Garmin hates flyovers & underpasses

HellFire · Regular Visitor Joined: Jul 25, 2004 Posts: 126

On nearly every roundabout where there’s a flyover or underpass which is shown on the map, my 3790 always wants to route me round the roundabout instead of going over the flyover. I think this is strange since taking the flyover is obviously quicker but Garmin wants the slower route. Since I’ve had the 3790 it has done this, through every update and map version.

Does this happened to anyone else?

Wazza_G · Posted: Sat Apr 30, 2011 2:05 pm Post subject:

Nope!

I just have it when I leave home & want a destination to the East of me, it sends me right out of our road to a lane ½ mile away to do a U-turn to go left. I do the sensible thing & just ignore it and do a left turn which is perfectly legal. Rolling Eyes

What I think throws it, is there's a traffic island, which you must keep left of when leaving our road & when they did the programming, they must have made the map data say you must go right all of the time, rather than keep right then turn left!
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Andy_P · Posted: Sat Apr 30, 2011 4:04 pm Post subject:

Shame Garmin don't have TomTom's Mapshare... you could have corrected it yourself... Smile

Wazza_G · Posted: Sat Apr 30, 2011 5:55 pm Post subject:

As you know Andy, I've got a TomTom, a 920T which is currently sitting in the dining room cupboard unused because the mapping is so damned dire.

Garmin's isn't perfect, but it's better than TomTom's rubbish & to say the least puerile efforts. At least both Garmin's we have here 3760 & 3790T are both spot on so far & they haven't told me I'm driving along a railway line, when in Somerset or tried to get me to turn on to one, like the TomTom did.

At least when I update the maps on the Garmin, they fit completely, not like TomToms zoning! Twisted Evil

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Kremmen · Posted: Sun May 01, 2011 6:36 am Post subject:

What type of routing are you using, Fastest, Shortest, etc ?
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Wazza_G · Posted: Sun May 01, 2011 9:42 am Post subject:

Tried both the results are the same, it tells me to turn right do the ½ mile trip & return Eastwards.

Occasionally, it will take me across the hills to the A3 to go to Reigate, when I can just use the A25. Bizarre!
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BigPerk · Posted: Sun May 01, 2011 12:24 pm Post subject:

wongataa · Occasional Visitor Joined: Mar 31, 2010 Posts: 7

I have had this a few times on my 255W. It's only at certain junctions though. It was rather annoying at one where I didn't realise it was happening until too late and I got caught in traffic.

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