Garmin 550

I hate the way Garmin have their preferences. I use my sat nav in a Car
and on
a Motorcycle. When on the Motorcycle I usually want to go the
most scenic route
- no option for that you just have to figure the most
scenic route yourself by
using POI's or looking on the map before your
trip.
Say I wanted to get from Point A to Point B in a Car if you pick
shortest
distance it can take you through all sorts of small roads etc
so you think that
fastest time would be the best option. "Well no"
because when you pick fastest
time it too can take you all the back
roads etc. The reason being, it looks at
the speed limit of the roads
and calculates it from that. Now you and I know
that the National
Speed limit is 60mph but some of these roads you would be
lucky to get
up to 30mph because of the twists and bumps etc. The only way to
fool
the system is set the Preferences in your sat nav for all roads to be
the
same speed limit then set the preference closer to Prefer Highways
this way you
will get to be directed onto roads that are reasonably
good. I have a
motorcycle for touring so I reverse the preferences to
prefer minor roads as I
like to sight see.
However my point is that there is little choice for the type of roads.
I would
like it to show in preferences = Motorways 0-100% - A roads
0-100% - B roads
0-100% etc that way you could set the sat nav up to
accommodate.
Before sat nav I used autoroute express and it was fantastic it also
had a
scenic route option which I used many times for the motorcycle
and it did take
you places that were very nice. I think Garmin need to
think again. Not sure
if other sat nav's are the same maybe you could
tell me.




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TheOwl1