Mark R Penn Regular Visitor
Joined: 10/09/2002 17:13:17 Posts: 176 Location: United Kingdom
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Posted: Sun Sep 14, 2003 8:04 am Post subject: New to TomTom issues with vias&Postcodes |
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Navigator does not support vias, though I have to say I've never quite understood the point of them anyway - why not just plan your route to Leeds, and then once you have finished there, plan a new route to Manchester? If you use the Navigator screens "Navigate to" function rather than the route planner in the map screen, you don't have to set a departure point, it just plans from where you are now, or from your last known location if there is no fix.
However, lots of people want vias, so I'm obviously missing the point, and I think the GPS Assist add on adds a point to point function like you describe.
Re route planning, my copy nearly always finds a route using fast roads first. Make sure you have the route type set to "quickest" rather than "shortest". If you get a route you are not happy with, just tell it to calculate an alternative route, and it will try to avoid as much of it's original attempt as possible. Keep doing that 'till you get a route you like! Alternatively (and more logically in practise), set your destination, turn off navigation, drive the part of the route you know (you obviously do know it - you told us which route you want to take!), and then turn navigation on when you get to unfamiliar ground. TTN will then plan a route from there.
Post code searching does NOT work the way TomTom first advertised it, and describe it in the manual, for the UK. You have to enter the city and street manually, and then just use the post code suffix to make sure you don't choose the wrong road out of several with the same name. Quite honestly TTN2 does not deliver what was promised in this respect, but I've contacted them and they have no plans to do any better.
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