest and shortest depending on the nature of journey.

The only significant routing fault I find with it is the 'detour' funtion - useless. An example: on M3 towards M25 (next exit) I tried detour, it took me off at the M25, to the next junction where it routed me back to the same junction I left at????

To apply logic here - I asked to detour so the 'blockage' must be after the next junction: if it is before the next junction then there is no detour on a motorway. So by taking me off then back to the same junction at which I was told to exit it doesn't actually avoid you using any of the original route - thats NOT a detour!

MaFt · Posted: Sat Nov 19, 2005 6:25 pm Post subject:

the detour option works great on normal roads. not tried it on a motorway though...

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