No Route Found Issue....

[Fraserp]

Planned a route accross europe using Major Roads of Europe and from that set up an itinary representing key stops. That worked fine.

I have since attempted to use the Deutschland Map and germany itinerary elements to get an improved detail on the route POIs etc. but it reports 'No Route Found'.

How can this be the case if it still works on Major roads of Europe?

I hope i'm doing something daft and it's not a real problem!
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Fraserp
TomTom 1000
GPSmap 60CSx
SatMap

[Fraserp]

I have been through every 'Drive By' along the route I set in the itinery. I may have found a few things.

1) I'd attempted to set up a single Itinerary for the whole journey, and use the local are maps to find services \petrol off the main route.
This doesnt appear to work, unless i'm doing something wrong. I have now reverted to one per country and i'll switch on route.

2) Found a start point from a previous attempt was still set part way into the route. Even though I had set the first Driveby as the start, it mustn't have updated. I removed this and set it at the Belguim \ Germany border.

3) One of the Drive By's was set on the wrong carriageway.

4) I'd used a 'Rest Stops' symbol location as a drive by, one appeared to be located off the motorway (but it isnt, I have been there before) so I moved the DB to the slip road.

I now get a route calculated and displayed but only after No 4) was amended.

Bear in mind that the route worked on Major Roads of Europe. It appears that routes planned using itinerarys on MRE are not directly transferable.
It would be great if 'breaks' in the route were displayed i.e. driveby 3 and driveby 4 dont link.

Anyone out there got experience of routes that cross map borders?
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Fraserp
TomTom 1000
GPSmap 60CSx
SatMap

[SteveW]

I have set up an Itinerary across Europe using MRE. If I load this Itinerary when in the Swiss map it automatically greys out the Driveby's in France etc and calculates the route over that part in Switzerland.

You need to be very careful in locating the drivebys, as you have probably found, but with the greater detail in the Germany map over the MRE map, I cannot see why you are having problems. I would understand if it was the other way round, and you were trying to load Drivebys set up in the German map into MRE, s there is far less detail and many roads do not exist..... You are using drivebys and not multiple destinations?

Steve

[Fraserp]

Its definately the DriveBys causing the problems. I had set drivebys at various Rest Areas. TT3 seems to get confused at the Belgian \ German border. If I take out the DriveBys near the border it works!

Trying the single itineray method (with rest area drivebys) produces this:-

BTW, the route starts in Calais port ends on the German Czech border on the B303 \ E48. 571 miles

Doing it that way, the route displays in MRE. If I switch maps:-
1) to France. Route displays to Belgian border
2) to Benelux. Route displays to German border
3) to Germany. route does not display, it only shows driveby location numbers.

The only other way to get the DriveBys, that I need included, has been to use Multiple destination for each country. But that just complicates the use on route. Keeping it simple works but doesnt allow me to easily ID the next rest area on route.

Hay ho.....
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Fraserp
TomTom 1000
GPSmap 60CSx
SatMap

[Fraserp]

TomTom's response to the same question..... (someone must be working on Saturday!)

[SteveW]

I use Via Michelin and plan the border crossings that way. I do not like using MRE anyway after getting lost a couple of times in France this year due to deviations taking me off the Major route. You end up going across a blank space!!

I now switch maps

Steve

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