Playing with itineraries

[HOG]

I have been to Bavaria three times now and alway go via Harwich ferry to The Hook of Holland and head south from there.

I just entered the route and it calculated the total journey as 810 miles via Folkestone, via M25 YOINKS!

However I am now trying to compare the route if going via Harwich using waypoints in the itinerary section, Harwich Ferry Road first, then Schliersee B307 next.

I can get it to calculate to Harwich ok, says 2 hours. But each time I try to calculate the second part it calculates from my home to Schliersee, not from Harwich.

This makes it very hard to work out which route is the better option, I want to find out have I been taking the long long long route all these years!

Any pointers? Me and the wife have been trying to suss this without much joy

[Snig]

I suspect you want to mark Harwich as a waypoint rather than a destination. That way it'll route through Harwich to get to Schliersee. Is that what you're after?

Regards,
Mark.

[MikeB]

One of the problems with travelling via Harwich is that TomTom knows that it takes 5-6 hours on the crossing and builds this in to the calculation. It wont assume that you will want a break from driving. Going through the Channel Tunnel will possibly work out to be a faster route using its weighting algorithms.

When I have been to that area of Germany I have always gone Dover-Calais. But then Harwich is a good 2 hours north from my place where Dover is 1.5 south.
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Mike Barrett

[HOG]

Thnx, I shall have to try the waypoint option rather than destination approach.

btw I take the fast ferry, takes 3.5 hours rather than the slug 7 hours of normal ferries :D

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