GPS - City Navigation w/ Garmin Etrex Legend Cx?

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City Navigation w/ Garmin Etrex Legend Cx?

ben99s@gmail.com

2007-02-22, 3:33 pm

I bought an Etrex Legend Cx last week on the recommendation of many
people. I like the unit except for one problem.....Navigation.

It works great on the highway, but not so much on normal roads.
Whenever i try navigating in the city it just tells me to "Go
<direction> to interstate whatever", then arrive at destination.

I have the city maps loaded and it can see what street i'm on and what
streets are coming up. I have tried reloading the maps, still no
luck.

I'm hoping I just have something setup incorrectly. Any help is
appreciated. Going to try using this for geocaching once i do some
research.

Thanks!

Ben.

Jack Erbes

2007-02-22, 10:33 pm

ben99s@gmail.com wrote:
> I bought an Etrex Legend Cx last week on the recommendation of many
> people. I like the unit except for one problem.....Navigation.
>
>
> It works great on the highway, but not so much on normal roads.
> Whenever i try navigating in the city it just tells me to "Go
> <direction> to interstate whatever", then arrive at destination.

Are you in the Follow Road mode and using autorouting maps?

If you are, when it calculates your routes the magenta line marking the
route will follow the curves and turns of the road vectors as they are
drawn on the map.

Is it offering you a choice of Follow Roads or Off Road routing when you
activate a route? If not, you may be using the Off Road mode as the
default choice.

If you are in the Off Road mode the route legs will be shown as a direct
line from where you are to the destination or next waypoint, it won't
follow the roads.

If you're seeing the latter behaviors go the the Routing page and study
the preferences and options there a little. You basically want it to
either always use Follow Roads or to offer you a choice each time you
activate a route.

> I have the city maps loaded and it can see what street i'm on and what
> streets are coming up. I have tried reloading the maps, still no
> luck.

What are "city maps" are they from City Navigator? Those are
autorouting maps. If you loaded maps from MetroGuide, they will not
autoroute on your GPS. only on a laptop install. But you should still
be able to autoroute on the roads on the base map.

> I'm hoping I just have something setup incorrectly. Any help is
> appreciated. Going to try using this for geocaching once i do some
> research.

The "x" series models are pretty "powerful" units, lots of features
which means lots of menus, options, and settings to figure out.

Good luck, don't give up yet!

Jack

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Jack Erbes in Ellsworth, Maine, USA (jackerbes at adelphia dot net)
(also receiving email at jacker at midmaine dot com)

Durduran

2007-02-23, 12:33 pm

On 2007-02-23, Jack Erbes <jackerbes@adelphia.net> wrote:
>
> What are "city maps" are they from City Navigator? Those are
> autorouting maps. If you loaded maps from MetroGuide, they will not
> autoroute on your GPS. only on a laptop install. But you should still
> be able to autoroute on the roads on the base map.

Indeed that was the mistake I made when I first my Venture Cx. I had a
City Navigator I bought off a garage sale, which does all that on laptop
but mysteriously did not on the unit. I did not think of the term being
"autorouting" so did not realize it from Garmin web-site either.

If this is the problem you have and if you really want to auto-route
properly with those maps, google it and you will see a whole bunch of
solutions to get City Navigator to autoroute. I did not bother doing that
yet.

ugdc

Ben

2007-02-23, 10:33 pm

My problem was that the metroguide maps have no autorouting. Thanks
for the help. I found a workaround to it.......

On Feb 23, 1:26 pm, Durduran <REMOVEMEdurdu...@REMOVEMEweb-
facstaff.sas.upenn.edu> wrote:
> On 2007-02-23, Jack Erbes <jacker...@adelphia.net> wrote:
>
>
>
>
> Indeed that was the mistake I made when I first my Venture Cx. I had a
> City Navigator I bought off a garage sale, which does all that on laptop
> but mysteriously did not on the unit. I did not think of the term being
> "autorouting" so did not realize it from Garmin web-site either.
>
> If this is the problem you have and if you really want to auto-route
> properly with those maps, google it and you will see a whole bunch of
> solutions to get City Navigator to autoroute. I did not bother doing that
> yet.
>
> ugdc

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