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crazyhazy
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 Posted: Wed Nov 26, 2008 10:54 pm Post subject: Another bug perhaps? |
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When planning the route home from work yesterday I came across one that's never happened before. I planned fastest route, but via a small village to avoid roadworks. I checked the route and it didn't go through the village, I browsed the map, found the village and the flag was there to indicate a way point, but the route didn't pass it!
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Andy_P
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| Posted: Thu Nov 27, 2008 12:39 am Post subject: |
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Not a new bug, it's been around as long as I've had TomToms...
If you plan a route "via" a town centre, it goes vaguely close, but will skirt round the town using a bypass if it can. |
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crazyhazy
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| Posted: Thu Nov 27, 2008 12:48 am Post subject: |
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Its probably common knowledge by now but I found making the town centre a favourite and going via that did the trick.
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Oldboy
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| Posted: Thu Nov 27, 2008 7:52 am Post subject: |
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| Andy_P wrote: | Not a new bug, it's been around as long as I've had TomToms...
If you plan a route "via" a town centre, it goes vaguely close, but will skirt round the town using a bypass if it can. |
I've not seen that if you set it as a Waypoint (flag on map).
The only requirement is that it has to be placed on a point it can navigate to. Was it located off-road? or too close to the main route?
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DennisN
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| Posted: Thu Nov 27, 2008 8:58 am Post subject: |
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I have found the same as Andy - I frequently use Travel Via instead of Avoid, simply because Avoid sometimes takes some effort to get it to set the route I want. So travelling from Exeter to Bath I want the scenic route and instruct Travel Via Yeovil, but it never takes me into that town, just on the A303 bypass, which actually is exactly what I want.
A year or so ago, I did a delivery in Bedford and decided for old time's sake to come back via the village where I lived 45 years ago. The local roads had long since disappeared into the mists of Alzheimers, so I never realised until way too late that I hadn't gone much closer than a mile!
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