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| Kristian M Zoer... | 08-05-2010 |
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Thomas Paulsen wrote:
> Still you haven't answered the question which map you use.
Garmin north american street map.
> Thomas Paulsen wrote:
>> Still you haven't answered the question which map you use.
> Garmin north american street map.
City Navigator? Which year?
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Kristian Zoerhoff
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Kristian M Zoerhoff wrote:
>> Garmin north american street map.
>
> City Navigator? Which year?
> City Navigator? Which year?
CD says City Navigator, North America, 2010.
I can tell you that many of the roads that the GPS insisted I not take
had existed for far more than a couple of years (judging by age of homes
and condition of road).
Not only did those roads exist on the map display on the GPS, but the
GPS would insist I turn left/right at next intersection, or u-turn which
means that the GPS' routing software knew I was on a road with
intersections and all.
In the case of the early second day, I was traveling on county road 32
between Moreau and Mechanicville NY, and the GPS insisted I get off it
to make a detour to rejoin highway 4, when the CR 32 would join up with
highway 4 (and my route) in pretty much a straight line.
BTW, switching between "on road" and "off road" doesn't work when you
just ask it to recalculate the route. You need to stop navigation and go
to the route page and start navigation on the route.
"recalculate" seems to just look at the final point in your route and
discards all other waypoints in your route.
Thomas Paulsen wrote:
> Still you haven't answered the question which map you use. I am using
> only maps from OpenStreetMap, so I can't compare with the Garmin ones
> but here it is the same. At least for me, car-routing works better
> then bicycle-routing since I don't like using separate bicycle lanes,
> designated bicycle ways accompanying the street, let alone footways
> (not matter if bicycle allowed or not)
> only maps from OpenStreetMap, so I can't compare with the Garmin ones
> but here it is the same. At least for me, car-routing works better
> then bicycle-routing since I don't like using separate bicycle lanes,
> designated bicycle ways accompanying the street, let alone footways
> (not matter if bicycle allowed or not)
You might consider making your own routable Garmin OSM cycle maps
using the mkgmap program on raw OSM data files. Then you can
give your own weightings to the various "highway" types. You do
this in the style file called "lines":
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Mkgmap/help/Custom_styles
John
