Problem planning journey-TT5

crazydolu · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jul 12, 2005 Posts: 1

I was using tomtom3 earlier,and now I have moved to Tomtom 5.If I need to get an Idea of the distance to a certain place before actually starting the journey,with tomtom 3 I used to give the address and click home as the point of departure to calculate the distance(when GPS is not on).But in tomtom 5 it is not giving such an option at all.It just says "No GPS device".Am I missing some options or is Tomtom 5 programmed like that.
That was really a useful option in tomtom 3.
Also when going to alternate route,It is not showing options like avoid M1,or avoid a specific road.

drummer · Posted: Sun Jul 17, 2005 12:43 am Post subject:

If you select advance planning you can enter the departure point.

To avoid a part of the route: select alternative then avoid part of the route, you can then select from all citys and roads that your journey passes through. (a major advance from TT3 when you could only select the next 3 road names)

Robin2 · Posted: Sun Jul 17, 2005 9:59 am Post subject:

No, it's not an advance - with TT5 you can only have one waypoint in Advanced Planning. If you put in another, it over-writes the first.
And as crazydolu says, you can't use itinerary planning unless you are connected to a GPS and positioned at the beginning of the journey
It's listed under the collection of bugs compiled by Lutz
Robin
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drummer · Posted: Sun Jul 17, 2005 10:12 am Post subject:

crazydolu wasn't talking about itineray planning, only A to B planning, which I have working fine without a GPS fix.

The advance I was talking avout was the ability to avoid any roads on route and not just the next 3.

Robin2 · Posted: Sun Jul 17, 2005 12:43 pm Post subject:

The features mentioned , ie ability to use home as departure point in TT3, and message about no GPS device, both relate to Itinerary planning in TT3 and TT5 respectively. I therefore think crazydolu was deploring, as I do, the inability to plan itineraries when not connected to a GPS receiver.
When I need this feature, I revert to TT3
Robin
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TomTom Go 720 Europe, Navcore 8.351, Western Europe 855.2884
Satmap Active 10
Plus a lot of other PDA GPS kit, seldom used

TomTom-Paul · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jun 23, 2005 Posts: 20

I have tried this a few times over the several weeks and for periods of time it does not work, then for a while it did work.

I think that there could be a bug Rolling Eyes

that is stoping it working all the time, or for most of the time.

Has anyone else had it working sometimes.

Paul

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