Garmin Routes

I like to program my own routes on my desktop and download them to the unit. If during a ride I miss a waypoint, the 2597 spends the rest of the trip telling me to turn around—even after I have passed subsequent waypoints! So the closer I get to my destination, the longer the estimated time to arrive, because the GPS simply insists that I must go back and hit Waypoint 3 when I've already passed Waypoints 8, 9, and 10. It's maddening.

 

Oooh I'll give that a try. Thanks!

 

When we travel we like to go via our choice of route so trying to get my head around WayPoints. In Basecamp I made a short 3 mile round route locally with WayPoints and uploaded to the Garmin...all fine so far. When travelling this route the Garmin kept announcing the house number of each property at each WayPoint which can get tiresome. Is this normal and if so can WayPoints be set so no announcements are given ?.
I assume if WayPoints are set directly on the Garmin it will still do announcements at each WayPoint ?.

Please move this question to another part of the forum if needed.

graham uk

 

Nuvi-Nebie. Your reply is appreciated. Yes, I will try your suggestion right clicking on the black points (Selecting Don't Anounce).
This is the benifit of a Forum to get info that does not appear to be available on Garmin.com

graham uk

 

Garmin Newbie. Attached photo of a test route loop made in Basecamp and sent to Garmin.
What do the BLUE circles indicate...and if selected they change to an FLAG.

Appreciate feedback. graham uk

 

Nuvi-Nebie. Your clear info is appreciated. Thank you for helping me to improve my Garmin learning curve.
This type of question should be added to (Frequently Asked Questions).
Good to see questions on this Forum answered within a short time...Well Done.

graham uk

 

I created a new route with multipoint routing. Unfortunately many of the points I selected automatically became blue flags because the program was able to identify them as street addresses or businesses. The properties dialogs for those waypoints offered no option to change them to simple black dots or to change the Alert on Arrival property. Sure enough I missed a waypoint along the way, and the program spent the rest of the ride telling me to do a U-turn, even after I passed through several other waypoints. In fact after I reached my destination the program was still telling me to go out again to reach the missed waypoint.

Happily I knew the area well enough that I could ignore the GPS and get to the subsequent waypoints and home.

Meanwhile I had been in 2D/north-up navigation mode during the ride but a couple of times wanted to get a larger view so hit the (-) symbol on the screen to zoom out. Several times my gloved finger missed the symbol and hit the map itself, sending the Nuvi into "aerial" mode, which would be fine except it's 3D, which is worse than useless when you're trying to get a sense of the wider area. Previous Garmin units always made the aerial view 2D, which is as it should be. I could find no setting to change the aerial view to 2D. Such a frustrating experience.

Never buying another Garmin!

 

Hello, I'm still coming up to speed on understanding how to generate a Route (with shaping points) within BaseCamp then importing that route as a Trip into my Trip Planner app for a DriveSmart 61 device. I first created a route within Google Maps, then created a . gpx file and finally imported it into BaseCamp. It is just a 13 mile Test Case route between two addresses.

BaesCamp created the following Track file from the imported ,gpx file:

The Track file contained 751 map points which is too many. I created a Route from the Track file with a map point every mile along the route:

This denotes 13 "via points". I don't know if these are "Way Points" or "Shaping Points" but it did create Route Directions shown in the following Step-by-Step Directions that does follow the original customized Google Map route.

Finally, I sent this BaseCamp Route to my DriveSmart 61 GPS and it created the following Trip within the Trip Planner app:

The Trip Planner trip contains the 13 map points in the BaseCamp route. I want to make sure that these 13 Blue Dots represent "Shaping Points" and NOT "Way Points" so I won't be FORCED to pass through every map point as I'm driving in case I need to periodically deviate from the original route when the GPS is re-plans the route back to the final destination.

If these Blue Dots are Way Points how could I convert them into Shaping Points within BaseCamp before sending the route to my device. Thanks for helping be better understand this whole creating a BaseCamp route and subsequent Trip Planner trip.

 

I like your method of creating a route between two Waypoint destinations directly with BaseCamp and adding any Shaping points, as necessary, to travel on any desired roads. This is a nice alternative to creating a route with Google Maps, creating the associated .gpx file then importing it into BaseCamp. It also eliminates any issues if there are any road differences between Google Maps and my installed Garmin Maps.
Thank You for your detailed and useful responses.