Pre-programming routes TomTom or Garmin

MT01 · Occasional Visitor Joined: Nov 03, 2010 Posts: 1

Hi,

I'm taking my driving test in a few weeks and I wish to buy a satnav that will allow me to program several circular test routes that the examiner may take me on for practice and familiarisation. I heard that Tomtom have an itinerary planning facility that would allow me to plot routes via google maps (which would be very quick and easy for me to plot the 20 routes on my 27" monitor) and upload to the Tomtom. I was all set to buy a go live 1000 and read that it's full of bugs and no longer supports this feature.

Therefore I'd be grateful if anyone could let me know which are the most recent/high end Tomtoms or Garmins that support such a feature?

Also are there any other features or methods I could use to achieve the same results?

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PaulB2005 · Posted: Wed Nov 03, 2010 9:55 am Post subject:

Hi and welcome. I've edited the title and moved this to the Begineers GPS Forum. I've also removed the duplicate post in the Garmin forum as it's better to keep all the discussion in one place.

Andy_P · Posted: Wed Nov 03, 2010 12:14 pm Post subject:

Any of the TomTom "Go" models previous to the Go1000, will support itinerary planning.

Some of the "One" and "XL" models do, but not all.

The "Start" doesn't, AFAIK.

exportman · Posted: Wed Nov 03, 2010 9:02 pm Post subject:

Hi

I have found a piece of software called tyre a great help it uses google maps and can save in to formats accepted by most satnav systems

look at http://www.janboersma.nl/gett/index.php

PhilDot · Posted: Tue Nov 16, 2010 11:08 pm Post subject:

This site works great with TomTom itinerary planning:

http://www.houghi.org/tomtom/

gatorguy6996 · Posted: Wed Nov 17, 2010 3:26 am Post subject:

And any of the Garmin's that support multi-point routes can use Garmin's own solutions, either MapSource or BaseCamp. In fact BaseCamp (free) allows the use of the map that came with your Garmin, avoiding issues with roads or intersections in an online map not matching up with those same areas on your pnd's map. Of course if you wanted to use TYRE with a Garmin, you could. But no advantage over MapSource or BaseCamp that I can see.
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PhilDot · Posted: Wed Nov 17, 2010 10:24 pm Post subject:

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