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General Category => The Knowledge => GPS => Topic started by: Ningishzidda on 20 December, 2014, 11:59:49 am

Title: Chrissie pressie
Post by: Ningishzidda on 20 December, 2014, 11:59:49 am: Garmin GPSMAP 62s with 1:50k GB Discoverer for £230
Title: Re: Chrissie pressie
Post by: Ningishzidda on 21 December, 2014, 06:57:54 am: At last.
Garmin that plots a sensible route.

Not perfect though.

Jag Whitley to home TomTom, 14.6 miles using Daventry Road and Spencer Avenue in S Coventry.
Garmin, 15.2 miles using Cycle Paths through the centre of Coventry and the B4101.
Title: Re: Chrissie pressie
Post by: Gattopardo on 21 December, 2014, 08:36:37 am: Do you work at whitley?
Title: Re: Chrissie pressie
Post by: Ningishzidda on 22 December, 2014, 08:17:34 am: All’s well and better than expected.
Basecamp behaving itself. Copy a GPX into the GPX folder on the SD card, chop it, trim it, change its name and its on the SD card to be used.

Sweet as a nut.

Yes, I will be in the restaurant in 15 minutes.
Title: Re: Chrissie pressie
Post by: Ningishzidda on 23 December, 2014, 07:34:07 am: After a mental wrestle with myself, I took the Garmin back and got a refund.

My logic.
After going through numerous combinations of settings, I ask the Garmin to plot a route between work and home with the unit switched to 'Cycling' and 'Optimise by distance'. It produces a route of 15.2 miles. The shortest of any combination.
With the TomTom adjusted to 'By Bicycle' and 'Prefer minor roads', I ask the TomTom to plot the same route from work to home and it produces a route of 14.6 miles.

Why would I want a device which cannot give me the shortest route?
Title: Re: Chrissie pressie
Post by: Ningishzidda on 24 December, 2014, 09:36:48 am: Now I've got two cycle mounts for it.

Make me an offer.
Title: Re: Chrissie pressie
Post by: Manotea on 25 December, 2014, 11:15:32 pm: I've gone 'back to the future' with an eTrex Vista HCx from eBay for £65 to replace my Vista Cx which had decided to stop reading the SD Card.